This unit is designed to provide a thorough history of the profession of journalism, the challenges it has had to overcome and the developmentsāfrom the printing presses to the digital age. It examines the role of journalism as an important institutional component of democratic states with particular focus on American and British journalistic developments as a contrast to the emerging practices of journalism in the East Asia region. The role of the fourth estate in emerging democracies as well as non-democracies is also covered. The unit provides a strong grounding in the history of the profession and how its role has shifted (and to what extent) into the present times. -- Course Website
Instructor: Associate Professor Stephen Barton