Journalism – Great Readings
- Democratic Theory, Philosophy of the Press & Epistemology
- Political Economy, Media Sociology & Institutional Critique
- Landmark Muckraking, Investigative & Watchdog Masterworks
- Literary Journalism, Feature Writing & Narrative Nonfiction
- Platform Power, Computational Media & Contemporary Ecology
Democratic Theory, Philosophy of the Press & Epistemology
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Public Opinion | Walter Lippmann |
| The Public and Its Problems | John Dewey |
| The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere | Jürgen Habermas |
| Discovering the News: A Social History of American Newspapers | Michael Schudson |
| Objectivity as Strategic Ritual: An Examination of Newsmen's Notions of Objectivity | Gaye Tuchman |
Political Economy, Media Sociology & Institutional Critique
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media | Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky |
| The Agenda-Setting Function of Mass Media | Maxwell E. McCombs and Donald L. Shaw |
| Deciding What's News: A Study of CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Newsweek, and Time | Herbert J. Gans |
| Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business | Neil Postman |
| The Black Press, U.S.A. | Roland E. Wolseley |
Landmark Muckraking, Investigative & Watchdog Masterworks
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases | Ida B. Wells-Barnett |
| The History of the Standard Oil Company | Ida M. Tarbell |
| Hiroshima | John Hersey |
| All the President's Men | Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward |
| Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup | John Carreyrou |
| She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement | Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey |
Literary Journalism, Feature Writing & Narrative Nonfiction
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| Politics and the English Language | George Orwell |
| In Cold Blood | Truman Capote |
| Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion |
| The New Journalism | Tom Wolfe and E.W. Johnson (eds.) |
| Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72 | Hunter S. Thompson |
Platform Power, Computational Media & Contemporary Ecology
| Title | Author(s) |
|---|---|
| The Platform Society: Public Values in a Connective World | José van Dijck, Thomas Poell, and Martijn de Waal |
| Automating the News: How Algorithms Are Rewriting the Media | Nicholas Diakopoulos |
| Network Propaganda: Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics | Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, and Hal Roberts |
| Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming | Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway |
| Ghosting the News: Local Journalism and the Crisis of American Democracy | Margaret Sullivan |