The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960

By Will Mari

Book Overview

The story of the American newsroom is that of modern American journalism. In this holistic history, Will Mari tells that story from the 1920s through the 1960s, a time of great change and controversy in the field, one in which journalism was produced in "news factories" by news workers with dozens of different roles, and not just once a day, but hourly, using the latest technology and setting the stage for the emergence later in the century of the information economy. During this time, the newsroom was more than a physical place--it symbolically represented all that was good and bad in journalism, from the shift from blue- to white-collar work to the flexing of journalism's power as a watchdog on government and an advocate for social reform. Told from an empathetic, omnivorous, ground-up point of view, The American Newsroom: A History, 1920-1960 uses memoirs, trade journals, textbooks, and archival material to show how the newsroom expanded our ideas of what journalism could and should be.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082622296X
• ISBN13: 9780826222961
• Release Date: November 2023
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 8.9"