Despite its increasing attention for audiences, journalism studies remains an inherently
production-focused discipline. Consequently, studying the perspective of audiences tends to …

From the perspective of journalism, weblogs can be seen as a new category of news and
current affairs communication. Although most weblogs do not even pretend to be journalistic …

In analysing the news media's role in serving the functions associated with democratic
citizenship, the number, diversity and range of news sources are central. Research …

T HE IDEAL GOAL OF TRADITIONAL JOURNALISM HAS been to make power accountable:
to keep ordinary citizens apprised of what government is doing, and how it affects them both …

Journalism as we know it has developed intertwined with a particular business, the business
of news. Developments in this business have, in turn, simultaneously sustained and …

The interrelation between sources and news media is a key issue for the sociology of
journalism. The study of media in Western capitalist democracies is inextricably bound up …