About the Author
Theodore L. Glasser is professor of communication and director of the Graduate Program in Journalism at Stanford University. His work has appeared in a variety of publications, including Critical Studies in Mass Communication, Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Nieman Reports, The Quill, and The New York Times Book Review. Custodians of Conscience: Investigative Journalism and Public Virtue, written with James Ettema, was published in 1998 by Columbia University Press.
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His previous publications include Public Opinion and the Communication of Consent, coedited with Charles T. Salmon.
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THE IDEA OF PUBLIC JOURNALISM Contents Foreword: Journalism as a Democratic Art, Cole C. Campbell Introduction: The Idea of Public Journalism, Theodore L. Glasser I. The Challenge of Public Journalism 2. The Action of the Idea: Public Journalism in Built Form, Jay Rosen 3. In Defense of Public Journalism, James W. Carey 4. The Common Good as First Principle, Clifford G. Christians 5. Making Readers Into Citizens--The Old Fashioned Way, Thomas C. Leonard II. The Challenge for Public Journalism 6. Public Journalism and Democratic Theory: Four Challenges, John Durham Peters 7. What Public Journalism Knows about Journalism But Doesn't Know about "Public," Michael Schudson 8. Journalism and the Sociology of Public Life, John Pauly 9. Making the Neighborhood Work: The Improbabilities of Public Journalism, Barbie Zelitzer Appendix A: On Evaluating Public Journalism, Steven H. Chaffee and Michael McDevitt Appendix B: Reinventing the Press for the Age of Commercial Appeals: A Critical Review of Selected Books and Monographs, Hanno Hardt