Objectivity in Journalism
Preface
I. SOCIAL FACT EXPRESSED IN WORDS
1. On the concept of “fact”
1.1. The extended concept of “fact”
1.1.1. The “Annales” School
1.1.2. Polish reportage classics
1.1.3. Facts in Ryszard Kapuściński’s works
II. TRANSFORMING A RAW FACT INTO A RESPONSIBLE FACT
1. Subjectivisation in the description of reality
2. Assumed identity reportage
2.1. Environmental assumed identity reportage
2.2. Autobiographical assumed identity reportage
2.3. Assets and deficiencies of assumed identity reports
2.4. Seeking justification for assumed identity materials
III. COGNITIVE FUNCTIONS OF REPORTING
1. Scientific inquiry versus literary and journalistic inquiry
2. Comments on objectivity in scientific inquiry
3. Journalistic text as a reflection of reality
4. Reportage — literary, publicist or scientific genre?
IV. TOOLS OF OBJECTIVISING REALITY IN THE TEXTS OF POLISH MODERN REPORTERS
1. Reportage and sociology
2. Between journalism and literature
2.1. Character as a carrier of many biographies
2.2. Individual biography as an image of society
2.3. Fictional background
3. The process of subjectivising modern media
V. SUBJECTIVITY IN JOURNALISTIC PHOTOGRAPHY
1. Photography as an image of reality
2. The photographer as an event director
List of sources
References
Index of names
120 pages, Hardcover
