Argues that literary journalism is no threat to fundamental news writing and that it does not place style above substance. (FL)

Offers a method for teaching students about ethical journalism and new journalism using a favorite short story and asking questions such as "How is truth in fiction different from the truth in a news story?" (SRT)

To expose a fundamental conflict in journalism between newsworthiness and objectivity (or novelty and authority) this monograph first examines the parallel between news environment and physical environment. Objectivity is defined here not as a description of the environment, but as symbols in the minds of significant publics, or…

In the interest of applying reader response theory to journalism this paper posits that readers of newspapers, like readers of literature, take an active role in making meaning from the articles they read, rather than passively accepting news as a finished, static product. Additionally, it proposes that journalism textbooks pay little attention to…