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Is the distinction between "serious" and "popular" press valid? How do TV news and newspapers function within popular culture? What is (and what is not) good journalism? Contending that journalism is indeed a part of, rather than separated from, popular culture, the contributors to Journalism and Popular Culture address the limits and possibilities of journalism within the contemporary media environment. Tabloid journalism, photojournalistic practices, and the prevalence of celebrities in the popular press are among the issues addressed.Scholars and advanced students of journalism, cultural studies, media and communication studies, and popular culture will find this volume useful and a good read."Several of the writers develop serious theoretical approaches which go beyond the mere description of examples from popular journalism."

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• Part 1 Journalism as Popular Culture
• Introduction
• Popular Journalism
• Theories and Practice
• Popularity and the Politics of Information
• Part 2 Aspects of The Popular Media
• Personalities in the Popular Media
• The Aesthetics and Politics of Melodrama
• Modes of Sports Writing
• Truly Awful News on Television
• Photojournalism and the Tabloid Press
• Part 3 Popular Journalism in Practice
• How US News Media Represent Sexual Minorities
• Oliver North and the News
• The San Francisco Earthquake and the 1989 World Series

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When Tom Wolfe and his followers declared the era of "new journalism" two decades ago, they could not have envisioned the professional and academic turmoil that would result from accommodating genres that failed to follow conventional definitions of journalism. Modern journalism has become a fixture of popular culture, but who can best evaluate its basic tenets journalists or those outside the field? The editors of this fine collection, compiled from a Stockholm University colloquium, suggest journalists may not be up to the task, precisely because the field maintains "a defensive position of boundary maintenance" that prevents outside probes. Traditional journalism fails to embrace or even consider what Dahlgren calls "remainder categories" within the field: the tabloid press and "reality based television" chief among them. This division between "serious" journalism and its other subcultural genres is examined well through a historical approach, tracing the sources of this division to the stigma associated with "popular" culture as far back as the Renaissance. Collectively, these 11 essay suggest that there is not really a significant difference between "serious" journalism and its popular tabloid cousins. Especially successful are "Photojournalism the Tabloid Press" and "How US News Media Represent Sexual Minorities." Each advances "the opportunity for a constructive renewal of journalism's self-definition." Traditional journalism's very future may depend upon such a reconciliation of its populist roots with today's cultural realities. Primarily for graduate students and faculty. A. J. Silvia Jr.; University of Rhode Island

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Peter Dahlgren is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Stockholm. He is the author or editor of numerous works in Swedish and of two books in English, both of which he edited with Colin Sparks: Communication and Citizenship (Sage, 1991) and Journalism and Popular Culture (Sage, 1992).

Colin Sparks is a professor at the Centre for Communication and Information Studies at the Univeristy of Westminster and Co-Editor of Media, Culture and Society .

Anna Reading is a lecturer at Southbank University and Assistant Editor of Media, Culture and Society .