Journalism After September 11

Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan, Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2011
• ISBN:
  9781136739835
• Edition: 2
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Journalism
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Praise for the first edition: This collection of essays comes mainly from academics but nobody should bridle at theorists lecturing practitioners. They properly challenge the way September 11th was reported - in a way that's both an endorsement of the role of the media and a wake-up call on its failures... anyone interested in our trade should read it.' - Roger Mosey, Ariel 'A thoughtful and engaging examination of the effects of 9/11 on the field of journalism. Its unique aim is to discuss the impact of the attack as a personal trauma and its current and future effects on journalism and the reporting of the news... highly recommended.' - Library Journal

Journalism After September 11 examines how the traumatic attacks of that day continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the United States and Britain. Familiar notions of what it means to be a journalist, how best to practice journalism, and what the public can reasonably expect of journalists in the name of democracy, were shaken to their foundations.

Ten years on, however, new questions arise regarding the lasting implications of that tragic day and its aftermath.

Bringing together an internationally respected collection of scholars and media commentators, Journalism After September 11 addresses topics such as: journalism and public life at a time of crisis; broadsheet and tabloid newspaper coverage of the attacks; the role of sources in shaping the news; reporting by global news media such as CNN; Western representations of Islam; current affairs broadcasting; news photography and trauma; the emotional well-being of reporters; online journalism; as well as a host of pertinent issues around news, democracy and citizenship.

This second edition includes four new chapters – examining Arabic newspaper reporting of the attacks, the perceptions of television audiences, national magazine coverage of the ensuing crisis, and the media politics of 'othering' – as well as revised chapters from the first edition and an updated Introduction by the co-editors. A foreword is provided by Victor Navasky and an afterword by Phillip Knightley.

This book is dedicated to the memory of all those lost in the events of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath

Contents

List of contributors

Foreword
Victor Navasky

Introduction: when trauma shapes the news
Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan

PART I
The trauma of September 11

1 September 11 in the mind of American journalism
Jay Rosen

2 What's unusual about covering politics as usual
Michael Schudson

3 Photography, journalism, and trauma
Barbie Zelizer

4 Mediating catastrophe: September 11 and the crisis of the other
Roger Silverstone

PART II
News and its contexts

5 American journalism on, before, and after September 11
James W. Carey

6 September 11 and the structural limitations of US journalism
Robert W. McChesney

7 “Our duty to history”: newsmagazines and the national voice
Carolyn Kitch

8 Covering Muslims: journalism as cultural practice
Karim H. Karim

9 “Why do they hate us?”: seeking answers in the pan-Arab news coverage of 9/11
Noha Mellor

PART III
The changing boundaries of journalism

10 Reweaving the Internet: online news of September 11
Stuart Allan

11 Converging into irrelevance?: supermarket tabloids in the post-9/11 world
S. Elizabeth Bird

12 Media fundamentalism: the immediate response of the UK national press to terrorism—from 9/11 to 7/7
Michael Bromley and Stephen Cushion

13 Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11
Simon Cottle

14 “Our ground zeros”: diaspora, media, and memory
Marie Gillespie

PART IV
Reporting trauma tomorrow

15 Journalism, risk, and patriotism
Silvio Waisbord

16 Trauma talk: reconfiguring the inside and outside
Annabelle Sreberny

17 Journalism and political crises in the global network society
Ingrid Volkmer

18 Reporting under fire: the physical safety and emotional welfare of journalists
Howard Tumber

Afterword

Phillip Knightley

Index

Contributors

Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism in the Media School, Bournemouth University, UK. His recent books include Digital War Reporting (co-authored with D. Matheson, Polity Press, 2009), Citizen Journalism: Global Perspectives (co-edited with E. Thorsen, Peter Lang, 2009), News Culture (third edition, Open University Press, 2010), The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism (Routledge, 2010), and Keywords in News and Journalism Studies (co-authored with B. Zelizer, Open University Press, 2010).

S. Elizabeth Bird is Professor of Anthropology at the University of South Florida, USA. Her books include For Enquiring Minds: A Cultural Study of Supermarket Tabloids (University of Tennessee Press, 1992), The Audience in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2003), and The Anthropology of News and Journalism (Indiana University Press, 2009). She has published widely in media studies, with an emphasis on cultural analysis of news and audience reception.

Michael Bromley is Head of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. A former daily newspaper journalist, he has worked in a number of universities in Australia, the UK, and USA. He has published widely on journalism and the media. He is a member of the board of the Foundation for Public Interest Journalism, and was a founder co-editor of the journal Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism .

