ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book. The book explores cases regarding journalism and journalists in a digital age to advance new ways for scholars to consider the journalistic field as it contends with a range of actors, their newswork, and their journalistic identities. It looks at some of the more controversial cases and iconoclastic actors positioning their work as journalists in recent years. The patterns of journalism established in the mid to late nineteenth century still influence how we think about journalism today, and how journalists think about themselves. In light of the prominent challenges to these patterns that journalists pose, the book revisits how people have understood journalism to better understand how it has carried into the twenty-first. It highlights how embedded within discursive performances of journalistic identities and journalistic roles people can find narratives of the journalistic field that extend from existing approaches of understanding it.
