"Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico"




The World Beyond the Headlines from the University of Chicago show

Summary: <a href="http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/events/sallieHughes.pdf"><img src="http://chiasmos.uchicago.edu/images/sallieHughes.jpg" alt="tariq ali poster" align="left"></a>A talk by Sallie Hughes, Asst. Prof. in the School of Communication at the Univ. of Miami, on her book, <i>Newsrooms in Conflict: Journalism and the Democratization of Mexico.</i> The book examines the dramatic changes within Mexican society, politics, and journalism that transformed an authoritarian media institution into many conflicting styles of journalism with very different implications for deepening democracy in the country. From the World Beyond the Headlines Series.