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Profile Pieces - Journalism and the 'Human Interest' Bias (Paperback)
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Profile Pieces - Journalism and the 'Human Interest' Bias (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Research in Journalism
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This book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of
profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of
increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts
between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing
nature of journalism itself. While the subject, often through the
medium of their press representative, struggles to retain control
of the interview space, the journalist seeks to subvert it. This
interesting and multi-layered interaction, however, has rarely been
subject to critical scrutiny, partly because profiles have
traditionally been regarded as public relations exercises or as
'soft' journalism. However, chapters in this volume reveal not only
that profiling has, historically, taken many different forms, but
that the idea of the interview as a contested space has
applications beyond the subject of celebrated individuals. The
volume looks at the profile's historical beginnings, at the
contemporary manufacture of celebrity versus the 'ordinary', at
profiling communities, countries and movements, at profiling the
destitute, at sporting personalities and finally at profiling and
trauma.
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