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This book brings together a diverse, international array of
contributors to explore the topics of news "quality" in the online
age and the relationships between news organizations and enormously
influential digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, and
Twitter. Covering topics ranging from internet incivility,
crowdsourcing, and YouTube politics to regulations, algorithms, and
AI, this book draws the key distinction between the news that
facilitates democracy from news that undermines it. For students
and scholars as well as journalists, policymakers, and media
commentators, this important work engages a wide range of
methodological and theoretical perspectives to define the key
concept of "quality" in the news media.
Despite the importance of foreign news, its history, transformation
and indeed its future have not been much studied. The scholarly
community often calls attention to journalism's shortcomings
covering the world, yet the topic has not been systematically
examined across countries or over time. The need to redress this
neglect and the desire to assess the impact of new media
technologies on the future of journalism - including foreign
correspondence - provide the motivation for this stimulating,
exciting and thought-provoking book. While the old economic models
supporting news have crumbled in the wake of new media
technologies, these changes have the potential to bring new and
improved ways to inform people of foreign news. In an increasingly
globalized era, journalism is being transformed by the effortlessly
quick sharing of information across national boundaries. As such,
we need to reconsider foreign correspondence and explore where such
reporting is headed. This book discusses the current state and
future prospects for foreign correspondence across the full range
of media platforms, and assesses developments in the reporting of
overseas news for audiences, governments and foreign policy in both
contemporary and historical settings around the globe. As Emmy
Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Serge Schmemann
reminds us in this book, "quality journalism and unbiased reporting
are as valid and necessary today as they ever were [...] one of the
primary tasks of journalists and scholars as they follow the
changes taking place must be to ensure that the 'new international
information order' now imposed by the Internet remains true to the
ideals and traditions that define our journalism." This book was
originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.
This book brings together a diverse, international array of
contributors to explore the topics of news "quality" in the online
age and the relationships between news organizations and enormously
influential digital platforms such as Facebook, Google, and
Twitter. Covering topics ranging from internet incivility,
crowdsourcing, and YouTube politics to regulations, algorithms, and
AI, this book draws the key distinction between the news that
facilitates democracy from news that undermines it. For students
and scholars as well as journalists, policymakers, and media
commentators, this important work engages a wide range of
methodological and theoretical perspectives to define the key
concept of "quality" in the news media.
Published over twenty years ago, Regina G. Lawrence's The Politics
of Force was the first scholarly book to look at the way in which
media coverage of unexpected, dramatic events shaped public
consciousness about important social and political problems. At a
time when police brutality was rarely discussed in the news,
Lawrence examined police use of force in over 500 incidents, with
an in-depth look at the Rodney King case. In doing so, she showed
that when incidents of police brutality became news, they offered
one of the few real opportunities for marginalized voices and
activists to find a public platform and take on the powerful. In
the intervening years, the empirical and theoretical contributions
of The Politics of Force have become more significant, not only
because police brutality is back in the news, but because the media
system itself has changed. In this updated edition, Lawrence
contextualizes and extends these contributions, while including a
closer look at race and racial justice in incidents of police use
of force. Reflecting on the context in which the book was written-a
time when race and policing received limited coverage in the news
and in the field of political communication-Lawrence considers what
has changed in media studies since the year 2000, what things
haven't changed, and why. Moreover, Lawrence examines coverage of
more recent incidents of police violence and the ways in which the
voices of citizen activists are treated in the news today. In turn,
she addresses the important question of how defining political
problems through such events might or might not produce more
lasting policy change. Expanding on her landmark publication,
Lawrence provides an accessible update on news production dynamics
and police use of force for a new generation of scholars, students,
and activists.
Despite the importance of foreign news, its history, transformation
and indeed its future have not been much studied. The scholarly
community often calls attention to journalism's shortcomings
covering the world, yet the topic has not been systematically
examined across countries or over time. The need to redress this
neglect and the desire to assess the impact of new media
technologies on the future of journalism - including foreign
correspondence - provide the motivation for this stimulating,
exciting and thought-provoking book. While the old economic models
supporting news have crumbled in the wake of new media
technologies, these changes have the potential to bring new and
improved ways to inform people of foreign news. In an increasingly
globalized era, journalism is being transformed by the effortlessly
quick sharing of information across national boundaries. As such,
we need to reconsider foreign correspondence and explore where such
reporting is headed. This book discusses the current state and
future prospects for foreign correspondence across the full range
of media platforms, and assesses developments in the reporting of
overseas news for audiences, governments and foreign policy in both
contemporary and historical settings around the globe. As Emmy
Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent Serge Schmemann
reminds us in this book, "quality journalism and unbiased reporting
are as valid and necessary today as they ever were [...] one of the
primary tasks of journalists and scholars as they follow the
changes taking place must be to ensure that the 'new international
information order' now imposed by the Internet remains true to the
ideals and traditions that define our journalism." This book was
originally published as a special issue of Journalism Studies.
Published over twenty years ago, Regina G. Lawrence's The Politics
of Force was the first scholarly book to look at the way in which
media coverage of unexpected, dramatic events shaped public
consciousness about important social and political problems. At a
time when police brutality was rarely discussed in the news,
Lawrence examined police use of force in over 500 incidents, with
an in-depth look at the Rodney King case. In doing so, she showed
that when incidents of police brutality became news, they offered
one of the few real opportunities for marginalized voices and
activists to find a public platform and take on the powerful. In
the intervening years, the empirical and theoretical contributions
of The Politics of Force have become more significant, not only
because police brutality is back in the news, but because the media
system itself has changed. In this updated edition, Lawrence
contextualizes and extends these contributions, while including a
closer look at race and racial justice in incidents of police use
of force. Reflecting on the context in which the book was written-a
time when race and policing received limited coverage in the news
and in the field of political communication-Lawrence considers what
has changed in media studies since the year 2000, what things
haven't changed, and why. Moreover, Lawrence examines coverage of
more recent incidents of police violence and the ways in which the
voices of citizen activists are treated in the news today. In turn,
she addresses the important question of how defining political
problems through such events might or might not produce more
lasting policy change. Expanding on her landmark publication,
Lawrence provides an accessible update on news production dynamics
and police use of force for a new generation of scholars, students,
and activists.
A sobering look at the intimate relationship between political
power and the news media, "When the Press Fails" argues that the
dependence of reporters on official sources disastrously thwarts
coverage of dissenting voices from outside the Beltway.The result
is both an indictment of official spin and an urgent call to action
that questions why the mainstream press failed to challenge the
Bush administration's arguments for an invasion of Iraq or to
illuminate administration policies underlying the Abu Ghraib
controversy. Drawing on revealing interviews with Washington
insiders and analysis of content from major news outlets, the
authors illustrate the media's unilateral surrender to White House
spin whenever oppositional voices elsewhere in government fall
silent. Contrasting these grave failures with the refreshingly
critical reporting on Hurricane Katrina - a rare event that caught
officials off guard, enabling journalists to enter a nospin zone -
"When the Press Fails" concludes by proposing new practices to
reduce reporters' dependence on power.
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