'News and Journalism in the UK' is an accessible & comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of UK press and broadcast journalism. It examines the main trends in journalistic media in the last two decades and assesses the future of the industry in the new millennium.

Journalism is a privileged cultural form. It can bring down governments,
influence wars, shift stock markets and destroy industries. It is the
main source of our knowledge about the world and our place in it, and
the point at which the individual and the social worlds meet.



Referring
to cases drawn from both the US and the UK, including the White House
sex scandals and the death of Diana, this book examines the various
factors involved in the making of contemporary journalism, including
economic and political pressures, changes in the...

News and Journalism in the UK 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 in the new millennium.

Integrating both academic and journalistic perspectives on journalism, topics addressed in this revised and...

Porno? Chic examines the relationship between the proliferation of pornography and sexualised culture in the West and social and cultural trends which have advanced the rights of women and homosexuals. Brian McNair addresses this relationship with an analysis of trends in sexualised culture since 2002 linked to a transnational analysis of change in sexual politics and sex/gender relations in a range of societies, from the sexually liberalised societies of advanced capitalism to those in which women and homosexuals remain tightly controlled by authoritarian, patriarchal regimes. In this...

We both love and hate our journalists. They are perceived as sexy and glamorous on the one hand, despicable and sleazy on the other. Opinion polls regularly indicate that we experience a kind of cultural schizophrenia in our relationship to journalists and the news media: sometimes they are viewed as heroes, at other times villains. From Watergate to the fabrication scandals of the 2000s, journalists have risen and fallen in public esteem. In this book, leading journalism studies scholar Brian McNair explores how journalists have been represented through the prism of one of our key cultural...