Social meanings of news: a text-reader

I. Introduction. A framework for thinking about news. The sociology of news production / Michael Schudson

Has communication explained journalism? / Barbie Zelizer

Professional mass communicators / James S. Ettema and D. Charles Whitney with Daniel B. Wackman. II. News as social production. Selecting news : the individual gatekeeper. A new gatekeeping model / Pamela J. Shoemaker

The "gate keeper" : a case study in the selection of news / David Manning White

Ms. Gates takes over : an updated version of a 1949 case study / Glen L. Baske

Refining the gatekeeping metaphor for local television news / Dan Berkowitz

Structure and constraints on community newspaper gatekeepers / G.A. Donohue, C.N. Olien, and P.J. Tichenor. Organizing news : news as a workplace product. Social control in the newsroom : a functional analysis / Warren Breed

News organizations : conflict as a crafted cutural norm / Charles R. Bantz

News reporting and professionalism : some constraints on the reporting of the news / John Soloski

Science writers at work / Sharon Dunwoody. Professionalizing news : news as journalists' norms and routines. Making news by doing work : routinizing the unexpected / Gary Tuchman News as purposive behavior : on the strategic use of routine events, accidents and scandals / Harvey Molotoch and Marilyn Lester

News and nonevents : making the visible invisible / Mark Fishman

Routines and the making of oppositional news / Nina Eliasoph.

Selling news : news as economic entity. Boundaries of journalistic autonomy / J. Herbert Altschull

The news factory / Charles R. Bantz, Suzanne McCorkle and Roberta C. Baade

The first stage of news production : learning what's happening / John H. McManus

The competitive ethos in television newswork / Matthew C. Ehrlich. III. News as text. Telling news : news as familiar story. Mythic elements in television news / Robert Rutherford Smith

Myth, chronicle and story : exploring the narrative qualities of news / S. Elizabeth Bird and Robert W. Dardenne

When technology fails : the drama of airline crashes in network television news / Richard C. Vincent, Bryan K. Crow and Dennis K. Davis

Non-routine news and newswork : exploring what-a-story / Dan Berkowitz

The rape of Mike Tyson : race, the press and symbolic types / Jack Lule. Ideology and news : news as social power. Journalists as intepretive communities / Barbie Zelizer

The news paradigm and the ideology of objectivity : a socialist at the Wall street journal / Stephen D. Reese

News of battering / Marian Meyers

Press rites and race relations : a study of mass-mediated ritual / James Stewart Ettema

Science, technology and risk coverage of a community conflict / Cynthia-Lous Coleman.