Table Of ContentTHE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION
TO NEWS AND JOURNALISM
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, organized thematically over seven sections, contributions examine a
range of pressing challenges for news reporting – including digital convergence, mobile plat-
forms, web analytics and datafication, social media polarization, and the use of drones. Jour-
nalism’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.
Stuart Allan is Professor of Journalism and Communication in the School of Journalism,
Media and Culture, Cardiff University, UK.
THE ROUTLEDGE
COMPANION TO NEWS
AND JOURNALISM
SECOND EDITION
Edited by Stuart Allan
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CONTENTS
List of figures x
List of tables xi
Notes on contributors xii
Introduction: The Value(s) of Truth-Seeking in News and Journalism 1
Stuart Allan
PART I
Journalism and Democracy 15
1 News and the Public Sphere 17
C.W. Anderson
2 India’s Imperiled Public Sphere: Challenges to Independent
Journalism in the World’s Largest Democracy 26
Kalyani Chadha
3 The Political Economy of Contemporary Journalism and the Crisis
of Public Knowledge 36
Peter Golding and Graham Murdock
4 Journalism and Community Engagement as if Democracy Matters 46
Lana F. Rakow
5 The So-Called “Crisis” of Trust in Journalism 55
Rachel E. Moran
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Contents
6 Journalists, Epistemology, and Authority 64
Matt Carlson
7 Social Roles of Journalism 73
Tim P. Vos
8 Bargaining with Local Journalism’s Value 82
Kristy Hess and Lisa Waller
PART II
Rewriting the Rules of Reporting 91
9 Journalism’s Multiple Gods: Objectivity, Its Variants, and Its Rivals 93
Michael Schudson
10 Newsroom Cultures at Risk? Journalism’s Reliance on Web Metrics
and Analytics 102
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon and Avery E. Holton
11 The Changing Status of Women Journalists 111
Linda Steiner and Dinfin Mulupi
12 Digital Journalism in China: Media Convergence, the ‘Central
Kitchen’ and the Platformization of News 121
Jing Meng and Shixin Ivy Zhang
13 Convergent Journalism: Cross-Media Content Strategies to Improve
the Quality of Thai News Reporting 130
Sakulsri Srisaracam
14 Pop Up Newsrooms: From New Collaborations to
Counter Narratives 139
Melissa Wall
15 Online Trolling of Journalists 149
Silvio Waisbord
PART III
News, Mobilities and Data 159
16 Witnessing George Floyd: Tracing Black Mobile Journalism’s Rise,
Impact and Enduring Questions 161
Allissa V. Richardson
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Contents
17 Mobility, Smartphones and News 170
Andrew Duffy and Oscar Westlund
18 Journalism and Data Justice: Critically Reporting Datafication 179
Arne Hintz, Emiliano Treré and Naomi Owen
19 Balancing between “Statistical Panic” and “Statistical Boredom”:
News, Numbers and Narratives in the Risk Society 188
Brendan Lawson and An Nguyen
20 Hybrid Journalism 197
Stephen D. Reese
21 Podcast Journalism and Performative Transparency 207
Mia Lindgren
22 Drone Journalism: The Invisibility of the Aerial View 217
Jonas Harvard
PART IV
Crisis, Conflict and War Reporting 227
23 News Reporting of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Perspectives from the
Global South 229
Sara Chinnasamy and Felipe F. Salvosa II
24 Risk Journalism and Globalized Crisis Ecologies: Journalists as
‘Cosmopolitan’ Actors 239
Ingrid Volkmer
25 Video Journalism and Human Rights 248
Sandra Ristovska
26 Beyond Verification: UGC as Embodied Testimony in Conflict News 258
Lilie Chouliaraki and Omar Al-Ghazzi
27 The Ethics of War Reporting 267
Donald Matheson
28 News Reporting of Pakistan and the War on Terror 276
Shahzad Ali and Ahmer Safwan
29 Photojournalism and the US-Led Invasion of Afghanistan 286
Stuart Allan
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Contents
PART V
Representing Realities 297
30 Journalism and Environmental Futures 299
Libby Lester
31 News Reporting of Poverty and Inequality 307
Jairo Lugo-Ocando
32 Journalism and Gender Violence 317
Lisa M. Cuklanz
33 Women in Sports News: Challenges Posed by the Emergence of
Popular Feminism 325
Erin Whiteside
34 Celebrity News Online: Changing Media, Actors, and Stories 334
Anne Jerslev and Mette Mortensen
35 Girls, News, and Public Cultures 343
Cynthia Carter and Kaitlynn Mendes
36 Socially Responsible Journalism: Diverse Responses to Polarisation 352
Laura Ahva
PART VI
Envisioning Alternative Journalisms 363
37 News Audiences and the Challenges of Digital Citizenship 365
Chris Peters
38 Contextualizing Citizen Visual Journalism: Narrative and Testimony 374
Mary Angela Bock
39 Citizen Journalism, Electoral Conflict and Peacebuilding Processes in
Kenya and Zimbabwe 384
Jacinta Maweu and Admire Mare
40 Journalism and Counterpublics: Is Journalism for All the People? 394
Bolette B. Blaagaard
41 News Literacy Practice in a Culture of Infodemic 403
Paul Mihailidis
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42 Journalism and Ethnoracial Minorities 412
Sherry S. Yu and George L. Daniels
43 Teaching Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Journalism Students as
Change Agents? 421
Marcel Broersma and Jane B. Singer
PART VII
Globalising Journalisms 431
44 Comparing Journalistic Cultures across Nations 433
Folker Hanusch
45 Fringe Benefits: Weekly Magazines and Access Journalism in Japan 442
David McNeill and Kaori Hayashi
46 Arab Investigative Journalism: Exploring Processes of Cultural Change 451
Saba Bebawi
47 Theorizing Journalism and the Global South 460
Bruce Mutsvairo and Kristin Skare Orgeret
48 Mapping Anti-Press Violence in Latin America: Challenges for
Journalists’ Safety 469
Mireya Márquez-Ramírez
49 Devalued News Workers in the Labor of International Journalism:
Local Stringers and Fixers 478
Lindsay Palmer
50 Digital Journalistic Cultures on Social Media 487
Claudia Mellado
Index 497
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