Discovering The News

This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news” was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike t...

This instructive and entertaining social history of American newspapers shows that the very idea of impartial, objective news” was the social product of the democratization of political, economic, and social life in the nineteenth century. Professor Schudson analyzes the shifts in reportorial style over the years and explains why the belief among journalists and readers alike that newspapers must be objective still lives on.

Michael Schudson，当代美国最具影响力的媒介社会学学者之一，资深教授。现任美国加州大学（圣迭戈）传播学教授、哥伦比亚大学新闻学院教授。主要研究方向为新闻学及其历史、大众文化。著有：Discovering the News(1978)、The Power of News(1995)、The Good Citizen(1998)、The Sociology of News(2003)等多部论著。其中《发掘新闻》为他的成名作，开创了美国新闻史研究的社会科学流派，三十年来历久不衰。