num_pages: 340
description: The Year that Defined American Journalism explores the succession of remarkable and decisive moments in American journalism during 1897 – a year of significant transition that helped redefine the profession and shape its modern contours. This defining year featured a momentous clash of paradigms pitting the activism of William Randolph Hearst's participatory 'journalism of action' against the detached, fact-based antithesis of activist journalism, as represented by Adolph Ochs of the New York Times , and an eccentric experiment in literary journalism pursued by Lincoln Steffens at the New York Commercial-Advertiser . Resolution of the three-sided clash of paradigms would take years and result ultimately in the ascendancy of the Times' counter-activist model, which remains the defining standard for mainstream American journalism. The Year That Defined American Journalism introduces the year-study methodology to mass communications research and enriches our understanding of a pivotal moment in media history.
language: English
title: The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms
titlecomplete: The Year That Defined American Journalism: 1897 and the Clash of Paradigms
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Routledge