Global Literary Journalism: Exploring the Journalistic Imagination - Paperback

by Lee Becker (Other), Richard Lance Keeble (Editor), John Tulloch (Editor)

This text brings together the writings of more than twenty international academics to explore the rapidly expanding field of literary journalism - a term the editors view as ʻdisputed terrainʼ. Journalists from a uniquely wide range of countries and regions - including Britain, Canada, Cape Verde, Finland, India, Ireland, Latin America Norway, Sweden, the Middle East, the United States - are covered as are a range of subject areas. These are divided into sections titled Disputed Terrains: Crossing the Boundaries between Fact, Reportage and Fiction, Exploring Subjectivities: The Personal is Where We Start From, Long-form Journalism: Confronting the Conventions of Daily War Journalism, Colonialism, Freedom Struggles and the Politics of Reportage, and Transforming Conventional Genres. The collection will be of interest to students of journalism, media studies, literary studies, and culture and communication as well as all those interested in exploring the literary possibilities of journalism at its best.

Author Biography

Richard Lance Keeble (PhD, City University) is Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln and currently Acting Head of the Lincoln School of Journalism. He is the winner of the National Teaching Fellowship 2011 - the highest award for teachers in higher education in the UK. He is the author and editor of 21 books including The Newspapers Handbook (2005, fourth edition); Ethics for Journalists (2008, second edition); and The Journalistic Imagination: Literary Journalists from Defoe to Capote and Carter (2007, with Sharon Wheeler). He is also the joint editor of Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics.
John Tulloch is Professor of Journalism and Head of the School of Journalism at the University of Lincoln. He is Co-Director of the Centre for Media Policy, Regulation and Ethics (CEMPRE). From 1997-2003 he was Chair of the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster. He has taught, designed and validated journalism programmes in a number of international settings including India, Yemen, Oman, Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and nine European countries. Prof. Tulloch has edited two books and authored numerous journal articles and chapters on media subjects.