The American Journalist in the Digital Age

A Half-Century Perspective

Lars Willnat, David H. Weaver, G. Cleveland Wilhoit

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9781433128271, 9781433128288
• eBook ISBN: 9781433144332
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Antropologia culturale e sociale

More than a decade has passed since the last comprehensive survey of U.S. journalists was carried out in 2002 by scholars at Indiana University—and the news and the journalists who produce it have undergone dramatic changes and challenges. The American Journalist in the Digital Age is based on interviews with a national probability sample of nearly 1, 100 U.S. journalists in the fall of 2013 to document the tremendous changes that have occurred in U.S. journalism in the past decade, many of them due to the rise of new communication technologies and social media. This survey of journalists updates the findings from previous studies and asks new questions about the impact of new technologies and social media in the newsroom, and it includes more nontraditional online journalists than the previous studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Foreword: The “American Journalist” Studies Since the 1970s by G. Cleveland Wilhoit
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Organization of the Book
• Tables and Figures
• Introduction
• 2. Basic Characteristics of U.S. Journalists
• 3. Education and Training
• 4. Journalists in the Workplace
• 5. Professionalism: Roles, Values, and Ethics
• 6. Women Journalists
• 7. Minority Journalists
• 8. Social Media and U.S. Journalism
• 9. Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Appendix I: Methodology
• Appendix II: Questionnaire
• Name Index
• Subject Index
• About the Authors