THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO POLITICAL JOURNALISM
This international edited collection brings together the latest research in political journalism, examining the ideological, commercial and technological forces that are transforming the field and its evolving relationship with news audiences.
Comprising 40 original chapters written by scholars from around the world, The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism offers fundamental insights from the disciplines of political science, media, communications and journalism. Drawing on interviews, discourse analysis and quantitative statistical methods, the volume is divided into six parts, each focusing on a major theme in the contemporary study of political journalism. Topics covered include far-right media, populism movements and the media, local political journalism practices, public engagement and audience participation in political journalism, agenda setting, and advocacy and activism in journalism. Chapters draw on case studies from the United Kingdom, Hungary, Russia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Italy, Brazil, the United States, Greece and Spain.
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism is a valuable resource for students and scholars of media studies, journalism studies, political communication and political science.
James Morrison is reader in journalism at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. A former national newspaper journalist, his research interests focus on stigmatization and othering in media and political discourse. He is the author of the monographs Familiar Strangers, Juvenile Panic and the British Press, Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths and The Left Behind.
Jen Birks is associate professor of media at the University of Nottingham, and co-convener of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group. Her research focuses on the role of publics and civil society in political media and communication. Her most recent monograph is Fact-checking Journalism and Political Argumentation.
Mike Berry is senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. His books include The Media, the Public and the Great Financial Crisis and Bad News from Israel (with Greg Philo). His research primarily focuses on how media impact public knowledge and understanding of social, political and economic issues.
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism
Edited by James Morrison, Jen Birks and Mike Berry
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Names: Morrison, James, 1971- editor. | Birks, Jen, editor. | Berry, Mike, 1967- editor.
Title: The Routledge companion to political journalism / edited by James Morrison, Jen Birks, and Mike Berry.
Description: London ; New York : Routledge, 2022. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2021017266 | ISBN 9780367248222 (hardback) | ISBN 9781032080451 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429284571 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Journalism--Political aspects. | Press and politics.
Classification: LCC PN4751 .R68 2022 | DDC 070.4/4932--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021017266
ISBN: 978-0-367-24822-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-032-08045-1 (pbk)
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DOI: 10.4324/9780429284571
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Contents
Introduction: The new terrain of mediated politics
James Morrison, Jen Birks and Mike Berry
PART I
From truth to post-truth eras? The history of political journalism
The origins and development of political journalism in Britain
Brian Cathcart
Partial news: Election editorializing in inter-war Britain
Dominic Wring and David Deacon
Reinventing political reporting: Outsiders, disruptors and innovators
Erik Neveu
Political news and the celebrity frame
John Corner
Evolving journalism norms: Objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism
Jen Birks
PART II
Political journalism and media systems: Political economy and journalistic professionalism
The Scottish independence referendum, political journalism and the news media landscape
Marina Dekavalla
Local political journalism: Systematic pressures on the normative functions of local news
Julie Firmstone and Rebecca Whittington
Political journalism in a hybrid media landscape: A Scandinavian policy perspective
Sigurd Allern
Hungary's clientelistic media system
Pter Bajomi-Lzr
Political journalism in the Russian media system: Journalistic professionalization in the context of digital media
Elena Vartanova
Internet-led political journalism: Challenging hybrid regime resilience in Malaysia
Niki Cheong
Journalism in Myanmar: Freedom, Facebook and fake news
Tina Burrett
PART III
Pluralism, partisanship and populism in political journalism
The new populisms: A key dynamic of mediated politics
Michael Higgins
The renewed visibility of populism: Are social media the culprit?
Delia Dumitrica
Strategies of alternative right-wing media: The case of Breitbart News
Jason Roberts and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
Putin, partisanship and the press: Comparing Russian media reporting of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal
Tina Burrett
Political journalism by other means: An African perspective
Herman Wasserman
What kind of Italy? The cultural battle waged by a European populist leader against Brussels
Paul Rowinski
Populist candidates in the age of social media: Media portrayals of Jair Bolsonaro's presidential bid in Brazil
Heloisa Sturm Wilkerson
