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This revised and updated third edition is an accessible and comprehensive introduction to the political, economic and regulatory environments of press and broadcast journalism in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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NEWS AND JOURNALISM IN THE UK Third edition 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 shifts 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, this revised and updated edition identifies the main issues confronting journalism in the United Kingdom, including: • • • • • • ‘tabloidisation’, Americanisation and the supposed dumbing down’ of journalistic standards changing work patterns and the feminisation of journalism the outcome of the 1997 general election and the changing allegiances of the tabloids and broadsheets technological innovations such as digitalisation and 24-hour news the fluctuating fortunes of the Mirror Group newspapers and the change in ownership of titles and media groups the implications of devolution for regional journalists Brian McNair is Reader in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Stirling University. He is the author of An Introduction to Political Communication, second edition (1999), Images of the Enemy (1988) and Glasnost, Perestroika and the Soviet Media (1991). COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY Series Editor: James Curran GLASNOST, PERESTROIKA AND THE SOVIET MEDIA Brian McNair MEDIA MOGULS Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer PLURALISM, POLITICS AND THE MARKETPLACE The regulation of German broadcasting Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach FIELDS IN VISION Television sport and cultural transformation Garry Whannel POTBOILERS Methods, concepts and case studies in popular fiction Jerry Palmer COMMUNICATION AND CITIZENSHIP Journalism and the public sphere Edited by Peter Dahlgren and Colin Sparks SEEING AND BELIEVING The influence of television Greg Philo CRITICAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES Communication, history and theory in America Hanno Hardt GETTING THE MESSAGE News, truth and power The Glasgow Media Group ADVERTISING, THE UNEASY PERSUASION Its dubious impact on American society Michael Schudson NATION, CULTURE, TEXT Australian cultural and media studies Edited by Graeme Turner TELEVISION PRODUCERS Jeremy Tunstall NEWS AND JOURNALISM IN THE UK A textbook, third edition Brian McNair MEDIA CULTURES Reappraising transnational media Edited by Michael Stormand and Kim Christian Schroder WHAT NEWS? The market politics and the local press Bob Franklin and David Murphy IN GARAGELAND Rock, youth and modernity Johan Fornäs, Ulf Lindberg and Ove Sernhede THE CRISIS OF PUBLIC COMMUNICATION Jay G. Blumler and Michael Gurevitch GLASGOW MEDIA GROUP READER, VOLUME 1 News Content, Language and Visuals Edited by John Eldridge GLASGOW MEDIA GROUP READER, VOLUME 2 Industry, economy, war and politics Edited by Greg Philo THE GLOBAL JUKEBOX The international music industry Robert Burnett INSIDE PRIME TIME Todd Gitlin TALK ON TELEVISION Audience participation and public debate Sonia Livingstone and Peter Lunt AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Second edition Brian McNair MEDIA EFFECTS AND BEYOND Culture, socialization and lifestyles Edited by Karl Erik Rosengren WE KEEP AMERICA ON TOP OF THE WORLD Television journalism and the public sphere Daniel C. Hallin A JOURNALISM READER Edited by Michael Bromley and Tom O’Malley TABLOID TELEVISION Popular journalism and the ‘other news’ John Lan