American Ways

A History of U.S. Journalism

By: Ford Risley, Ashley Walter

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Hardcover | 4 June 2024

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200 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54

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This book traces the history of American journalism, from the first Colonial newspapers to today’s news conglomerates. It is a narrative and analytical survey that draws on many standard works, including the author's own research. It explores all forms of the news media: newspapers, magazines, radio, television, and digital.

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Risley and Walter deliver a taut, clear overview of American journalism. Their book chronologically presents what the authors call the founding, public, commercial, expanding, alternative, and digital presses. Licensing, literacy, newspapers, censorship, prior restraint, Benjamin Franklin, and the Zenger trial impacted Colonial journalism. Revolutionary and early republican publications led to the party press. From the early 1830s through the Civil War, the penny press, telegraph, Associated Press, and magazines flourished, along with the abolitionist and Black presses. Highly successful commercial newspapers, including yellow journalism and the muckraking stripe, followed. American journalism expanded through 1950 via tabloids and suffrage, Black, and foreign-language presses. Henry Luce’s media empire thrived, as did leading newspaper columnists. Radio, television, and, eventually, digital news coverage became powerful media forces, both in peacetime and during conflagrations. An interesting section on the alternative press covers McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam, Watergate, feminism, PBS, and CNN…. Recommended. General readers.

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