This book argues that journalism is a more recent invention than most authors have acknowledged so far. The profession of the journalist and the journalistic di

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The story of the man who transformed The Wall Street Journal and modern media In 1929, Barney Kilgore, fresh from college in small-town Indiana, took a sleepy,

An innovative theory of pragmatic objectivity to guide journalism today.

This history of Chicago journalism is framed against the larger landscape of American media and the ways in which technology and mergers have altered news gathe