The Invention of Journalism Ethics, First Edition: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond (McGill-Queen’s Studies in the Hist of Id) (Volume 38) - Softcover

Ward, Stephen J.A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0773528113 ISBN 13: 9780773528116

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Stephen Ward argues that given the emphasis in the news media on interpretation, analysis, and perspective, journalists and the public need a theory of objectivity - pragmatic objectivity - to enable them to recognize and avoid biased and unbalanced reporting.

About this title

About the Author:

Stephen J.A. Ward is associate professor of journalism ethics, University of British Columbia, and a former Canadian Press foreign correspondent for Europe and the Middle East.

Review:

"This tightly written tour de force will be the authoritative work on objectivity and journalism." Clifford G. Christians, communications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Invention of Journalism Ethics promises to stimulate new research and new thinking about the professional standards to which journalists should aspire in this age of rapidly changing technology and global communications." Fred Fletcher, political science, York University

About this edition

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0773528113
• ISBN 13: 9780773528116
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368