Routledge Research in Journalism
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in journalism. It includes monographs and edited collections that provide insight into a field that faces the challenges of an ever-evolving news and media environment.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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Narrative Theory in Journalistic Practice: Understanding Emerging Digital Genres
1st Edition
Edited
By Yngve Benestad Hågvar, Harald Hornmoen, Jørgen Alnæs
November 28, 2025
Narrative Theory in Journalistic Practice provides innovative analytical frameworks for examining journalistic narratives in today's digital, multimodal media landscape. The volume expands beyond traditional models focused on linear texts to address contemporary formats across multiple platforms....
Evolving Journalism Research Methods: Applications, Trends, Analyses
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael P. Boyle, Adam M. Rainear
November 05, 2025
Evolving Journalism Research Methods offers the first comprehensive survey of research methods and their applications in Journalism Studies. Divided into five sections, this volume begins by contextualising key theories and industry debates, from newsroom automation to ethics in research. It ...
Research Methods for Social Media Journalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonathan Hendrickx, Michaël Opgenhaffen
November 03, 2025
This volume summarises novel and diverse research methods for both quantitative and qualitative social media journalism-based research. Focusing in turn on the production, contents, and consumption of social media journalism, the authors explore a multitude of methods, from real-life student ...
Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Dhiman Chattopadhyay
July 31, 2025
This book explores how journalism is practiced around the world and how there are multiple factors at the structural and contextual level shaping journalism practice. Drawing on case studies of how conflicts, pandemics, political developments, or human rights violations are covered in an ...
Journalism and the Muslim Narrative: Power, Resistance and Change
1st Edition
By Nadia Haq
June 03, 2025
Journalism and the Muslim Narrative presents an empirical analysis of how modern-day journalism practices contribute to the negative bias against Muslims in Britain, to provide an in-depth investigation of how we can better re-conceptualise journalism for our increasingly multicultural societies. ...
The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa: Colonial and Decolonial Practices in Mainstream Western News Media
1st Edition
By Omega Douglas
May 21, 2025
This book critically considers how and why centring race in the analysis of journalism deepens our understanding of how race is constructed and experienced in society. In doing so, it offers a theoretical framework for unpacking and dismantling racism within journalism practice and representation. ...
Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace
1st Edition
By Ayesha Jehangir
May 06, 2025
Drawing on the frameworks of peace journalism, this book offers new insights into the Pakistani media coverage of Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan. Based on a three-year-study, the author examines the political, social and economic forces that influence and govern the ...
Covering Extended Reality Technologies in the Media
1st Edition
By Emma Kaylee Graves
May 06, 2025
This book presents a study of the news coverage of extended reality technologies (virtual, augmented and mixed reality; or XR) and how this news corresponds with the marketing of XR products. Focusing on a group of recently emerging technological products, the book offers in-depth analysis of the ...
The Periodical Press Revolution: E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System
1st Edition
By Graham Law
May 06, 2025
This book explores a key aspect of journalism history from a sociological perspective: the rise of the periodical press. With a focus not on the economic and technological causes of this revolution but on the social and political consequences, the book takes a global look at this key development in...
Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Volkmer, Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Ansgard Heinrich, Antonio Castillo
December 30, 2024
This volume investigates the practice and challenges of journalism addressing globalized risk from various world regions. With chapters written by members of the Global Risk Journalism Hub, an international research network of leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this collection...
Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences
1st Edition
Edited
By David Swick, Richard Lance Keeble
December 18, 2024
Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism – immersive, long-form journalism so beautifully written that it can stand as literature – in the first anthology to examine literary journalism and prison. In this book, a wide range of ...
Reporting the Courts
1st Edition
By Richard Jones
December 04, 2024
This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news. Interrogating the history and current practice of court coverage in the UK, the author argues for its importance as a central feature of both open justice and public interest reporting. The book ...