CMN 1160 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Joseph Howe, The News Letter, Citizen Journalism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 1160
• Professor: Daniel Pare

Document Summary

Industrialization led to the intro to steam presses (printing now steam operated so we can make. Westward growth period (1858-1900): dawn of yellow journalism. Three models of journalism: market model, advocacy model, public trust or trustee model. Journalists serve the public by providing what the public demands: please audiences that advertisers find attractive, newsroom = business office (i. e. most local television news) Journalists are apart of media organization & what they do as journalists is not to inform public but to giving audiences what they want with the objective of not informing the public but eyeballs to advertisers. Journalists as agents for transmitting news to the public from the perspectives of political parties, advocacy organizations. Journalists provide news that citizens should know: advancing party lines, promoting social movements, difference between fox news and msnbc specific perspectives are taken with each news company. Journalists = trustees of the public interest trustees, they have our best interest (fringing on objectivity)