Deadline

200 Years of Violence Against Journalists in the United States

Elizabeth Atwood (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

318 Seiten

2025
University of Missouri Press (Verlag)
978-0-8262-2343-2 (ISBN)

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In Deadline: 200 Years of Violence against Journalists in the United States, Elizabeth Atwood offers the first comprehensive look at the history of fatal attacks against journalists in the United States between 1829 and the present. Atwood describes the political, technological, and economic context of these assaults, and includes brief biographies of the victims and accounts of what happened both them and to their assailants after the attacks.

To help us understand these attacks, Atwood presents a framework for categorizing them, built on John Nerone’s studies on assaults on American media workers. Atwood categorizes attacks against journalists as attacks against individuals, ideas, and media institutions, and undertaken to suppress reporting on certain topics and in the context of wars and other international or conflicts. Crucially, Deadline utilizes this framework to offer possible solutions to the issue of violence against journalists.

Atwood was inspired to explore the pressing issue of violence against American journalists after the tragic death of one of her colleagues at the Baltimore Sun, Rob Hiaasen, in the Capital Gazette shooting in 2018. Throughout, she demonstrates that distrust of the media and violence against the press in the United States are hardly new developments. Her work examines how intimidation, violence, and censorship have, in fact, been used against the American press since both its and the nation’s founding.

Elizabeth Atwood spent nearly thirty years as a newspaper reporter and editor, including twenty-two years at the Baltimore Sun. Her first book, Marguerite Harrison, America’s First Female Foreign Intelligent Agent, was published by Naval Institute Press in 2020. Currently, Atwood is Associate Professor of journalism at Hood College in Frederick, Maryland, where her research focuses on the relationship between the news media and political and social revolutions. Her research into fatal assaults on journalists in the United States was awarded first place prize for a faculty paper in the History Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication in 2021. The paper was published in Journalism History in 2023. She also has written articles for the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, American Journalism, and Newspaper Research Journal. She holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Virginia and a Ph.D. in public communication from the University of Maryland, where her doctoral dissertation examined the operations of four Moscow newspapers following the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.

List of Illustrations/ xi
Acknowledgements/ xv
Introduction/ 3
Chapter 1: Attacks Against Individuals/ 17
Chapter 2: Attacks Against Ideas/ 59
Chapter 3: Attacks in Wars and Other Conflicts/ 101
Chapter 4: Attacks to Stop Reporting/ 137
Chapter 5: Attacks Against the Media Institution/ 175
Chapter 6: Search for Solutions/ 201
Conclusion/ 231
Appendix: Journalists Killed Because of Their Work/ 237
Notes/ 243
Selected Bibliography/ 279
Index/ 289

Erscheinungsdatum	27.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Journalism in Perspective
Zusatzinfo	35 illus.
Verlagsort	Missouri
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8262-2343-5 / 0826223435
ISBN-13	978-0-8262-2343-2 / 9780826223432
Zustand	Neuware