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Watchdog Journalism in South America
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Watchdog Journalism in South America Paperback - 2000

by Silvio Waisbord

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  • Title Watchdog Journalism in South America
  • Author Silvio Waisbord
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition USED Good
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Columbia University Press, Jackson, Tennessee, U.S.A.
  • Date June 2000
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 58095
  • ISBN 9780231119757 / 0231119755
  • Weight 0.94 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.94 x 6.06 x 0.67 in (22.71 x 15.39 x 1.70 cm)
  • Reading level 1420
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Latin America
  • Library of Congress subjects Investigative reporting - South America
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99058476
  • Dewey Decimal Code 079.8

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From the rear cover

Since the 1980s, investigative journalism has undergone startling development in South America, where repressive regimes had long relegated such reporting to marginal publications or underground outlets. WATCHDOG JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AMERICA explores the rise of critical journalism in four countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Drawing upon interviews with journalists and editors and analyzing selected news stories from each country, Silvio Waisbord offers a unique look at the significant differences between critical reporting in developing democracies and that already in place in the United States and European democracies.

As Waisbord demonstrates, critical reporting in South America can be better understood as watchdog journalism than as investigative reporting as understood in the tradition of Anglo-American journalism. Examining the historical absence of a muckraking press, he argues that watchdog journalism represents new political and media dynamics and discusses the emergence of a new journalistic culture and its contributions to the quality of democracy and public debates about morality, truth, and accountability.

About the author

Silvio Waisbord is assistant professor in the Department of Communications at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He is the author of The Great Parade: Election Campaigns and Mass Media in Argentina, as well as numerous articles about media, politics, and globalization

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