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Journalists on Screen in the U.S. and Europe: Press Play book cover

1st Edition

Journalists on Screen in the U.S. and Europe Press Play

By Maxine De Wulf Helskens Copyright 2027
176 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a timely and necessary exploration of journalism in fiction, traditionally centered on American media, by analyzing journalistic discourses within European films and television series, and by examining how audiences make sense of these narratives.   Adopting an intersectional approach that considers gender, race, sexual orientation, and other dimensions of identity, the book... Read more

1. Journalism Fiction as a Metajournalistic Discourse; 2. What We Know So Far About Journalism Fiction; 3. No Such Thing as a Universal Journalistic Discourse; 4. Breaking News, Breaking Glass Ceilings? 5. The Difference Narrative Invigorated; 6. Audiences (Don’t) Need Another Journalism Hero; 7. Building And Questioning Professional Identity Through Fiction; 8. The Paradigm Paradox – Concluding Remarks; Index

Biography

Maxine De Wulf Helskens is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication Sciences at Ghent University, Belgium, where she is affiliated with the Center for Journalism Studies (CJS) and the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies (CIMS). Her research lies at the intersection of journalism studies, feminist media studies, and cultural studies, with a particular focus on metajournalistic discourse, journalism fiction, and gendered newsroom cultures. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as Journalism Practice and Feminist Media Studies and was awarded the 2023 Frieda Saeys Prize for outstanding research in gender and media studies. She has also received competitive research funding from the Flemish government, Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), and the Fulbright Program.

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