BOOKS DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
- Merchants of Truth: The Business of News and the Fight for Facts, by Jill Abramson
- The Powers That Be, by David Halberstam
- Justice in Plain Sight: How a Small-Town Newspaper and Its Unlikely Lawyer Opened America’s Courtrooms, by Dan Bernstein
- The Life of Kings: The Baltimore Sun and the Golden Age of the American Newspaper, edited by Frederic B. Hill and Stephens Broening
- The Return of the Moguls: How Jeff Bezos and John Henry Are Remaking Newspapers for the Twenty-First Century, by Dan Kennedy
- Why Journalism Still Matters, by Michael Schudson
- On Press: The Liberal Values That Shaped the News, by Matthew Pressman
- Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now, by Alan Rusbridger
- No Longer Newsworthy: How the Mainstream Media Abandoned the Working Class, by Christopher R. Martin
-Dead Tree Media: Manufacturing the Newspaper in Twentieth-Century North America, by Michael Stamm
- Who Owns the News?: A History of Copyright, by Will Slauter
- The News Untold: Community Journalism and the Failure to Confront Poverty in Appalachia, by Michael Clay Carey
- Democracy Without Journalism?: Confronting the Misinformation Society, by Victor Pickard
- Journalism Under Fire: Protecting the Future of Investigative Reporting, by Stephen Gillers
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