Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue

Ettema, James; Glasser, Theodore

ISBN 10: 0231106750 / ISBN 13: 9780231106757

Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1998

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First paperback edition, First printing. Used, with minor underlining and glossing else the book is square and tight with minor creases to the spine. Seller Inventory # 007687

Bibliographic Details

Title: Custodians of Conscience: Investigative ...

Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

Edition: First Trade Paperback Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

This book is the culmination of more than a decade of research and writing on the nature of investigative journalism as a form of social and moral inquiry. Focusing on the work of a number of award-winning investigative reporters, James S. Ettema and Theodore L. Glasser punctuate their analysis of news and journalism with interviews with these writers and excerpts from their stories. Custodians of Conscience provides a powerful assessment and critique of the tensions and contradictions that characterize modern American journalism. It is a book that honors the rigor and importance of investigative journalism by showing how facts implicate values and by explaining why the future of news requires a deeper appreciation for the connection between human knowledge and human interest.

About the Author:

JAMES S. ETTEMA is on the faculty of the Department of Communication Studies at Northwestern University. He is the editor, with D. Charles Whitney, of Individuals in Mass Media Organizations: Creativity and Constraint and Audience Making: How the Media Created the Audience.THEODORE L. GLASSER is a director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University. He is the editor of the Idea of Public Journalism and, with Charles T. Salmon, Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent.