The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Global Perspectives Book

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction s. Elizabeth Bird 1

The Anthropology of News and Journalism: Why Now?

Part 1 Ethnography of News Production

1 News Production, Ethnography, and Power: On the Challenges of Newsroom-Centricity Karin wahl-Jorgensen 21

2 U.S. Newsworld: The Rule of Text and Everyday Practices of Editing the World Zeynep Devrim Gürsel 35

3 Covering the Barrier in Bethlehem: The Production of Sympathy and the Reproduction of Difference Amahi Bishara 54

4 News and Myth in Venezuela: The Press and the Chávez Revolution Joseph C. Manzelxa Leon I. Yacher 71

5 "The Camera Was My Weapon": Reporting and Representing War in Socialist Vietnam Christina Schwenkel 86

6 Empowerment through Local News Making: Studying the Media/Public Interface in India Ursula Rao 100

7 Mount Chance, Montserrat, and the Media: Global British Journalism under Local Fire Jonathan Skinner 116

8 Journalism as Fieldwork: Propaganda, Complicity, and the Ethics of Anthropology Jennifer Hasty 132

Part 2 News Practices in Everyday Life

9 News and Local Talk: Conversations about the "Crisis of Indigenous Violence" in Australia Kerry McCailum 151

10 Getting the News in New Delhi: Newspaper Literacies in an Indian Mediascape Mark Allen Peterson 168

11 Personal News and the Price of Public Service: An Ethnographic Window into the Dynamics of Production and Reception in Zambian State Radio Debra Spituinik 182

12 Gossip and Resistance: Local News Media in Transition: A Case Study from the Alentejo, Portugal Dorle Dracklé 199

13 Musical News: Popular Music in Political Movements Mark Pedelty 215

Part 3 News inthe Era of New Media

14 Making (Sense of) News in the Era of Digital Information Doming Boyer 241

15 When Common Sense No Longer Holds: The Shifting Locus of News Production in the United States Maria D. Vesperi 257

16 Salon.com and New-Media Professional Journalism Culture Adrienne Russell 270

Works Cited 283

List of Contributors 313

Index 317