Introduction: Entangling and disentangling governance and the media ~ Thomas Schillemans and Jon Pierre;
Governance and the media: exploring the linkages ~ B. Guy Peters;
Media and public accountability: typology and research agenda ~ Sandra Jacobs and Thomas Schillemans;
Political control or legitimacy deficit? Bureaucracies' symbolic responses to bottom-up public pressures ~ Saar Alon-Barkat and Sharon Gilad;
Mediatised local government: social media activity and media strategies among local government officials 1989–2010 ~ Monika Djerf-Pierre and Jon Pierre;
Fighting or fumbling with the beast? The mediatisation of public sector agencies in Australia and the Netherlands ~ Thomas Schillemans;
The mediatisation of university governance: a theoretical and empirical exploration of some side-effects ~ Andres Friedrichsmeier and Frank Marcinkowski;
Managing commercialised media attention in complex governance networks: positive and negative effects on network performance ~ Erik Hans Klijn;
Over-responsibilised and over-blamed: elected actors in media reporting on network governance. A comparative analysis in eight European metropolitan areas ~ Karin Hasler, Daniel Küebler, Anna Christmann and Frank Marcinkowksi.