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Deciding what's news A study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek, and Time

Herbert J Gans

For ten years, Herbert J. Gans spent considerable time in four major television and magazine newsrooms, observing and talking to the journalists who choose the national news stories that inform America about itself. Writing during the golden age of journalism, Gans included such headline events as t...

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The Ezra Klein Show

It was presented as a sociological ethnography where the author spent months inside newsrooms observing journalists, providing an outsider's valuable perspective on newsroom practices.

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A third book is called Deciding What's News by Herbert Ganz, who's also a sociologist. They go into newsrooms and they hang out there for months and they watch how people act. But they are not journal...

— Episode: It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutr...

Episode: It's Time for the Media to Choose: Neutrality or D...

It was presented as a sociological ethnography where the author spent months inside newsrooms observing journalists, providing an outsider's valuable perspective on newsroom practices.

"

A third book is called Deciding What's News by Herbert Ganz, who's also a sociologist. They go into newsrooms and they hang out there for months and they watch how people act. But they are not journalists themselves. They come from outside the profession.

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