
TV News Anchors and Journalistic Tradition
How Journalists Adapt to Technology
- 216 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Through the lens of TV news anchors, this book examines the impact that television news has had on traditional journalistic standards and practices. While TV news anchors boost the power, adulation, and authority of journalism in general, internally, the journalistic community feels that anchors undermine many key journalistic values. This book provides a historical overview of the impact they have had on American journalism, uncovering the changing values, codes of behavior, and boundaries of the journalistic community. In doing so, it reveals that challenges to journalistic standards provide an opportunity to engage in debate that is central to maintaining journalism's identity, and demonstrate the ability of the community to self-regulate. The result is that news anchors are kept in check by the community, and the community is prompted to reexamine itself and evolve. The book's findings also offer suggestions for thinking about how journalists are dealing with the latest technological challenges posed by the internet and mobile technology.
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Table of contents
- Table of Contents
- Preface ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- CHAPTER 1: Introduction 1
- CHAPTER 2: The Emergence of Television Journalists and the Rise of the Anchor 13
- CHAPTER 3: Appearance, Personality, and Emotion of Newsroom Anchors 49
- CHAPTER 4: The Impact and Consequences of Anchors’ Appearance, Personality, and Emotion 95
- CHAPTER 5: How Journalism Restores Order When Its Borders of Practice Are Crossed 147
- CHAPTER 6: Conclusion: What Community Discussion about Anchors Reveals about Journalism 169
- Appendix 1 181
- Appendix 2 185
- Bibliography 187
- Index 211