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
[email protected]
COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch
May 31, 2023
Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Responses is one of the first books uniting an international team of scholars to investigate how media address critical social, political, and health issues connected to the 2020-21 COVID-19 outbreak. The book evaluates unique civic challenges, ...
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, ...
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...
Audience Feedback in the News Media
1st Edition
By Bill Reader
February 05, 2018
As long as there has been news media, there has been audience feedback. This book provides the first definitive history of the evolution of audience feedback, from the early newsbooks of the 16th century to the rough-and-tumble online forums of the modern age. In addition to tracing the historical ...
Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering: The Role of Fixers
1st Edition
By Colleen Murrell
February 05, 2018
This book reveals that 'fixers'—local experts on whom foreign correspondents rely—play a much more significant role in international television newsgathering than has been documented or understood. Murrell explores the frames though which international reporting has traditionally been analysed and ...
Social Media at BBC News: The Re-Making of Crisis Reporting
1st Edition
By Valerie Belair-Gagnon
November 24, 2017
Since the emergence of social media in the journalistic landscape, the BBC has sought to produce reporting more connected to its audience while retaining its authority as a public broadcaster in crisis reporting. Using empirical analysis of crisis news production at the BBC, this book shows that ...
Journalism and Eyewitness Images: Digital Media, Participation, and Conflict
1st Edition
By Mette Mortensen
November 22, 2017
Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid, however, to non-professional, eyewitness visuals, even though this genre holds a still greater bearing ...
Mindful Journalism and News Ethics in the Digital Era: A Buddhist Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Shelton A. Gunaratne, Mark Pearson, Sugath Senarath
June 16, 2017
This book aims to be the first comprehensive exposition of "mindful journalism"—drawn from core Buddhist ethical principles—as a fresh approach to journalism ethics. It suggests that Buddhist mindfulness strategies can be applied purposively in journalism to add clarity, fairness and equity to news...