This collection of 18 essays (expanded by four for this second edition) explores practices of journalism in the wake of the September 11th, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center and the
Pentagon. Editors Zelizer (communication, U. of Pennsylvania, US) and Allan (journalism, Bournemouth U., UK) frame the collection with the concept of trauma, suggesting that just as individuals
suffered lingering trauma from their experiences of September 11th, so too did the institutions of journalism, which they are in the ongoing process of working out. The papers, which
collectively contain both descriptive and normative arguments, are organized into sections concerned with immediate journalistic responses to September 11th; the social, cultural, economic, and
political contexts of American journalism before and after September 11th; forms and practices at the margins of journalism; and persistent issues of trauma and journalism (e.g. journalists at
physical risk and journalistic coverage of global political crises). Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
