Overview
- Addresses an important need to help readers better navigate the growing chasms between different understandings of journalism
- Explores the rhetorical battles and the ideological fronts that have shaped and continue to shape our world, to give a more nuanced understanding of the current polarized political and media climates
- Accomplishes a unique examination of historical context by way of several distinct case studies that contain common threads
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This book explores Cold War journalism and journalists as threat, representing ‘enemy’ systems and ideologies. The book also examines Cold War aspirations of forging transnational journalistic connections across the Iron Curtain as well as finding common journalistic ground within the East and West blocs. The book shines a critical light on overly idealistic visions for that journalistic common ground, drawing on primary archival source material to investigate journalists and reporting work, journalistic content and journalistic venues during the Cold War era. This is not a book about traditional war correspondence – rather, it is about the rhetorical battles and the ideological fronts that have shaped and continue to shape our world. By fully understanding how journalism and journalists have intersected with hostile barriers and divisions in the past, we can have a more nuanced understanding of the current global media environment.
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About the author
Kevin Grieves is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Whitworth University, USA. He is author of Journalism Across Boundaries: The Promises and Challenges of Transnational and Transborder Journalism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012). He has published a number of scholarly articles on Cold War journalism history.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Cold War Journalism
Book Subtitle: Between Cold Reception and Common Ground
Authors: Kevin Grieves
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65640-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-65639-3Published: 30 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-65640-9Published: 29 April 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 134
Topics: Journalism, Media and Communication