Routledge Focus on Journalism Studies
Peripheral Actors in Journalism: Deviating from the Norm?
1st Edition
By Aljosha Karim Schapals
October 09, 2024
This book addresses the transformative role that so-called peripheral actors in journalism – emerging outlets diverging from the norms fiercely held by mainstream media outlets – play in today’s news ecosystem. The author charts the rise to prominence of these actors, outlining how they have ...
Re-examining the UK Newspaper Industry
1st Edition
By Marc Edge
October 09, 2024
This book dispels myths surrounding the newspaper industry’s financial viability in an online world, arguing that widespread predictions of pending newspaper extinction are based mostly on misunderstandings of the industry’s operations. Drawing from his training as a business journalist, Marc Edge ...
Undercover Reporting, Deception, and Betrayal in Journalism
1st Edition
By Denis Muller, Andrea Carson
October 09, 2024
This book discusses undercover reporting, betrayal and deception in journalism, addressing the ethical issues encountered by professionals when deception is involved and providing an explanation of how high-profile cases have developed. Carson and Muller begin by examining how philosophical ...
Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone
1st Edition
By Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce
August 26, 2024
This book documents the unique reporting practices of humanitarian journalists – an influential group of journalists defying conventional approaches to covering humanitarian crises. Based on a 5-year study, involving over 150 in-depth interviews, this book examines the political, economic and ...
Australian Sports Journalism: Power, Control and Threats
1st Edition
By Peter English
May 27, 2024
This insightful volume explores the major challenges facing sports journalism in Australia today, discussing how, in an environment dominated by sports organisations and increasing commercial factors, the role of the sports journalist is being severely compromised. By combining quantitative and ...
Election Politics and the Mass Press in Long Edwardian Britain
1st Edition
By Christopher Shoop-Worrall
May 27, 2024
This book explores the ways in which the emergence of the ‘new’ daily mass press of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries represented a hugely significant period in histories of both the British press and the British political system. Drawing on a parallel analysis of election-time ...
Front-Page Scotland: Newspapers and the Scottish Independence Referendum
1st Edition
By David Patrick
January 29, 2024
This book provides a varied, thorough and informative analysis of how newspapers covered the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in its critical final months. Providing a wealth of new empirical findings, the book engages with the key themes and issues presented by a variety of newspaper outlets...
Journalism’s Racial Reckoning: The News Media’s Pivot to Diversity and Inclusion
1st Edition
By Brad Clark
January 29, 2024
This book addresses endemic issues of racism in news media at what is a critical moment in time, as journalists around the world speak out en masse against the prejudice and inequality in the industry. As the events of 2020 – the death of George Floyd, the rise in prominence of the Black Lives ...
Public Television in Poland: Political Pressure and Public Service Media in a Post-communist Country
1st Edition
By Agnieszka Węglińska
May 31, 2023
This book examines the professional activity of public television journalists in Poland operating in the still unstable system of a post-communist state, to demonstrate how the media can work in the public interest to strengthen democracy. Drawing on in-depth interviews with Telewizja Polska (TVP...
When Media Succumbs to Rising Authoritarianism: Cautionary Tales from Venezuela’s Recent History
1st Edition
Edited
By Ezequiel Korin, Paromita Pain
May 31, 2023
This book provides a transversal scholarly exploration of the multiple changes exhibited around Venezuelan media during the Chávez regime. Bringing together a body of original research by key scholars in the field, the book looks at the different processes entailed by Chavismo’s relationship with ...
Discourses of Legitimation in the News: The Case of the Economic Crisis in Greece
1st Edition
By Vaia Doudaki, Angeliki Boubouka
June 14, 2022
Examining the news coverage of the economic crisis in Greece, this book develops a framework for identifying discourses of legitimation of actors, political decisions, and policies in the news. This study departs from the assumption that news is a privileged terrain where discursive ...
Peace Journalism in East Africa: A Manual for Media Practitioners
1st Edition
Edited
By Fredrick Ogenga
June 14, 2022
This concise edited collection explores the practice of peace journalism in East Africa, focusing specifically on the unique political and economic contexts of Uganda and Kenya. The book offers a refreshing path towards transformative journalism in East Africa through imbibing pan-African ...