The events of September 11 continue to resonate in powerful, yet sometimes unexpected ways. For many journalists, the crisis has decisively recast their sense of the world around them. Familiar notions of what it means to be a journalist, how best to practice journalism, and what the public can reasonably expect of journalists in the name of democracy, have been shaken to their foundations. Journalism After September 11 examines how the traumatic attacks of that day continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the United States and Britain.
Barbie Zelizer is Chair of Communication at Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Covering the Body (1992), Remembering to Forget, and Visual Culture and the Holocaust (2001). Stuart Allan is Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the University of West of England. He is the author of Theorizing Culture (1995), News Culture (1999) and editor of News, Gender and Power (1998).