Invention of Journalism

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 discourse are the products of the emergence, during the second half of the 19th century, of a specialized field of discursive production, the journalistic field. This book analyses the emergence of journalism and examines the development of discursive norms, practices and strategies that are characteristic of this discourse.

JEAN K. CHALABY studied sociology at the Universite de Lausanne, Switzerland, and at the London School of Economics, where he completed a PhD in 1994. He is currently Research Associate at the European Institute, London School of Economics. He has conducted research on the media in Eastern Europe and has published numerous articles on comparative journalism in leading European journals.