Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : When trauma shapes the news / Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan -- Part I: 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 ; Mediating catastrophe: September 11 and the crisis of the other / Roger Silverstone -- Part II: 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 ; "Our duty to history" : newsmagazines and the national voice / Carolyn Kitch ; Covering Muslims : journalism as cultural practice / Karim H. Karim -- "Why do they hate us?" : seeking answers in the pan-Arab news coverage of 9/11 / Noha Mellor -- Part III: The changing boundaries of journalism. Reweaving the internet : online news of September 11 / Stuart Allan ; Converging into irrelevance? Supermarket tabloids in the post-9/11 world / S. Elizabeth Bird ; Media fundamentalism: the immediate response of the UK national press to terrorism from 9/11 to 7/7 / Michael Bromley and Stephen Cushion ; Television agora and agoraphobia post-September 11 / Simon Cottle ; "Our ground zeros" : diaspora, media and memory / Marie Gillespie -- Part IV: 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 -- Afterword / Phillip Knightley.