This book is the culmination of more than a decade of research and writing on the nature of investigative journalism as a form of social and moral inquiry. Focusing on the work of a number of award-winning investigative reporters, James S. Ettema and Theodore L. Glasser punctuate their analysis of news and journalism with interviews with these writers and excerpts from their stories. Custodians of Conscience provides a powerful assessment and critique of the tensions and contradictions that characterize modern American journalism. It is a book that honors the rigor and importance of investigative journalism by showing how facts implicate values and by explaining why the future of news requires a deeper appreciation for the connection between human knowledge and human interest.
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The most thoughtful book in years about the intellectual assumptions behind investigative journalism.... It's hard to imagine any journalist who wouldn't do investigative reporting more thoughtfully, or any citizen who wouldn't read it more insightfully, after this two-teacher seminar.
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The authors let readers in on lots of craft talk-how investigative journalism is conducted, why it happens, what impact it has on the larger society. They demonstrate that investigative journalists simultaneously validate and shake up the prevailing social order.
(Steve Weinberg, Author of The Reporter's Handbook: An Investigator's Guide to Documents and Techniques )
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The Color of Money, Pulitzer Prize, Pam Zekman, The Intimate Interdependence, Dixie County, Skills Not Taught, The Morality of Narrative Form, Community Reinvestment Act, Boston Globe, Capitol Hill, The Great Tax Giveaway, Virgin Islands, Chicago Tribune, Pasco County, Richard Rorty, Star Tribune, Bill Dedman, Bill Marimow, Hayden White, Panama City, Progressive Era, Spoils of Power, Hilary Putnam, Internal Revenue Code, John Ullmann New!
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- Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity by Richard Rorty on 6 pages
- Reading the News by Robert Manoff on 5 pages
- News Values: Ideas for an Information Age by Jack Fuller on 5 pages
- The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation by Hayden White on 4 pages
- The Great War and Modern Memory by Paul Fussell on 4 pages
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- Getting the Whole Story: Reporting and Writing the News by Cheryl J. Gibbs on 4 pages
- The Evolution of American Investigative Journalism by James L. Aucoin in Front Matter, page 91, and Back Matter
- From Yahweh to Yahoo!: THE RELIGIOUS ROOTS OF THE SECULAR PRESS (History of Communication) by Doug Underwood in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Political Journalism: New Challenges, New Practices (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science) by Raymond Kuhn in Front Matter, and page 222
- Investigative Journalism: Context and Practice by Hugo De Burgh in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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