The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism brings together scholars committed to the conceptual and methodological development of news and journalism studies from around the world.
Across 50 chapters, organized thematically over seven sections, contributions examine a range of pressing challenges for news reporting – including digital convergence, mobile platforms, web analytics and datafication, social media polarization, and the use of drones. Journalism’s mediation of social issues is also explored, such as those pertaining to human rights, civic engagement, gender inequalities, the environmental crisis, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Each section raises important questions for academic research, generating fresh insights into journalistic forms, practices, and epistemologies. The Companion furthers our understanding of why we have ended up with the kind of news reporting we have today – its remarkable strengths, the difficulties it faces, and how we might improve upon it for tomorrow.
Completely revised and updated for its second edition, this volume is ideal for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, researchers, and academics in the fields of news, media, and journalism studies.
List of Contributors
Introduction: The value(s) of truth-seeking in news and journalism
Stuart Allan
PART I Journalism and Democracy
1. News and the Public Sphere
C.W. Anderson
2. India’s Imperilled Public Sphere: Challenges to Independent Journalism in the World’s Largest Democracy
Kalyani Chadha
3. The Political Economy of Contemporary Journalism and the Crisis of Public Knowledge
Peter Golding and Graham Murdock
4. Journalism and Community Engagement as if Democracy Matters
Lana F. Rakow
5. The so-called "crisis" of trust in journalism
Rachel E. Moran
6. Journalists, Epistemology, and Authority
Matt Carlson
7. Social Roles of Journalism
Tim Vos
8. Bargaining with local journalism’s value
Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller
PART II Rewriting the Rules of Reporting
9. Journalism’s Multiple Gods: Objectivity, Its Variants, and Its Rivals
Michael Schudson
10. Newsroom cultures at risk? Journalism’s reliance on web metrics and analytics
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon and Avery E. Holton
11. The Changing Status of Women Journalists
Linda Steiner and Dinfin Mulupi
12. Digital Journalism in China: Media Convergence, the ‘Central Kitchen’ and the Platformization of News
Jing Meng and Shixin Ivy Zhang
13. Convergent Journalism: Cross-media content strategies to improve the quality of Thai news reporting
Sakulsri Srisaracam
14. Pop Up Newsrooms: From New Collaborations to Counter Narratives
Melissa Wall
15. Online trolling of journalists
Silvio Waisbord
PART III News, Mobilities and Data
16. Witnessing George Floyd: Tracing Black mobile journalism’s rise, impact and enduring questions
Allissa V. Richardson
17. Mobility, smartphones and news
Andrew Duffy and Oscar Westlund
18. Journalism and Data Justice: Critically Reporting Datafication
Arne Hintz, Emiliano Treré and Naomi Owen
19. Balancing between "statistical panic" and "statistical boredom": News, numbers and narratives in the risk society
Brendan Lawson and An Nguyen
20. Hybrid journalism
Stephen D. Reese
21. Podcast journalism and performative transparency
Mia Lindgren
22. Drone journalism: the invisibility of the aerial view
Jonas Harvard
PART IV Crisis, Conflict and War Reporting
23. News reporting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South
Sara Chinnasamy and Felipe F. Salvosa II
24. Risk journalism and globalized crisis ecologies: Journalists as ‘cosmopolitan’ actors
Ingrid Volkmer
25. Video Journalism and Human Rights
Sandra Ristovska
26. Beyond verification: UGC as embodied testimony in conflict news
Lilie Chouliaraki and Omar Al-Ghazzi
27. The Ethics of War Reporting
Donald Matheson
28. News Reporting of Pakistan and the War on Terror
Shahzad Ali and Ahmer Safwan
29. Photojournalism and the US-led invasion of Afghanistan
Stuart Allan
PART V Representing Realities
30. Journalism and Environmental Futures
Libby Lester
31. News reporting of poverty and inequality
Jairo Lugo-Ocando
32. Journalism and Gender Violence
Lisa Cuklanz
33. Women in Sports News: Challenges posed by the emergence of popular feminism
Erin Whiteside
34. Celebrity News Online: Changing Media, Actors, and Stories
Anne Jerslev and Mette Mortensen
35. Girls, News, and Public Cultures
Cynthia Carter and Kaitlynn Mendes
36. Socially Responsible Journalism: Diverse Responses to Polarisation
Laura Ahva
PART VI Envisioning Alternative Journalisms
37. News Audiences and the Challenges of Digital Citizenship
Chris Peters
38. Contextualizing Citizen Visual Journalism: Narrative and Testimony
Mary Angela Bock
39. Citizen Journalism, electoral conflict and peace-building processes in Kenya and Zimbabwe
Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare
40. Journalism and counterpublics: Is journalism for all the people?
Bolette B. Blaagaard
41. News Literacy Practice in a Culture of Infodemic
Paul Mihailidis
42. Journalism and Ethnoracial Minorities
Sherry S. Yu and George L. Daniels
43. Teaching innovation and entrepreneurship. Journalism students as change agents?
Marcel Broersma and Jane B. Singer
PART VII Globalising Journalisms
44. Comparing journalistic cultures across nations
Folker Hanusch
45. Fringe Benefits: Weekly Magazines and Access Journalism in Japan
David McNeill and Kaori Hayashi
46. Arab Investigative Journalism: Exploring Processes of Cultural Change
Saba Bebawi
47. Theorizing Journalism and the Global South
Bruce Mutsvairo and Kristin Skare Orgeret
48. Mapping anti-press violence in Latin America: Prospects for reform
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez
49. Devalued News Workers in the Labor of International Journalism: Local Stringers and Fixers
Lyndsay Palmer
50. Digital journalistic cultures on social media
Claudia Mellado
Index
Biography
Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Communication in the School of Journalism, Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK.
