The Routledge companion to news and journalism / edited by Stuart Allan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allan, Stuart, editor.

Series:

Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Journalism.

Mass media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, New York : Routledge, [2023]

Summary:

"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, organised 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Introduction: The Value(s) of Truth-Seeking in News and Journalism

PART I: Journalism and Democracy

1 News and the Public Sphere

2 India's Imperiled Public Sphere: Challenges to Independent Journalism in the World's Largest Democracy

3 The Political Economy of Contemporary Journalism and the Crisis of Public Knowledge

4 Journalism and Community Engagement as if Democracy Matters

5 The So-Called "Crisis" of Trust in Journalism

6 Journalists, Epistemology, and Authority

7 Social Roles of Journalism

8 Bargaining with Local Journalism's Value

PART II: Rewriting the Rules of Reporting

9 Journalism's Multiple Gods: Objectivity, Its Variants, and Its Rivals

10 Newsroom Cultures at Risk? Journalism's Reliance on Web Metrics and Analytics

11 The Changing Status of Women Journalists

12 Digital Journalism in China: Media Convergence, the 'Central Kitchen' and the Platformization of News

13 Convergent Journalism: Cross-Media Content Strategies to Improve the Quality of Thai News Reporting

14 Pop Up Newsrooms: From New Collaborations to Counter Narratives

15 Online Trolling of Journalists

PART III: News, Mobilities and Data

16 Witnessing George Floyd: Tracing Black Mobile Journalism's Rise, Impact and Enduring Questions

17 Mobility, Smartphones and News

18 Journalism and Data Justice: Critically Reporting Datafication

19 Balancing between "Statistical Panic" and "Statistical Boredom": News, Numbers and Narratives in the Risk Society

20 Hybrid Journalism

21 Podcast Journalism and Performative Transparency

22 Drone Journalism: The Invisibility of the Aerial View

PART IV: Crisis, Conflict and War Reporting.

23 News Reporting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the Global South

24 Risk Journalism and Globalized Crisis Ecologies: Journalists as 'Cosmopolitan' Actors

25 Video Journalism and Human Rights

26 Beyond Vericfiation: UGC as Embodied Testimony in Conflict News

27 The Ethics of War Reporting

28 News Reporting of Pakistan and the War on Terror

29 Photojournalism and the US-Led Invasion of Afghanistan

PART V: Representing Realities

30 Journalism and Environmental Futures

31 News Reporting of Poverty and Inequality

32 Journalism and Gender Violence

33 Women in Sports News: Challenges Posed by the Emergence of Popular Feminism

34 Celebrity News Online: Changing Media, Actors, and Stories

35 Girls, News, and Public Cultures

36 Socially Responsible Journalism: Diverse Responses to Polarisation

PART VI: Envisioning Alternative Journalisms

37 News Audiences and the Challenges of Digital Citizenship

38 Contextualizing Citizen Visual Journalism: Narrative and Testimony

39 Citizen Journalism, Electoral Conflict and Peacebuilding Processes in Kenya and Zimbabwe

40 Journalism and Counterpublics: Is Journalism for All the People?

41 News Literacy Practice in a Culture of Infodemic

42 Journalism and Ethnoracial Minorities

43 Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Journalism Students as Change Agents?

PART VII: Globalising Journalisms

44 Comparing Journalistic Cultures across Nations

45 Fringe Benefits: Weekly Magazines and Access Journalism in Japan

46 Arab Investigative Journalism: Exploring Processes of Cultural Change

47 Theorizing Journalism and the Global South

48 Mapping Anti-Press Violence in Latin America: Challenges for Journalists' Safety

49 Devalued News Workers in the Labor of International Journalism: Local Stringers and Fixers.

50 Digital Journalistic Cultures on Social Media

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781003174790

1003174795

9781000786002

1000786005

OCLC:

1347695157