AEJMC Announces 2010 Tankard Book Award Finalists
The Tankard Book Award was conceived as a way to both honor Dr. James W. Tankard, Jr. for his journalism scholarship, creativity, and character, and celebrate books written by AEJMC members.
All
first edition books, including scholarly monographs, textbooks, and
edited collections, published during the previous calendar year by
AEJMC members are eligible for the competition. Authors and co-authors may self-nominate their
books by submitting an application and copies of the book to the Tankard Book Award selection committee.
Previous recipients of the Tankard Book Award include Pat Washburn, The African American Newspaper: Voice of Freedom (2007), Ed Alwood, Dark Days in the Press: McCarthyism Aimed at the Press (2008), and Mark Neuzil, The Environment and the Press: From Adventure Writing to Advocacy (2009).
The winner of the 2010 Tankard Book Award will be announced during the AEJMC Denver Conference on Wednesday, August 4 at 5 p.m.
Finalists are listed in alphabetical order by author.
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 Normative Theories of the Media: Journalism in Democratic Societies
by Clifford G. Christians, Illinois; Theodore L. Glasser, Stanford; Denis McQuail, East Leigh, England; Kaarle Nordenstreng, University of Tampere and Robert A. White, Mwanza, Tanzania
(University of Illinois Press, 2009)
Description
In this book, five leading scholars of media and communication take on the difficult but important task of explicating the role of journalism in democratic societies. Using Fred S. Siebert, Theodore Peterson, and Wilbur Schramm's classic Four Theories of the Press as their point of departure, the authors explore the philosophical underpinnings and the political realities that inform a normative approach to questions about the relationship between journalism and democracy, investigating not just what journalism is but what it ought to be.
The authors identify four distinct yet overlapping roles for the media: the monitorial role of a vigilant informer collecting and publishing information of potential interest to the public; the facilitative role that not only reports on but also seeks to support and strengthen civil society; the radical role that challenges authority and voices support for reform; and the collaborative role that creates partnerships between journalists and centers of power in society, notably the state, to advance mutually acceptable interests. Demonstrating the value of a reconsideration of media roles, Normative Theories of the Media provides a sturdy foundation for subsequent discussions of the changing media landscape and what it portends for democratic ideals.
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 The Origins of Television News in America: The Visualizers of CBS in the 1940s
by Mike Conway, Indiana
(Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 2009)
Description
This is the first in-depth look at the development of the
television newscast, the most popular source of news for over
forty-five years.
During the 1940s, most journalists ignored
or dismissed television, leaving the challenge to a small group of
people working above New York Citys Grand Central Terminal. Without the
pressures of ratings, sponsors, company oversight, or many viewers, the
group refused to recreate newspapers, radio, or newsreels on the new
medium. They experimented, argued, tested, and eventually settled on a
format to exploit televisions strengths. This book documents that
process, challenging common mythsincluding the importance of a popular
anchor, and televisions inability to communicate non-visual storiesand
crediting those whose work was critical in the formation of television
as a news format, and illustrating the pressures and professional
roadblocks facing those who dare question journalistic traditions of
any era.
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 Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting
by John Maxwell Hamilton, Louisiana State
(Louisiana State University Press, 2009)
Description
In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign
news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of
reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee.
Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire
expertise that home-based reporters take for granted--facility with the
local language, for instance, or an understanding of local cultures.
Adding further to the challenges, they must put news of the world in
context for an audience with little experience and often limited
interest in foreign affairs--a task made all the more daunting because
of the consequence to national security. In Journalism's Roving Eye,
John Maxwell Hamilton--a historian and former foreign
correspondent--provides a sweeping and definitive history of American
foreign news reporting from its inception to the present day and
chronicles the economic and technological advances that have influenced
overseas coverage, as well as the cavalcade of colorful personalities
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