This is a critical examination the impact of sustained large-scale austerity cuts on local government communications in the UK. Budget constraints have left public sector media teams without the resources for robust citizen-facing communications. The ‘nose for news’ has been downgraded and local…
Paperback – 2019-05-16
Routledge
Propaganda in the Information Age is a collaborative volume which updates Herman and Chomsky’s propaganda model for the 21st century media landscape and makes the case for the continuing relevance of their original ideas. It includes an exclusive interview with Noam Chomsky himself. 2018 marks 30…
Paperback – 2019-05-13
Routledge
Using the Nordic media model as an empirical backdrop, Journalism Between the State and the Market defines and analyses journalism’s fundamental problem – its shifting location between the state and the market. This book examines how this distance is decreasing as journalism steps closer to both…
Hardback – 2019-04-30
Routledge
Disruptions
A deep dive into the world of online and multimedia longform storytelling, this book charts the renaissance in deep reading, viewing and listening associated with the literary mind, and the resulting implications of its rise in popularity. David O. Dowling argues that although developments in…
Paperback – 2019-04-05
Routledge
Cross-Border Collaborative Journalism is a detailed guide to transnational reporting, a cutting-edge journalistic strategy. In the twenty-first century, the most pressing political and social issues, such as financial crises, wealth inequality, migration flows and environmental collapse,…
Paperback – 2019-03-29
Routledge
Under increasingly intense newsroom demands, reporters often find it difficult to cover the complexity of topics that deal with racial and social inequality. This path-breaking book lays out simple, effective reporting strategies that equip journalists to investigate disparity’s root causes.…
Paperback – 2019-03-27
Routledge
Drawing on the structural-constructivist framework of journalistic field and habitus, Reporting China on the Rise examines the internal and external dynamics which are shaping the work of foreign correspondents in China during Xi Jinping’s tenure. This study presents findings from extensive…
Hardback – 2019-03-21
Routledge
Routledge Focus on Communication and Society
Ethical Reporting of Sensitive Topics explores the underlying complexities that journalists may face when covering difficult news stories. Reporting on issues such as suicide, sexual abuse, or migration is a skill that is often glossed over in a journalist’s education. By combining theory and…
Paperback – 2019-03-11
Routledge
The digital infrastructure of media production, dissemination and consumption is becoming increasingly complex, presenting the challenge of how we should research the digital journalism environment. Digital journalism takes many forms – we therefore need to revise, improve, adjust and even invent…
Paperback – 2019-02-14
Routledge
Journalism Studies
A Short History of Disruptive Journalism Technologies provides a swift analysis of the computerization of the newsroom, from the mid-1960s through to the early 1990s. It focuses on how word processing and a number of related affordances, including mobile-reporting tools, impacted the daily work…
Hardback – 2019-02-12
Routledge
Disruptions
Journalism, Power and Investigation presents a contemporary, trans-national analysis of investigative journalism. Beginning with a detailed introduction that examines the relationship between this form of public communication and normative conceptions of democracy, the book offers a selection of…
Paperback – 2019-02-01
Routledge
Big data is marked by staggering growth in the collection and analysis of digital trace information regarding human and natural activity, bound up in and enabled by the rise of persistent connectivity, networked communication, smart machines, and the internet of things. In addition to their impact…
Paperback – 2019-01-08
Routledge
Journalism Studies