This new book addresses a key issue in current debates around journalistic theory and practice. Drawing on his extensive research and teaching experience in this field, Guy Starkey offers a clearly structured, easily accessible discussion of "balance" in the media, and the difficulties inherent in both achieving and measuring it. Providing an analysis of theoretical issues, an exploration of practical considerations, and a review of methods for assessing journalistic output, it will appeal to students of journalism and media studies.
This new book addresses a key issue in current debates around journalistic theory and practice. Drawing on his extensive research and teaching experie...
Radio Journalism introduces key themes in journalism studies to explore what makes radio reporting distinctive and lay out the claims for radio's critical importance in the news landscape.
With their extensive experience in radio production and academica, authors Guy Starkey and Andrew Crisell take readers on a tour through the past, present and future of radio broadcasting, from the infancy of the BBC in the 1920s up to the prospect of rolling news delivered to mobile telephones. Grounding each chapter in a survey of scholarly writing on the radio, they...
Radio Journalism introduces key themes in journalism studies to explore what makes radio reporting distinctive and lay out the claims for radio...
Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students with a practical, critical and comprehensive understanding of the main principles and techniques used in radio programming. Organized around the most commonly studied radio genres and setting production within a range of different contexts - professional, institutional and historical - the text offers an ideal blend of theory and practical guidance. Readers of this fully updated new edition will continue to benefit from this core text, as...
Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students...
Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students with a practical, critical and comprehensive understanding of the main principles and techniques used in radio programming. Organized around the most commonly studied radio genres and setting production within a range of different contexts - professional, institutional and historical - the text offers an ideal blend of theory and practical guidance. Readers of this fully updated new edition will continue to benefit from this core text, as...
Now firmly established as one of the leading textbooks in the increasingly popular field of radio studies, Radio in Context provides students...
An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and locally-accountable commercial radio stations to fall into the hands of national and international media groups. Starkey traces the early development of local radio through to present-day digital environments.
An examination of the development of local radio broadcasting and the trend for locally-owned, locally-originated and locally-accountable commercial r...
Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an accessible exploration of the key issues effecting television, radio and multiplatform forms of journalism today. The authors balance discussions of industry practice with critical examinations of content produced in a number of professional contexts. Highlighting key issues including ownership and shifting regulatory environments, the ethics of broadcast journalism, the revolutionary role of user-generated-content, and digital convergence, the work also features discussions of global issues such as the coverage of the rise of ISIS,...
Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an accessible exploration of the key issues effecting television, radio and multiplatform form...
Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an accessible exploration of the key issues effecting television, radio and multiplatform forms of journalism today. The authors balance discussions of industry practice with critical examinations of content produced in a number of professional contexts. Highlighting key issues including ownership and shifting regulatory environments, the ethics of broadcast journalism, the revolutionary role of user-generated-content, and digital convergence, the work also features discussions of global issues such as the coverage of the rise of ISIS,...
Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an accessible exploration of the key issues effecting television, radio and multiplatform form...