Contemporary journalism's most appropriate cultural role is to stimulate and legitimize dialogue about public controversy. To do so, say these authors, it should redefine itself as a forum for disciplined and informed conversation.
Foreword: Making the News Relevant to Democracy by John J.
Pauly
Introduction
Reconsidering Journalism: News within a Democratic Dialogue
The Conversation of Journalism: A Metaphor for News
News and Realities: Exploring Practice and Promise
Ecumenical Journalism: The Multicultural and Multidisciplinary
Commons
Connecting with Community: Journalism and Responsibility
The Listening Role for Journalism: A Place in Public
Conversation
Newstelling: Once upon a Time in Journalism
Journalism's Emerging Agenda: Toward a Journalism that
Communicates
Index
ROB ANDERSON is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in
the Department of Communication at Saint Louis University. He is
the author of Students as Real People: Interpersonal Communication
and Education (1979)
-author of Before the Story: Interviewing and Communication Skills
for Journalists (1989), Questions of Communication: A Practical
Introduction to Theory (1993), and Accounting and Communication
(forthcoming) and co-editor of The Reach of Dialogue: Confirmation,
Voice, and Community (forthcoming).
ROBERT DARDENNE is Associate Professor at the School of Mass
Communications at the University of South Florida at St.
Petersburg. He has also had a distinguished career as an
investigative reporter, writer, and editor in New York, Washington,
D.C., Louisiana, and Mexico City. His writing has appeared in the
Journal of American Culture and in Media, Myths and Narratives,
edited by James Carey (1988).
GEORGE M. KILLENBERG is Professor in the School of Mass
Communications at the University of South Florida at St.
Petersburg. He is the author of Public Affairs Reporting: Covering
the News in the Information Age (1992), and co-author, with Rob
Anderson, of Before the Story: Interviewing and Communication
Skills for Journalists (1989).
?The authors of this tasty little volume have set for themselves
the difficult task of trying to articulate the role and potential
of a form of journalism they call 'conversational journalism.' All
told they have made a useful contribution....It deserves to be
critically read by both journalism students and practicing
professionals.?-Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
"The authors of this tasty little volume have set for themselves
the difficult task of trying to articulate the role and potential
of a form of journalism they call 'conversational journalism.' All
told they have made a useful contribution....It deserves to be
critically read by both journalism students and practicing
professionals."-Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
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