Edited by Luigi Manca and Gail W. Pieper
Publisher: William Stephenson Center
Distributor:
Rinton Press
426 pages, 7x9 inches
January 2001
ISBN 1-884406-16-5
Description: In the past quarter of a century, journalism education, communication theory, and "newswork" have all changed markedly. This book reexamines the ideas of Malcolm MacLean, Jr. -- controversial director of the School of Journalism at the University of Iowa during the late 1960s -- in light of these changes. Student and teacher, administrator and newsman -- all will find a treasure of information for discussion.
As the editors Luigi Manca and Gail W. Pieper comment in their introductory chapter: "[MacLean] envisioned a new kind of journalist, a heretic, who would facilitate the communication process within society by helping all citizens to be part of public discourse. . . . And we hope a reexamination of MacLean's vision of journalism, his "heresy," will help initiate long-needed changes in the way teach--and in the way we do--journalism.