Taking Their Political Place Journalists and the Making of An Occupation

Subjects:

• Communications » Journalism
• Political Science » American Politics/Government
• Communications » Political Communications

Reviews:

• A significant contribution to journalism history; highly recommended for all academic and professional collections.
  —Choice
• This book would seem to be most useful as a supplementary text or reference for a journalism history course in journalism and mass communications programs, or as a required text for courses in the sociology of occupations or political journalism.
  —Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
• This scholarly book, which began as a dissertation, examines the development of American journalism, explaining how work in the field was transformed into an occuipation....Still, the book's unique approach and fresh insights force readers to think, ponder, and study. Taking Political Place is a stimulating source about the field's early development.
  —Journalism History

Table of Contents:

• Illustrations
• The Journalistic Occupation and Political Communication in American History
• Journalistic Work as Occupation in Eighteenth-Century America
• Discursive Construction of Journalists as Political Communicators in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Prospectuses
• Discursive Construction of Journalists as Political Communicators in Nineteenth-Century Libel Courtrooms
• Discursive Construction of Journalistic Occupational Roles During the Era of Good Feelings
• Conclusion and Implications of Historical Study of the Journalistic Occupational Group
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index