Tributes To Fallen Journalists: The Evolution Of The Hero Myth In Journalistic Practice
Journal: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park)
Year: 2013

This dissertation explores a hero mythology in newspaper tributes to fallen journalists and examines whether these stories implicitly or explicitly encouraged risk-taking by reporters and discouraged them from acknowledging the psychological consequences of that behavior. This historical case study uses qualitative methods to analyze New York Times tributes to U.S. journalists who died from 1854 to 2012 and whose names appeared on the Journalists Memorial at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. This