Barbie Zelizer published in the Journal of Communication

Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D.

Barbie Zelizer, Ph.D., the Raymond Williams Professor of Communication and Director of the Annenberg Scholars Program in Culture and Communication, published the article “Journalism in the Service of Communication” in the Journal of Communication (Volume 61, Number 1, pages 1 – 27).

 

 

This article discusses the role of journalism in the disciplinary growth of the study of communication. It traces the initial role that journalism played in communication studies' development, considers how it has taken shape differently in some of the discipline's sub-fields of inquiry, and charts how it has developed in different geographic regions. Addressing journalism's contemporary positioning around the world, the article argues that the study of communication could profit by acknowledging more fully journalism's centrality in helping keep communication studies a singular and vibrant field of academic inquiry.