Becoming the News: How Ordinary People Respond to the Media Spotlight
ISBN: 9780231544764
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Reporters and reporting; Attribution of news; Journalists -- Interviews; Journalism -- Objectivity;

Becoming the News studies how ordinary people make sense of their experience as media subjects. Ruth Palmer charts the arc of the experience of "making" the news, from the events that bring an ordinary person to journalists' attention through their interactions with reporters and reactions to the news coverage and its aftermath.

Ruth Palmer is an assistant professor of communications at IE University in Madrid and Segovia. Her work has been published in Journalism , Journalism Studies , and Literary Journalism Studies . She was also a writer and editor for the Knight Case Studies Initiative at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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