News: A Reader

• Presents the key theoretical debates within the sociology of news and journalism
• Fully up-to-date, presenting accepted classics with recent work
• Thirty-nine extracts, carefully-edited to maintain their essence and integrity
• Fifty contributors, including Daniel Boorstin, Noam Chomsky, and Stuart Hall

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, media studies, communication studies, and journalism

Edited by Howard Tumber, Professor of Sociology and Dean of the School of Social and Human Sciences at, City University, London

""An extremely well organised reader, containing a highly judicious selection of experts from various classic studies of news production. An indispensible teaching resource in this area" David Deacon, Loughborough University"

""Good range of articles, covering wide variety of issues. Great for introducing attributes", Clarissa Smith, Falmouth College of Arts"

Introduction
Part I: Definitions of News
Part II: Production of News
Part III: Economics of News
Part IV: Sources of News
Part V: Objectivity and Ideology of News
Index