James W. Carey was a distinguished communications theorist and journalism scholar. At the time of his death in 2006, he was CBS Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University, USA. He previously was Dean of the College of Communications at the University of Illinois. Among his books were Communication as Culture (Unwin Hyman, 1989) and Media, Myths, and Narrative (Sage, 1988). Several of his essays were collected as a reader in James Carey: A Critical Reader (E. S. Munson and C. A. Warren (eds), University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

Simon Cottle is Professor and Deputy Head, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University, UK. Recent books include Mediatized Conflict: Developments in Media and Conflict Studies (Open University Press, 2006), Global Crisis Reporting: Journalism in the Global Age (Open University Press, 2009), and, with co-editor Libby Lester, Transnational Protests and the Media (Peter Lang, 2010).

Stephen Cushion is a Lecturer at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies at Cardiff University, UK. His research mainly explores political communication and journalism issues, and has been published in a wide range of international journals. Most recently he co-edited (with Justin Lewis) The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives (Peter Lang, 2010).

Marie Gillespie is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK, where she is also Director of the Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change. Her research interests focus on issues of diaspora and transnationalism in relation to transformations in communications and media forms and technologies, as well as questions of social and cultural change. Recent research projects include a study of the mediation of the attacks of 9/11 and responses of transnational audiences, and also an exploration of the politics of security via a collaborative ethnography of multilingual news cultures in UK cities.

Karim H. Karim is Co-Director of the Institute of Ismaili Studies, London, UK, and Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, of which he is the former Director. His publications include The Media of Diaspora (Routledge, 2003) and Islamic Peril: Media and Global Violence (Black Rose Books, 2003), for which he won the Robinson Prize. Karim has also published widely on issues of the social impact of communications technology, ethnicity, race and media, multiculturalism policy, and social development in Muslim societies, and has delivered several distinguished lectures.

Carolyn Kitch is Professor of Journalism in the School of Communications and Theater at Temple University, USA. She serves as the school's Director of International Studies and previously directed its Mass Media and Communication Doctoral Program. Her books include The Girl on the Magazine Cover: The Origins of Visual Stereotypes in American Mass Media (University of North Carolina Press, 2001), Pages from the Past: History and Memory in American Magazines (University of North Carolina Press, 2005), and Journalism in a Culture of Grief, co-authored with Janice Hume (Routledge, 2008).

Phillip Knightley AM was a special correspondent for the Sunday Times (1965–85). He was British Press Awards Journalist of the Year (1980 and 1988). He is the author of ten non-fiction books, including The First Casualty (on war and propaganda), published in eight languages. He has lectured on journalism, law, war, and espionage at the City University London, Manchester University, the University of Dusseldorf, Penn State, UCLA, Stanford, the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and at the RMA Sandhurst. He is currently Visiting Professor of Journalism at Lincoln University, England. He was born in Australia but has worked most of his life in Britain. He divides his time between Britain, Australia, and India.

Robert W. McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is the author of numerous books and his work has been translated into 25 languages. His newest book, with John Nichols, is the award-winning The Death and Life of American Journalism (Nation Books, 2010). McChesney also hosts “Media Matters,” a weekly radio program on WILL-AM in Urbana.

Noha Mellor is Reader in Media and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, Kingston University, London, UK. She is a former journalist and the author of The Making of Arab News (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), Modern Arab Journalism (Edinburgh University Press, 2007), and Arab Journalists in Transnational Media (Hampton Press, 2011).

Victor Navasky is the former Publisher and Editorial Director of The Nation magazine. He is also Delacorte Professor of Magazine Journalism at Columbia University, where he directs the George T. Delacorte Center for Magazine Journalism. He is on the board of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He is the chairman of the Columbia Journalism Re...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Journalism After September 11
• Communication and Society
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Dedication 1
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Foreword
• Introduction: when trauma shapes the news
• Part I The trauma of September 11
• 1 September 11 in the mind of American journalism
• 2 What’s unusual about covering politics as usual
• 3 Photography, journalism, and trauma
• 4 Mediating catastrophe: September 11 and the crisis of the other
• Part II News and its contexts
• 5 American journalism on, before, and after September 11
• 6 September 11 and the structural limitations of US journalism
• 7 “Our duty to history”: newsmagazines and the national voice
• 8 Covering Muslims: journalism as cultural practice
• 9 “Why do they hate us?”: seeking answers in the pan-Arab news coverage of 9/11
• Part III The changing boundaries of journalism
• 10 Reweaving the Internet: online news of September 11
• 11 Converging into irrelevance?: supermarket tabloids in the post-9/11 world
• 12 Media fundamentalism: the immediate response of the UK national press to terrorism—from 9/11 to 7/7
• 13 Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11
• 14 “Our ground zeros”: diaspora, media, and memory
• Part IV Reporting trauma tomorrow
• 15 Journalism, risk, and patriotism
• 16 Trauma talk: reconfiguring the inside and outside
• 17 Journalism and political crises in the global network society
• 18 Reporting under fire: the physical safety and emotional welfare of journalists
• Afterword
• Index