| Discovering the news: A social history of American newspapers M Schudson Basic books, 1981 | 5521 | 1981 |
| The science of fake news DMJ Lazer, MA Baum, Y Benkler, AJ Berinsky, KM Greenhill, F Menczer, ... Science 359 (6380), 1094-1096, 2018 | 5397 | 2018 |
| The sociology of news M Schudson, JC Alexander (No Title), 2003 | 3109 | 2003 |
| The good citizen: A history of American civic life M Schudson (No Title), 1998 | 2765 | 1998 |
| The power of news M Schudson Harvard University Press, 1995 | 2616 | 1995 |
| Advertising, the uneasy persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its dubious impact on American society M Schudson Routledge, 2013 | 2290 | 2013 |
| The objectivity norm in American journalism M Schudson Journalism 2 (2), 149-170, 2001 | 1991 | 2001 |
| The sociology of news production M Schudson Media, culture & society 11 (3), 263-282, 1989 | 1293* | 1989 |
| Watergate in American memory: How we remember, forget, and reconstruct the past M Schudson Basic Books, 1992 | 1106 | 1992 |
| How culture works: Perspectives from media studies on the efficacy of symbols M Schudson Theory and society, 153-180, 1989 | 940 | 1989 |
| Why conversation is not the soul of democracy M Schudson Critical Studies in Media Communication 14 (4), 297-309, 1997 | 889 | 1997 |
| Why democracies need an unlovable press M Schudson Polity, 2008 | 884 | 2008 |
| The reconstruction of American journalism L Downie Jr, M Schudson Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 2009 | 720 | 2009 |
| The news media as political institutions M Schudson Annual review of political science 5 (1), 249-269, 2002 | 715 | 2002 |
| Objectivity, professionalism, and truth seeking in journalism M Schudson, C Anderson The handbook of journalism studies, 108-121, 2009 | 572 | 2009 |
| Rethinking popular culture: contempory perspectives in cultural studies C Mukerji, M Schudson Univ of California Press, 1991 | 569 | 1991 |
| The politics of narrative form: The emergence of news conventions in print and television M Schudson Daedalus, 97-112, 1982 | 495 | 1982 |
| The sociology of news production revisited M Schudson Mass Media and Society/Edward Arnold, 1991 | 489 | 1991 |
| Dynamics of distortion in collective memory M Schudson Memory distortion: How minds, brains, and societies reconstruct the past 346 …, 1995 | 468 | 1995 |
| Was there ever a public sphere? If so, when?: reflections on the American case M Schudson | 465 | 1992 |
