Why Journalism Still Matters

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Introduction: where journalism came from -- 14 or 15 generations: news as a cultural form and journalism as a historical formation (2013) -- Interviewing Walter Lippmann's ghost (2016) -- Objectivity 1.0, objectivity 2.0, and post-objectivity? (unpublished) -- Going deeper into contemporary journalism -- The danger of independent journalism (2005, revised 2017) -- Belgium invades Germany (2017, unpublished) -- Journalism in a journalized society (2017, unpublished) -- The crisis in news: can you whistle a happy tune (2016) -- Short takes on journalism and democracy -- Citizenship and "The Simpsons" (2011, revised 2017) -- The multiple political roles of American Journalism (2017) -- Democracy as a slow government movement (2017, unpublished) -- Afterword -- Second thoughts: Schudson on Schudson