About the Book: Reckoning : Journalisms Limits and Possibilities
How do journalists know what they know? Who gets to decide what good journalism
is and when its done right? What sort of expertise do journalists have, and what
role should and do they play in society? Until a couple of decades ago,
journalists rarely asked these questions, largely because the answers were
generally undisputed. Now, the stakes are rising for journalists as they face
real-time critique and audience pushback for their ethics, news reporting, and
relevance. Yet the crises facing journalism have been narrowly defined as the
result of disruption by new technologies and economic decline.