The Sociology of News reviews and synthesizes not only what is
happening to journalism but also what is happening to the scholarly
understanding of journalism. In the Second Edition, each chapter of the
book has been updated to account for the radical changes that have
reshaped the news industry over the last decade. With a new chapter on
the sharp contraction of the news business in the United States since
2007, The Sociology of News examines journalism as a social
institution and analyzes the variety of forces and factors--economic,
technological, political, cultural, organizational--that shape the news
media today.