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Remembering A Mentor: Hanno Hardt, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

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What The Hacks Say: The Ideological Prism Of Us Journalism Texts, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

A review of United States journalism textbooks, published during the 1980s and 1990s, suggests that authors focus on essential new information and highlight a cutting edge understanding of new technologies, visual literacy, and/or cultural diversity in an effort to justify publishing new books on the practice of journalism. This review also suggests that while the vast majority of these texts clearly cover the field in a competent and thorough manner, there is a considerable amount of overlapping, repetitive information and that all of these books address the practice of journalism from an identical ideological perspective.

Williams, Raymond (1921-1988), Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

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Newswork, History, And Photographic Evidence: A Visual Analysis Of A 1930s Newsroom, Hanno Hardt, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

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"If A Problem Cannot Be Solved, Enlarge It": An Ideological Critique Of The "Other" In Pearl Harbor And September 11 New York Times Coverage, Bonnie Brennen, Margaret Duffy

Bonnie Brennen

This study uses the theoretical approach of cultural materialism, suggesting that cultural artifacts such as newspaper articles offer useful documentary evidence of representations and misrepresentations of lived experience. It compares the rhetorical strategies in New York Times news articles, editorials, columns, and advertisements used to frame Japanese-Americans in the first four months following Pearl Harbor with those used to describe Muslim and Arab-Americans following September 11. This research suggests that strategies used to frame these groups as the "Other" encourage the emergence of a specific ideological vision in the news coverage which has cultivated a climate of fear in United …

Conflicted Interests, Contested Terrain: Journalism Ethics Codes Then And Now, Lee Wilkins, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

By analyzing ethics codes, a professional statement of what constitutes good work, this essay links codes to a theory of culture and history. It considers two early journalism ethics codes and assesses the latest New York Times code in the light of philosophical theory. The paper suggests that professional tensions outlined in Good Work are reified in the Times code—and that history and culture may be less supportive of a positive outcome of this struggle over values than the insights of psychology might suggest.

A Note On Hanno Hardt's Contribution To Jci, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

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From Religiosity To Consumerism: Press Coverage Of Thanksgiving, 1905-2005, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

This research looks at the coverage of Thanksgiving during the past 100 years on 11 daily urban newspapers published in the United States in an effort to assess journalistic practices related to the coverage of routine news stories and to understand how through its coverage newspapers represent and interpret social, political, and economic change. The Thanksgiving holiday was chosen because it has been a traditional news story consistently covered each year in the press and an analysis of the coverage provides insights into the basic routines of journalism including news conventions, journalistic values, and norms over the past 100 years.

Emergence Of Class Consciousness In The American Newspaper Guild, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

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From Headline Shooter To Picture Snatcher: The Construction Of Photojournalists In American Film, 1928-39, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

The existing research that addresses the depiction of photojournalists in popular culture focuses primarily on stereotypical characters and assessments of their distorted reflections of ‘reality’. In contrast, this article considers elements of popular cultural practices produced under specific social, economic, and political conditions that may provide useful insights into the actual lived experiences of photojournalists. Framed from a cultural materialist perspective, this research suggests that American films are cultural artifacts that offer documentary evidence as to the actual working conditions of photojournalists. Specifically, this research project focuses on the construction of photojournalists in 20 American films, in which photojournalists and …

Lockouts, Protests, And Scabs: A Critical Assessment Of The "Los Angeles Herald Examiner" Strike [Article], Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

This essay uses the case of the Los Angeles Herald Examiner strike, 1967–1977, to show how a critical labor perspective offers historically grounded, politically informed, and culturally situated analyses of media practices and uses. The decade-long strike analyzed here, which has been virtually ignored by media historians, highlights the devastating economic consequences for both the newspaper and the Guild. This essay focuses on the political and cultural implications of class conflict, read through the power struggle between Los Angeles Newspaper Guild members and the Hearst-owned Herald Examiner over issues of identity, work, and economics.

The American Journalism History Reader, Bonnie Brennen, Hanno Hardt

Bonnie Brennen

The American Journalism History Reader presents important primary texts—news articles and essays about journalism from all stages of the history of the American press—alongside key works of journalism history and criticism. The volume aims to place journalism history in its theoretical context, to familiarize the reader with essential works of, and about, journalism, and to chart the development of the field.

The reader moves chronologically through American journalism history from the eighteenth-century to the present, combining classic sources and contemporary insights. Each century's section begins with a critical introduction, which establishes the social and political environment in which the media …

Construction Of Readership In Ebony, Essence, And O, The Oprah Magazine, Lee Miller, Bonnie Brennen, Brenda Edgerton-Webster

Bonnie Brennen

Miller et al examine the construction of readership in Ebony, Essence and O, The Oprah magazine, three popular magazines that purport to be a vehicle of identity and awareness for their target audience. Upon evaluation, they found that Ebony and Essence both challenge the hegemonic process with the incorporation of cultural artifacts that call upon collective memory to form reader association.

Sweat Not Melodrama: Reading The Structure Of Feeling In All The President’S Men, Bonnie Brennen

Bonnie Brennen

Thirty years after the initial break-in, Watergate holds a mythic status within the history of American journalism. Whether individuals consider Watergate the beginning of modern investigative journalism or maintain that The Washington Post’s reportage helped destroy the legitimacy of the American political process, the press’s role in this political scandal continues to inspire journalists and provide justification for First Amendment protection of the press. Quite apart from the actual experience of Watergate, this essay suggests that the most famous chronicle of this political scandal, All the President’s Men, codifies an ideology of journalism which has framed an understanding of the …