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“The best critique yet of how the media responded to September 11, 2001. It offers real insight into the challenges, compromises, successes and failures of the coverage that flowed from the attack on the Twin Towers in New York.” Jon Snow, Channel 4 News “This is not a book just for journalists but for everyone concerned about democ-racy, freedom of speech and our future. The book tackles the crucial question: what did the media’s reaction to September 11 tell us about modern media itself? All the ideological assumptions—voluntary censorship, market logic, journal-istic patriotism, big corporation dominance—are dissected and those that do not stand up are ruthlessly buried.” Phillip Knightley, author of The First Casualty The events of September 11 continue to resonate in powerful, yet sometimes unexpected ways. For many journalists, the crisis has decisively recast their sense of the world around them. Familiar notions of what it means to be a journalist, how best to practice journalism, and what the public can reasonably expect of journalists in the name of democracy, have been shaken to their foundations. Journalism after September 11 examines how the traumatic attacks of that day continue to transform the nature of journalism, particularly in the United States and Britain. It brings together an internationally respected group of scholars and media commentators to explore journalism’s present and future by engaging with such pressing issues as trauma, free speech, censorship, patriotism, impartiality, and celebrity