Routledge Research in Journalism
About the Book Series
This series is our home for innovative research in journalism. It includes monographs and edited collections that provide insight into a field that faces the challenges of an ever-evolving news and media environment.
To submit a proposal for this series, please contact:
Suzanne Richardson, Commissioning Editor for Media, Cultural and Communication Studies
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The Racial Dynamics of Reporting Africa: Colonial and Decolonial Practices in Mainstream Western News Media
1st Edition
By Omega Douglas
May 21, 2025
This book critically considers how and why centring race in the analysis of journalism deepens our understanding of how race is constructed and experienced in society. In doing so, it offers a theoretical framework for unpacking and dismantling racism within journalism practice and representation. ...
Afghan Refugees, Pakistani Media and the State: The Missing Peace
1st Edition
By Ayesha Jehangir
May 06, 2025
Drawing on the frameworks of peace journalism, this book offers new insights into the Pakistani media coverage of Afghan refugees and their forced repatriation from Pakistan. Based on a three-year-study, the author examines the political, social and economic forces that influence and govern the ...
Covering Extended Reality Technologies in the Media
1st Edition
By Emma Kaylee Graves
May 06, 2025
This book presents a study of the news coverage of extended reality technologies (virtual, augmented and mixed reality; or XR) and how this news corresponds with the marketing of XR products. Focusing on a group of recently emerging technological products, the book offers in-depth analysis of the ...
The Periodical Press Revolution: E. S. Dallas and the Nineteenth-Century British Media System
1st Edition
By Graham Law
May 06, 2025
This book explores a key aspect of journalism history from a sociological perspective: the rise of the periodical press. With a focus not on the economic and technological causes of this revolution but on the social and political consequences, the book takes a global look at this key development in...
Ecologies of Global Risk Journalism: Conceptualizing Local Journalism in an Era of Deep Disruptions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ingrid Volkmer, Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, Ansgard Heinrich, Antonio Castillo
December 30, 2024
This volume investigates the practice and challenges of journalism addressing globalized risk from various world regions. With chapters written by members of the Global Risk Journalism Hub, an international research network of leading scholars from the Global North and Global South, this collection...
Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences
1st Edition
Edited
By David Swick, Richard Lance Keeble
December 18, 2024
Literary Journalism Goes Inside Prison: Just Sentences opens up a new exploration of literary journalism – immersive, long-form journalism so beautifully written that it can stand as literature – in the first anthology to examine literary journalism and prison. In this book, a wide range of ...
Reporting the Courts
1st Edition
By Richard Jones
December 04, 2024
This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news. Interrogating the history and current practice of court coverage in the UK, the author argues for its importance as a central feature of both open justice and public interest reporting. The book ...
Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity
1st Edition
By Bonita Mason
November 28, 2024
Journalism Practice and Critical Reflexivity is a theoretical- and practice-based response to the crisis of mission and credibility in journalism studies that is heightened by online and social media. It describes, analyses and offers new approaches and models for critically reflexive journalism ...
Journalistic Practices in Restrictive Contexts: A Sociological Approach to the Case of Iran
1st Edition
By Banafsheh Ranji
October 08, 2024
Based on fieldwork conducted in Iran, this book discusses how it is possible for journalism to exist and function in a restrictive context. The book brings together a range of structural (macro), organizational (meso), and individual (micro) processes to analyze journalistic practice in a ...
Newspaper Building Design and Journalism Cultures in Australia and the UK: 1855–2010
1st Edition
By Carole O'Reilly, Josie Vine
October 08, 2024
This book examines the micro-cultural ideologies of the journalism profession in Britain and Australia by focusing on the design, execution and development of newspaper building architecture. Concentrating on the main newspaper buildings in some of the major metropolitan areas in Australia (...
Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism: Models, Languages, and Storytelling
1st Edition
Edited
By Berta García-Orosa, Sara Pérez-Seijo, Ángel Vizoso
August 26, 2024
Emerging Practices in the Age of Automated Digital Journalism provides detailed insight into the current state of journalism and its future challenges. The book brings together a global team of authors to review and analyse emerging practices in the automated digital scenario through which ...
Global Pandemics and Media Ethics: Issues and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Tendai Chari, Martin N. Ndlela
August 26, 2024
This topical volume illuminates ethical issues brought to the fore by the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing on a broad range of case studies from different regions, it provides insights into the multiple and complex ways in which the pandemic has shaped media ethics. The chapters employ a wide range of ...