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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Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Noureddine Miladi
May 31, 2023
This volume responds to the challenges posed by the rapid developments in satellite TV and digital technologies, addressing media ethics from a global perspective to discuss how we can understand journalism practice in its cultural contexts. An international team of contributors draw upon global ...
The Political Relevance of Food Media and Journalism: Beyond Reviews and Recipes
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Fakazis, Elfriede Fürsich
January 31, 2023
Interrogating the intersections of food, journalism, and politics, this book offers a critical examination of food media and journalism, and its political potential against the backdrop of contemporary social challenges. Contributors analyze current and historic examples such as #BlackLivesMatter, ...
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation
1st Edition
By Seungahn Nah, Deborah S. Chung
August 29, 2022
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation re-conceptualizes citizen journalism in the context of Habermas’s theory of the public sphere and communicative action, to examine how citizen journalism practice as civic participation may contribute to a heathier community and democracy in ...
Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Mellado
August 01, 2022
Beyond Journalistic Norms contests and challenges pre-established assumptions about a dominant type of journalism prevailing in different political, economic, and geographical contexts to posit the fluid, and dynamic nature of journalistic roles. The book brings together scholars from Western and ...
Journalism and Digital Labor: Experiences of Online News Production
1st Edition
By Tai Neilson
August 01, 2022
This book investigates journalists’ work practices, professional ideologies, and the power relations that impact their work, arguing that reporters’ lives and livelihoods are shaped by digital technologies and new modes of capital accumulation. Tai Neilson weaves together ethnographic approaches ...
Journalists and Confidential Sources: Colliding Public Interests in the Age of the Leak
1st Edition
By Joseph M Fernandez
August 01, 2022
Journalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers, and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality. It examines the difficulties afflicting such relationships; analyses the deteriorating "right to know"...
Newsroom-Classroom Hybrids at Universities: Student Labor and the Journalism Crisis
1st Edition
By Gunhild Ring Olsen
August 01, 2022
This book investigates the success of U.S. nonprofit university centers, where students work alongside investigative reporters, from a professional and educational perspective. Drawing on a detailed investigation of four of the most prominent and renowned centers in the U.S. – the IRP Berkeley (UC...
Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Andrea Carson
June 30, 2021
Theoretically grounded and using quantitative data spanning more than 50 years together with qualitative research, this book examines investigative journalism’s role in liberal democracies in the past and in the digital age. In its ideal form, investigative reporting provides a check on power in ...
Tech Giants, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Journalism
1st Edition
By Jason Paul Whittaker
September 30, 2020
This book examines the impact of the "Big Five" technology companies – Apple, Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft – on journalism and the media industries. It looks at the current role of algorithms and artificial intelligence in curating how we consume media and their increasing ...
Critical Perspectives on Journalistic Beliefs and Actions: Global Experiences
1st Edition
Edited
By Eric Freedman, Robyn S. Goodman, Elanie Steyn
August 14, 2020
This book provides case studies, many incorporating in-depth interviews and surveys of journalists. It examines issues such as journalists’ attitudes toward their contributions to society; the impact of industry and technological changes; culture and minority issues in the newsroom and ...
Russia's Liberal Media: Handcuffed but Free
1st Edition
By Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova
August 14, 2020
This book examines the challenges and pressures liberal journalists face in Putin's Russia. It presents the findings of an in-depth qualitative study, which included ethnographic observations of editorial meetings during the conflict in Ukraine. It also provides a theoretical framework for ...
Economic News: Informing The Inattentive Audience
1st Edition
By Arjen van Dalen, Helle Svensson, Antonis Kalogeropoulos, Erik Albæk, Claes H. de Vreese
June 30, 2020
This book tells the story of how the news media can help the inattentive members of the public become better educated and knowledgeable ‘economic citizens’. The authors argue that changes in the economy, journalism and consumer culture have made economic news more visible, more mainstream and more ...