British Journalism Today

📖 The Scoop

British Journalism Today is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Britain and Northern Ireland.

Surveying the industry in a period of radical economic and technological change, Brian McNair examines the main trends in journalistic media in the last two decades and assesses the challenges and future of the industry.

Integrating both academic and journalistic perspectives on journalism, topics addressed in this radically revised and updated edition include:

• the growth of multi-platform journalism
• an explanation of terms such as computational journalism, digital journalism, and data journalism
• Leveson, News International and other major debates following the 2011 phone-hacking scandal
• new case studies on the role of the media in the Arab Spring; the Madeleine McCann story; the UK general election of 2011
• a new chapter looking at the evolving formal structure of news - which genres and types have risen in importance since the late 2000s? Has the concept of journalism itself been altered in the wake of UGC, social media, and other technology-driven trends?

Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism (fancy, right?)