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Title: Global Literary Journalism

Global Literary Journalism

Exploring the Journalistic Imagination

by Richard Lance Keeble (Volume editor) John Tulloch (Volume editor)
©2012 Textbook X, 409 Pages
Media and Communication
Series: Mass Communication and Journalism, Volume 10

Summary

This text brings together the writings of more than twenty international academics to explore the rapidly expanding field of literary journalism – a term the editors view as ʻdisputed terrainʼ. Journalists from a uniquely wide range of countries and regions – including Britain, Canada, Cape Verde, Finland, India, Ireland, Latin America Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, the United States – are covered as are a range of subject areas. These are divided into sections titled Disputed Terrains: Crossing the Boundaries between Fact, Reportage and Fiction, Exploring Subjectivities: The Personal is Where We Start From, Long-form Journalism: Confronting the Conventions of Daily War Journalism, Colonialism, Freedom Struggles and the Politics of Reportage, and Transforming Conventional Genres. The collection will be of interest to students of journalism, media studies, literary studies, and culture and communication as well as all those interested in exploring the literary possibilities of journalism at its best.

Details

Pages
X, 409
Year
2012
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433118678
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433118661
Language
English
Keywords
Fiction Colonialism Politics Subjectivities Fact literary journalism media studies literary studies
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. X, 409 pp.

Biographical notes

Richard Lance Keeble (Volume editor) John Tulloch (Volume editor)

Richard Lance Keeble (PhD, City University) is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln and currently Acting Head of the Lincoln School of Journalism. He is the winner of the National Teaching Fellowship 2011 - the highest award for teachers in higher education in the UK. He is the author and editor of 21 books including The Newspapers Handbook (2005, fourth edition); Ethics for Journalists (2008, second edition); and The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, with Sharon Wheeler). He is also the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics. John Tulloch is Professor of Journalism and Head of the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Media Policy, Regulation and Ethics (CEMPRE). From 1997-2003 he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster. He has taught, designed and validated journalism programmes in a number of international settings including India, Yemen, Oman, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and nine European countries. Prof. Tulloch has edited two books and authored numerous journal articles and chapters on media subjects.

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