Gaye Tuchman’s Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality is a book that has made its mark on media and journalism studies alike. It combines extensive ethnographic work in diverse news media settings with sociological, phenomenological and social constructionist theorization. While the news world and newswork have changed significantly since Tuchman’s studies were conducted in the 1960s and 1970s, many of the ideas on news live on, and so do the ways in which Tuchman scrutinizes and theorizes work as well as ideas. Tuchman views newswork as a theoretical activity, which, like research, utilizes categorization. She asks: “How does the media construct reality?”, and answers using concepts such as frame, facticity, news net, time, space, tradition, and ideology. Tuchman ultimately shows that we need to study work in order to understand ideas, and vice versa, and elaborates on a theory of knowledge that reaches far beyond news.