News and Politics: The Rise of Live and Interpretive Journalism

ISBN-13: 9780415744713 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 182 str.

Stephen Cushion

Opis

News and Politics critically examines television news bulletins - still the primary source of information for most people - and asks whether the wider pace and immediacy of 24-hour news culture has influenced their format and style over time. Drawing on the concepts of mediatization and journalistic interventionism, Stephen Cushion empirically traces the shift from edited to live reporting from a cross-national perspective, focussing on the two-way convention in political coverage and the more interpretive approach to journalism it promotes. Challenging prevailing academic wisdom, Cushion argues that the mediatization of news does not necessarily reflect a commercial logic or a lowering of journalism standards. In particular, the rise of live two-ways can potentially enhance viewers' understanding of public affairs - moving reporters beyond their visual backdrops and reliance on political soundbites - by asking journalists to scrutinize the actions of political elites, interpret competing source claims and to explain the broader context to everyday stories. Considering the future of 24-hour news, a final discussion asks whether new content and social media platforms - including Twitter and Buzzfeed - enhance or weaken democratic culture. This timely analysis of News and Politics is ideal for students of political communication and journalism studies, as well as communication studies, media studies, and political science.

Spis treści

Introduction - From Mediation to Mediatization 1. Interpreting news conventions as journalistic interventions: exploring the changing nature of television journalism and political reporting 2. Embracing or resisting a rolling news logic? Understanding the changing character of television news bulletins 3. The media logic of immediacy: The mediatization of politics on UK news bulletins 4. Comparing news cultures and media systems: developing a comparative study of television news bulletins in the UK, US and Norway 5. The rise of live news and the two-way convention: evaluating the value of journalistic interventionism 6. Interpreting the impact and consequences of the mediatization of news and politics 7. Interpreting 24/7 journalism on new content and social media platforms: The online challenges and future directions of news and politics

O autorze

Stephen Cushion is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. He is sole author of The Democratic Value of News: Why Public Service Media Matter (2012) and Television Journalism (2012), and co-editor of (with Justin Lewis) The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives (2010) and (with Richard Sambrook) The Future of 24-Hour News: New Directions, New Challenges (2016).