Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. News and Public Events 3
5. Assembling a Crime Wave 4
6. Creating Public Events 10
7. Studying Newswork 13
8. The Organization of This Book 16
9. The Research Setting 18
10. Purissima's Press Corps 19
11. Methodology I: Observations as an Apprentice 23
12. Methodology II: Observations as a Researcher 24
13. 2. Exposure to the News world 27
14. The Beat 27
15. The Detection of Events 30
16. Preconditions of Exposure to the Newsworld 32
17. The Beat Round 37
18. The Bureaucratic Foundations of News Exposure 44
19. 3. Seeing News Events 54
20. The Interpretation of Activities 54
21. The Uses of Phase Structures 63
22. Nonevents 76
23. 4. Grounds for Investigating the News 85
24. "Fact" and Bureaucratic Accounts 85
25. Reasons for Believing Bureaucratic Accounts 94
26. Doubting Bureaucratic Accounts 100
27. 5. Methods for Investigating and Formulating Stories 109
28. Irregularities and Missing Informations Filling-in 109
29. The Perspectival Nature of Eyentss Fact-by-Trlaogiilatlon 116
30. Fact-by-TrianguIation as a Framework for News Investigation and Story Formulation 130
31. 6. The Practice and Politics of Newswork 134
32. News, Ideology, and Legitimation 134
33. The Sources of News Ideology 140
34. The Politics of Newswork 152
35. Notes 157
36. References 167
37. Index 173