From Deborah Jones at Canadian Journalist comes word that Stephen Ward has won the Harold Adams Innis award for his essential book, The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond.
The award was given Ward for the best English-language book in the social sciences by the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
I read Ward’s book earlier this year and highly recommend it to anyone interested in media — working journalist or not. Ward has done a masterful job of tracing the development of objectivity as journalism’s gold standard (in fact, the early chapters of the book are a cogent and well-written overall history of the development of mass media). And his suggestions for a new standard, pragmatic objectivity, are intriguing.
The post I wrote just after reading Ward’s book, with a fuller review, is here. The website for the book is here.
TAGS: JOURNALISM, ETHICS, STEPHEN WARD, AWARD
