Matt Carlson, Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era

Abstract

Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Eraprovides a thorough overview of sources of journalistic authority, updating the topic with attention to the ways that authority is perceived to be shifting in light of digital technology. It is a useful text for graduate seminars on journalism studies and provides a helpful introduction for scholars interested in studying particular aspects of authority, as it synthesizes a number of different approaches to the concept while treating it relationally and discursively.