Description

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Bringing together academics and news industry professionals, this daring book investigates and offers solutions to significant problems with the productive functioning of the mainstream news media. Each chapter offers a pathway for improvement for individual reporters, the institution more broadly, and the news consumer.

About the Author

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Jim A. Kuypers is professor of communication in the School of Communication at Virginia Tech. He is the author, editor, or co-author of 16 books, including Purpose, Practice, and Pedagogy in Rhetorical Criticism (winner of the Everett Lee Hunt Award for Outstanding Scholarship) and Partisan Journalism: A History of Media Bias in the United States (a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2014). He is a former co-editor for the American Communication Journal. He is the recipient of the American Communication Association's Outstanding Contribution to Communication Scholarship Award, the Southern States Communication Association's Early Career Research award, and Dartmouth College's Distinguished Lecturer Award.