Contents

Foreword: Journalism as a Democratic Art, Cole C. Campbell

Introduction: The Idea of Public Journalism, Theodore L. Glasser

I. The Challenge of Public Journalism

2. The Action of the Idea: Public Journalism in Built Form, Jay Rosen

3. In Defense of Public Journalism, James W. Carey

4. The Common Good as First Principle, Clifford G. Christians

5. Making Readers Into Citizens—The Old Fashioned Way, Thomas C. Leonard

II. The Challenge for Public Journalism

6. Public Journalism and Democratic Theory: Four Challenges, John Durham Peters

7. What Public Journalism Knows about Journalism But Doesn't Know about "Public," Michael Schudson

8. Journalism and the Sociology of Public Life, John Pauly

9. Making the Neighborhood Work: The Improbabilities of Public Journalism, Barbie Zelitzer

Appendix A: On Evaluating Public Journalism, Steven H. Chaffee and Michael McDevitt

Appendix B: Reinventing the Press for the Age of Commercial Appeals: A Critical Review of Selected Books and Monographs, Hanno Hardt