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NEWS AND JOURNALISM IN THE UK 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 over the past two decades and assesses both the challenges facing the industry and its future in the new millennium. Integrating academic and journalistic perspectives on journalism, topics addressed in this revised and updated edition include: • • • • • ‘tabloidisation’, Americanisation and the supposed ‘dumbing down’ of journalistic standards changing work patterns and the feminisation of journalism trends in media ownership and editorial allegiances the impact of technological innovations such as digitalisation, on-line media and 24-hour news 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 (third edition, 2003), The Sociology of Journalism (1998) and Journalism and Democracy (2000). COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY Series editor: James Curran GLASNOST, PERESTROIKA AND THE SOVIET MEDIA Brian McNair PLURALISM, POLITICS AND THE MARKETPLACE The regulation of German broadcasting Vincent Porter and Suzanne Hasselbach 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 MEDIA MOGULS Jeremy Tunstall and Michael Palmer FIELDS IN VISION Television sport and cultural transformation Garry Whannel 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 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 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 Langer INTERNATIONAL RADIO JOURNALISM History, theory and practice Tim Crook MEDIA, RITUAL AND IDENTITY Edited by Tamar Liebes and James Curran DE-WESTERNIZING MEDIA STUDIES Edited by James Curran and Myung-Jin Park BRITISH CINEMA IN THE FIFTIES Christine Geraghty ILL EFFECTS The media violence debate, second edition Edited by Martin Barker and Julian Petley MEDIA AND POWER James Curran JOURNALISM AFTER SEPTEMBER 11 Edited by Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allan NEWS AND JOURNALISM IN THE UK Fourth edition Brian McNair AN INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL COMMUNICATION Third edition Brian McNair NEWS AND JOURNALISM IN THE UK Fourth edition Brian McNair First published 1994 by Routledge This edition published 2003 by Ro