Includes index.

Contents: Introduction: Early development -- History and growth of journalism -- Characteristics of journalism -- Differences in journalistic practice -- The authority and self-definition of journalism: Some background about "the problem" -- Preparing the next generation of journalists -- Journalism in the new millennium: Oral history and the new century -- Organizational theory to make sense of change -- Challenges to research: questioning what we know -- Eleven basic GS ideas and their relevance to journalism and media ethics -- Journalism professionalization and orientation -- Technology and journalism research: Introduction -- Science-technology induced development and environment -- Online journalism -- The role of information technologies -- Science and technology reporting -- Evolution of journalism: Introduction -- Journalists are communicators -- The difference between history and journalism -- Conceptions of journalistic roles -- Function of journalism in coverage -- Evolution and purpose of codes of journalism -- Journalism and the news: Introduction -- Some of the species of journalism -- Public affairs and personal affairs journalism -- Changing styles of news -- Political engagement and the audience for news -- Role of journalism in a Democracy: Role of the government agencies -- Public sphere and democracy -- Democracy and public participation -- Democracy as context -- Democracy and free press in journalism -- Mass communications and journalism: Meta-analyses of mass communication research -- The importance of communication scholars researching the internet -- The internet as a mass medium.