Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A framework for thinking about the meanings of news. Understanding the global journalist : a hierarchy-of-influences approach / Stephen D. Reese ; What is journalism? Professional identity and ideology of journalists reconsidered / Mark Deuze ; Deconstructing journalism culture : toward a universal theory / Thomas Hanitzsch -- Cultural practice of journalism. The socially responsible existentialist : a normative emphasis for journalists in a new media environment / Jane B. Singer ; Blasphemy as sacred rite/right : "the Mohammed cartoons affair" and maintenance of journalistic ideology / Dan Berkowitz and Lyombe Eko ; The journalistic gut feeling : journalistic doxa, news habitus, and orthodox news values / Ida Schultz ; Media ritual in catastrophic time : the populist turn in television coverage of Hurricane Katrina / Frank Durham -- Making meaning in the journalistic interpretive community. War journalism and the "KIA journalist" : the cases of David Bloom and Michael Kelly / Matt Carlson ; The importance of ritual in crisis journalism / Kristina Riegert and Eva-Karin Olsson ; "Someone's gotta be in control here" : the institutionalization of online news and the creation of a shared journalistic authority / Sue Robinson ; Broader and deeper : a study of newsroom culture in a time of change / David M. Ryfe --

Repairing the journalistic paradigm. The princess and the paparazzi : blame, responsibility, and the media's role in the death of Diana / Elizabeth Blanks Hindman ; "These crowded circumstances" : when pack journalists bash pack journalism / Russell Frank ; Israeli image repair : recasting the deviant actor to retell the story / Robert L. Handley ; A paradigm in process : what the scapegoating of Vusi Mona signalled about South African journalism / Guy Berger -- News narratives as cultural text. Why peace journalism isn't news / Liz Fawcett ; "Lost boys" and the promised land : U.S. newspaper coverage of Sudanese refugees / Melinda B. Robins ; Crafting cultural resonance : imaginative power in everyday journalism / James S. Ettema ; Medea in the media : narrative and myth in the newspaper coverage of women who kill their children / Barbara Barnett -- News as collective memory. Reporting through the lens of the past : from Challenger to Columbia / Jill A. Edy and Miglena Daradanova ; Memory in journalism and the memory of journalism : Israeli journalists and the constructed legacy of haolam hazeh / Oren Meyers ; Making memories matter : journalistic authority and the memorializing discourse around Mary McGrory and David Brinkley / Matt Carlson ; Memory studies : "We were all there" : remembering America in the anniversary coverage of Hurricane Katrina / Sue Robinson.