- 'The sheer variety of reports gathered here...provide much food for thought about the human and personal factors in media change.' Ian Christie, Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London
- 'Well-known media sociologist Jeremy Tunstall has compiled an interesting and wide-ranging reader that addresses the subject of media occupations and professions across a variety of time periods and across a variety of national contexts.' Philip M Napoli, The International Journal of Media Management, Vol 4 No 3.
- 'As a chronicle of the past and present of media occupations and professions around the world… Tunstall's collection is a useful resource for academics, professionals and students.' Philip M Napoli, The International Journal of Media Management, Vol 4 No 3.
Journalists, TV producers, and other media workers are members of newly powerful occupations. Media Occupations and Professions is the first book in the field to provide a broad selection of research studies on media workers, from studies of career entry patterns and job security in the various media occupations through to studies of the media moguls and media stars, from the historical origins of the various media occupations to an analysis of the differences between media occupations in different countries.
Section 1: Origins
1. Political Journalists, M. Weber
2. The Profession of Journalism in England, 1855-1914, A. J. Lee
3. Journalists, A. M. Carr-Saunders and P. A. Wilson
4. The Washington Correspondents, L. C. Rosten
5. New Media Occupations in New York, J. Tunstall
6. D. Bordwell, J. Staiger, K. Thompson
7. H. Powdermaker
Section 2: Moguls and Barons
8. Media Moguls in Europe, J. Tunstall and M. Palmer
9. Newspaper Tigers, N. Coleridge
10. Hugenberg: Hitler's Media Mogul, J. Tunstall
11. The Soviet Union's Broadcasting Baron, R. Paasilinna
Section 3: Stars
12. Hollywood Stars and Actors, L. C. Rosten
13. Cinema Stars in South India, S. Dickey
14. Political Talkers on Radio, R. Davis and D. Owen
15. Entrepreneurial Editors of National Newspapers, J. Tunstall
Section 4: Professionalizing Media Ocuupations
16. News Agency Foreign Correspondents, O. Boyd-Barrett and T. Rantanen
17. Correspondents and Individual News Sources, J. Tunstall
18. The Changing Role of Network News Correspondents, J. S. Foote
19. The Culture of Foreign Correspondence, S. Hess
20. Foreign Correspondents, M. Pedelty
21. The Hollywood TV Producer, M. G. Cantor
22. BBC Trade Unions, T. Burns
23. Television Producers, J. Tunstall
24. The Television Labour Market in Britain, R. Paterson
25. New Technologies and Changing Work Practices in Irish Broadcasting, E. Hazelkorn
Section 5: National and Regional Overviews of Media Occupations
26. Media Occupations in Sub-Saharan Africa, G. Mytton
27. Media and Journalists in China, C.C. Lee
28. Australian Media Occupations, R. Tiffen
29. Journalists and Media Professionals in France, M. Palmer
30. Media Occupations in Russia, B. McNair
31. H. Kleinsteuber: German Media Occupations.
Jeremy Tunstall
"The sheer variety of reports gathered here...provide much food for thought about the human and personal factors in media change." Ian Christie, Professor of Film and Media History, Birkbeck College, University of London
