Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies
Chinese Journalists Turned YouTubers: Cases from Mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan
1st Edition
By Luwei Rose Luqiu, Yinqiao Zhao
February 24, 2026
Offering original insights into journalism's transformation in a politically complex, multilingual region, this book critically explores the rise of Chinese-speaking journalists transitioning to YouTube. This book considers how professional journalists adapt their practices to YouTube while ...
Journalistic Professionalism in Higher Education: Teaching and Defining Journalism in the UK
1st Edition
By Ato Erzan-Essien
February 18, 2026
This book provides a rich exploration of how concepts of contemporary journalistic professionalism are understood, articulated, and taught by journalism educators in higher education settings in the UK. Drawing on in-depth interviews with HE journalism instructors, the author identifies the key ...
Emirati Women Journalists: Bargaining with Patriarchy in Search of Equality
1st Edition
By Noura Al Obeidli
January 30, 2026
This book presents a rare investigation of the media landscape and gender dynamics in Emirati newsrooms, with a socio-cultural focus on the influence of tribal patriarchalism in determining Emirati women’s role as newsmakers. Shedding light on the stories of 40 Emirati and Arab expat journalists, ...
Data and Narrative in News Media: The Science of Communicating Evidence
1st Edition
By Hai L. Tran
September 30, 2025
Bringing together research from across media and psychology disciplines, this book provides an understanding of the impact of using qualitative and quantitative forms of evidence in the news. Drawing on previous studies with seemingly contradictory conclusions, the author proposes an integrative ...
Mediterranean Media Systems in the Age of Unrest: Journalism Under Attack?
1st Edition
By Theodora A. Maniou
July 04, 2025
Focusing on an oft-neglected geographical region of study, this book critically analyses the state of journalism in the European South and considers challenges that may indicate a profession under duress. Focusing on three Mediterranean media systems, Greece, Cyprus, and Malta, this book summarizes...
Global Journalism Collaborations: Worldwide Storytelling Projects in Higher Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Katherine C. Blair, Marion Coomey, Faith Sidlow
June 27, 2025
Global Journalism Collaborations offers guidance on detailed ways to create collaborative international projects in the communications and journalism fields – a hot topic in higher education. The chapters are contributed by professors and journalists from around the world. The authors explain,...
News, Inc.: Brand and Advocacy Journalism Across Media
1st Edition
By David O. Dowling
June 16, 2025
Taking a critical historical approach, this book examines the convergence of journalism and advertising industries that has led to the blurring of commercial and editorial functions within news organizations. This book considers the rise of brand journalism as it is broadly conceived across ...
Constructive Journalism: Precedents, Principles, and Practices
1st Edition
By Peter Bro
May 06, 2025
This book offers a deep and comprehensive overview of constructive journalism, setting out the guiding principles and practices for a journalism that aims to do more than simply inform about problems. In this authoritative yet concise volume, Peter Bro asks what does constructive journalism mean, ...
Evaluating Digital Sources in Journalism: An Introduction to Digital Source Criticism
1st Edition
By Ståle Grut
May 06, 2025
Building on a rich journalistic tradition of critical source analysis, this book considers the impact of the move from analogue to digital sources on information quality and presents methods and tools to verify information found online and help counter the spread of misinformation. Evaluating ...
Revisiting Peace Journalism in the Kenyan News Landscape
1st Edition
By Cecilia Arregui Olivera
February 25, 2025
This book revisits the concept of peace journalism, a framework that emerged to question and redefine the professional ethos of conflict reporting by challenging traditional news values, such as the focus on negativity, violence, and the elites, to emphasise reconciliation and dialogue, ...
Nonverbal Neutrality of Broadcasters Covering Crisis: Not Just What You Say But How You Say It
1st Edition
By Danielle Deavours
December 19, 2024
Offering a critical and sensitive reflection on journalists’ nonverbal behaviors during their coverage of school shootings in the U.S., this book shows how individual- and social-level factors predict broadcasters’ nonverbal neutrality. Nonverbal behaviors have the ability to transmit bias, ...
Reporting Sexual Violence and #MeToo in Asia: The View from Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan
1st Edition
By Luwei Rose Luqiu
November 26, 2024
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the role of news media and social media in the propagation and treatment of the global #MeToo movement. This comparative study uniquely spans Hong Kong, Taiwan, and mainland China—three culturally similar yet legally and politically distinct ...