There is no doubt, journalism faces challenging times. Since the turn of the millennium, the
financial health of the news industry is failing, mainstream audiences are on the decline, and …

This book is intended as an introduction to the social theory of journalism. It covers a wide
range of issues, but with a particular focus on the expectations of society from journalism …

This book explores the current challenges faced by those working in the news media,
focusing on the responsibilities of journalism in advanced democracies. The contributors …

This handbook seeks to provide a sense of what we know about one of the most important
social, cultural, and political institutions: journalism. Journalism has been around “since …

Executive summary The business of journalism is widely held to be in serious crisis today, in
particular because of the rise of the internet. This has potentially disastrous consequences …

There have never been so many ways of producing news and news-like content. From
podcasts, to YouTube, blogs and the phenomenal popularity of social media, seismic shifts …

This article presents a new institutionalism approach to news grounded in sociological and
historical approaches to new institutionalism and argues that this approach to news …

The business of journalism has an extensive, storied, and often romanticized history.
Newspaper reporting has long shaped the way that we see the world, played key roles in …

It's easy to make a rhetorical case for the value of journalism. Because, it is a necessary
precondition for democracy; it speaks to the people and for the people; it informs citizens …

Media scholars and journalists expect local media to function as vital institutions for the
creation and maintenance of a democratic political and public arena and a general sense of …