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]
Reporting Humanitarian Disasters in a Social Media Age
1st Edition
By Glenda Cooper
June 30, 2020
From the tsunami to Hurricane Sandy, the Nepal earthquake to Syrian refugees—defining images and accounts of humanitarian crises are now often created, not by journalists but by ordinary citizens using Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Snapchat. But how has the use of this content—and the ...
The Rise of NonProfit Investigative Journalism in the United States
1st Edition
By Bill Birnbauer
June 30, 2020
With a foreword from Michael Schudson, The Rise of Nonprofit Investigative Journalism in the United States examines the rapid growth, impact and sustainability of not-for-profit investigative reporting and its impact on US democracy and mainstream journalism. The book addresses key questions about ...
Journalistic Role Performance: Concepts, Contexts, and Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Mellado, Lea Hellmueller, Wolfgang Donsbach
December 10, 2019
This volume lays out the theoretical and methodological framework to introduce the concept of journalistic role performance, defined as the outcome of concrete newsroom decisions and the style of news reporting when considering different constraints that influence the news product. By connecting ...
News of Baltimore: Race, Rage and the City
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Steiner, Silvio Waisbord
December 10, 2019
This book examines how the media approached long-standing and long-simmering issues of race, class, violence, and social responsibility in Baltimore during the demonstrations, violence, and public debate in the spring of 2015. Contributors take Baltimore to be an important place, symbol, and marker...
Pursuing an Ethic of Empathy in Journalism
1st Edition
By Janet Blank-Libra
December 10, 2019
This book advances a journalistic theory of empathy, challenging long-held notions about how best to do journalism. Because the institution of journalism has typically equated empathy and compassion with bias, it has been slow to give the intelligence of the emotions a legitimate place in the ...
The Trump Presidency, Journalism, and Democracy
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert E. Gutsche Jr.
December 10, 2019
This book examines the disruptive nature of Trump news – both the news his administration makes and the coverage of it – related to dominant paradigms and ideologies of U.S. journalism. By relying on conceptualizations of media memory and "othering" through news coverage that enhances ...
News Across Media: Production, Distribution and Consumption
1st Edition
Edited
By Jakob Linaa Jensen, Mette Mortensen, Jacob Ørmen
September 10, 2018
News production, distribution and consumption are in rapidly changing due to the rise of new media. This book examines how these processes become more and more interrelated through logics of dissemination, sharing and co-production. These changes have the potential to affect the criteria of ...
Democratizing Journalism through Mobile Media: The Mojo Revolution
1st Edition
By Ivo Burum
June 28, 2018
Fuelled by a distrust of big media and the development of mobile technologies, the resulting convergence of journalism praxis (professional to alternative), workflows (analogue to multipoint digital) and platforms (PC to mobile), result in a 24-hour always-on content cycle. The information ...
Journalism and the Philosophy of Truth: Beyond Objectivity and Balance
1st Edition
By Jesse Owen Hearns-Branaman
April 27, 2018
This book bridges a gap between discussions about truth, human understanding, and epistemology in philosophical circles, and debates about objectivity, bias, and truth in journalism. It examines four major philosophical theories in easy to understand terms while maintaining a critical insight which...
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 ...
Profile Pieces: Journalism and the 'Human Interest' Bias
1st Edition
Edited
By Sue Joseph, Richard Lance Keeble
January 12, 2018
This book examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing. Profiles, and the practice of writing them, are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing nature of journalism itself. While ...