The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism (Paperback, 1)

CONTENTS

List of tables and figures

List of contributors

Introduction: the new terrain of mediated politics

1 The origins and development of political journalism in Britain

2 Partial news: election editorializing in inter-war Britain

3 Reinventing political reporting: Outsides, disruptors and innovators

4 Political news and the ‘celebrity frame’

5 Evolving journalism norms: Objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism

PART II

6 The Scottish independence referendum, political journalism and the news media landscape

7 Local political journalism: Systematic pressures on the normative functions of local news

8 Political journalism in a hybrid media landscape: A Scandinavian policy perspective

9 Hungary’s clientelistic media system

10 Political journalism in the Russian media system: Journalistic professionalization in the context of digital media

11 Internet-led political journalism: Challenging hybrid regime resilience in Malaysia

12 Journalism in Myanmar: Freedom, Facebook and fake news

13 The new populisms: A key dynamic of mediated populisms

14 The Renewed visibility of populism: are social media the culprit?

15 Strategies of alternative right-wing media: The case of Breitbart News

16 Putin, partisanship and the press: Comparing Russian media reporting of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei Skripal

17 Political journalism by other means: An African perspective

18 What kind of Italy? The cultural battle waged by a European populist leader against Brussels

19 Populist candidates in the age of social media: Media portrayals of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential bid in Brazil

PART IV

20 ‘How can you stand there and say you didn’t overspend and end up bankrupting this country?’ Power, propaganda and public understanding of the economy

21 The resiliency of partisan selective exposure

22 Digital media and the proliferation of public opinion cues online: Biases and vulnerabilities in the new attention economy

Andrew R.N. Ross,  Andrew Chadwick, and Cristian Vaccari

23 Gate-watching and news curation

Axel Bruns

24 Walking the line: Political journalism and social media publicsMarcel Broersma

24 ‘Viral journalism’, is it a thing? Adapting quality reporting to shifting social media algorithms and wavering audiences

26 Reporting on white supremacy: challenges of amplification, legitimization and mainstreaming for political journalism

27 Protecting the citizen: Political journalists as gatekeepers in the digital age

28 Media effects on perceptions of societal problems: Belief formation in fragmented media environments

29 Agenda-setting theory in a networked world

30 Influencing the public agenda in the social media era: Questioning the role of mainstream political journalism from the digital landscape

31 The delegitimizing potential of Internet memes in political communication: A Case study of the 2020 US election

32 Telling tales: Gender and political journalism

33 The Role of audiences in television leaders’ debates and political journalism

PART VI

34 Journalistic work in cultures of protest: A transnational review

35 Who’s punching who? Examining advocacy reporting and commercial restraints in TV satire programming

36 Pluralist public sphere or elitist closed circle? Elite-driven agendas and contributor ‘chemistry’ as determinants of pundit choice on a flagship BBC politics

37 The importance of space in photojournalists’ accounts of the anti-austerity protests in Greece

38 Scotland and period poverty: A case study of activists’ media and political agenda-setting

Fiona McKay

39 Continental drift: Historical perspectives on the framing of ‘Europe’ in the British press

Simon Gwyn Roberts

40 8M and the Huelga General Feminista, 2019-2020: feminist engagement with state, capital and Spain’s ‘clase politica’