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
[email protected]
Investigative Journalism in Changing Times: Australian and Anglo-American Reporting
1st Edition
Edited
By Caryn Coatney
August 26, 2024
This book offers new insights into the crucial role of investigative journalism at a pivotal time of technological changes and upheavals. It surveys innovations and unexpected impacts of the field, from past and present challenges and what may be in store for the future of the industry. The book ...
The Media and Inequality
1st Edition
Edited
By Steve Schifferes, Sophie Knowles
August 26, 2024
This book brings together a vast range of pre-eminent experts, academics, and practitioners to interrogate the role of media in representing economic inequality. It explores and deconstructs the concept of economic inequality by examining the different dimensions of inequality and how it has ...
Journalists and Job Loss
1st Edition
Edited
By Timothy Marjoribanks, Lawrie Zion, Penny O’Donnell, Merryn Sherwood
September 25, 2023
Journalists and Job Loss explores the profound disruption of journalism work in the 21st century’s networked digital media environment. The chapters analyse how journalists have experienced and navigated job loss, re-employment, career change and career re-invention as traditional patterns of ...
COVID-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch
May 31, 2023
Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Responses is one of the first books uniting an international team of scholars to investigate how media address critical social, political, and health issues connected to the 2020-21 COVID-19 outbreak. The book evaluates unique civic challenges, ...
Global Media Ethics and the Digital Revolution
1st Edition
Edited
By Noureddine Miladi
May 31, 2023
This volume responds to the challenges posed by the rapid developments in satellite TV and digital technologies, addressing media ethics from a global perspective to discuss how we can understand journalism practice in its cultural contexts. An international team of contributors draw upon global ...
The Political Relevance of Food Media and Journalism: Beyond Reviews and Recipes
1st Edition
Edited
By Elizabeth Fakazis, Elfriede Fürsich
January 31, 2023
Interrogating the intersections of food, journalism, and politics, this book offers a critical examination of food media and journalism, and its political potential against the backdrop of contemporary social challenges. Contributors analyze current and historic examples such as #BlackLivesMatter, ...
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation
1st Edition
By Seungahn Nah, Deborah S. Chung
August 29, 2022
Understanding Citizen Journalism as Civic Participation re-conceptualizes citizen journalism in the context of Habermas’s theory of the public sphere and communicative action, to examine how citizen journalism practice as civic participation may contribute to a heathier community and democracy in ...
Beyond Journalistic Norms: Role Performance and News in Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Claudia Mellado
August 01, 2022
Beyond Journalistic Norms contests and challenges pre-established assumptions about a dominant type of journalism prevailing in different political, economic, and geographical contexts to posit the fluid, and dynamic nature of journalistic roles. The book brings together scholars from Western and ...
Journalism and Digital Labor: Experiences of Online News Production
1st Edition
By Tai Neilson
August 01, 2022
This book investigates journalists’ work practices, professional ideologies, and the power relations that impact their work, arguing that reporters’ lives and livelihoods are shaped by digital technologies and new modes of capital accumulation. Tai Neilson weaves together ethnographic approaches ...
Journalists and Confidential Sources: Colliding Public Interests in the Age of the Leak
1st Edition
By Joseph M Fernandez
August 01, 2022
Journalists and Confidential Sources explores the fraught and widespread reliance by journalists on anonymous sources, whistleblowers, and others to whom they owe an obligation of confidentiality. It examines the difficulties afflicting such relationships; analyses the deteriorating "right to know"...
Newsroom-Classroom Hybrids at Universities: Student Labor and the Journalism Crisis
1st Edition
By Gunhild Ring Olsen
August 01, 2022
This book investigates the success of U.S. nonprofit university centers, where students work alongside investigative reporters, from a professional and educational perspective. Drawing on a detailed investigation of four of the most prominent and renowned centers in the U.S. – the IRP Berkeley (UC...
Investigative Journalism, Democracy and the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Andrea Carson
June 30, 2021
Theoretically grounded and using quantitative data spanning more than 50 years together with qualitative research, this book examines investigative journalism’s role in liberal democracies in the past and in the digital age. In its ideal form, investigative reporting provides a check on power in ...