Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : when trauma shapes the news / Barbie Zelizer, Stuart Allan -- PART 1. The trauma of September 11 -- September 11 in the mind of American journalism / Jay Rosen -- What's unusual about covering politics as usual / Michael Schudson -- Photography, journalism, and trauma / Barbie Zelizer -- PART 2. News and its contexts -- American journalism on, before, and after September 11 / James W. Carey -- September 11 and the structural limitations of US journalism / Robert W. McChesney -- Making sense of the "Islamic peril" : journalism as cultural practice / Karim H. Karim -- PART 3. The changing boundaries of journalism -- Reweaving the Internet : online news of September 11 / Stuart Allan -- Taking it personally : supermarket tabloids after September 11 / S. Elizabeth Bird -- Media fundamentalism : the immediate response of the UK national press to September 11 / Michael Bromley, Stephen Cushion -- Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11 / Simon Cottle -- PART 4. Reporting trauma tomorrow -- Journalism, risk, and patriotism / Silvio Waisbord -- Trauma talk : reconfiguring the inside and outside / Annabelle Sreberny -- Journalism and political crises in the global network society / Ingrid Volkmer -- Reporting under fire : the physical safety and emotional welfare of journalists / Howard Tumber.