Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. A collection with wide appeal to all media scholars, this book is particularly well suited to graduate student seminars on mass communications theory, media sociology and news scholarship.

This 2013 survey of journalists updates the findings from previous studies and asks new questions about the impact of new technologies and social media in the newsroom, and it includes more nontraditional online journalists than did the previous studies.

This 2013 survey of journalists updates the findings from previous studies and asks new questions about the impact of new technologies and social media in the newsroom, and it includes more nontraditional online journalists than did the previous studies.

Reporting Bad News addresses a gap in the literature concerning death reporting and stories of personal tragedy.

Reporting Bad News addresses a gap in the literature concerning death reporting and stories of personal tragedy.

Media Scholarship in a Transitional Age honors the significant and lasting contribution that Pamela J. Shoemaker has made to mass communications research. A collection with wide appeal to all media scholars, this book is particularly well suited to graduate student seminars on mass communications theory, media sociology and news scholarship.

This book is the result of the systematic organization and analysis of 25 years of thematic and episodic framing research in health news, creating an approach to reframe responsibility in health news in order to gain public support for health policies.