Žurnalistika a společnost – McQuail Denis (2016)

Journalism today faces one of the greatest challenges in its history. New communication possibilities are changing the way information is disseminated, with people outside the editorial offices of large media houses increasingly getting involved. Professional journalists are losing their position as the dominant intermediaries of events around us, while the camp of those who argue that journalists are not needed at all is growing stronger. Denis McQuail, in his reflections on journalism, looks back to the past and highlights the social and political context of its development and its significance for the functioning of democracy. According to him, the transformation of journalism is related to a deeper social transformation, the consequences of which we are currently unable to reliably estimate. The book Journalism and Society presents a clear synthesis of fundamental views on the nature and mission of journalism and offers theoretical foundations for its study and reflection. Thanks to its accessible writing style, it will be appreciated not only by professionals, academic workers, and students of communication fields (or political science and sociology) but also by anyone interested in the issues surrounding the development of contemporary media.