[ecrea] New book Br(e)aking the News

Br(e)aking the News, published by Peter Lang and edited by Janey Gordon, 
Paul Rowinski and Gavin Stewart.

http://www.peterlang.com/index.cfm?event=cmp.ccc.seitenstruktur.detailseiten&seitentyp=produkt&pk=69598&cid=538
Book synopsis

What is the breaking news in the world today? How did you find out this 
news? How do you know it is true? Was it reported ethically? What checks 
and balances are being put on the news media?
The answers to these questions reflect the themes of this book. The 
chapters are by experienced journalists, academics and practitioners in 
the field. They unravel and clearly present the recent and on-going 
developments in journalism and the press around the globe, including the 
US, Europe, Asia and Africa. Chapters deal with the phone hacking and 
data thefts in the UK that provoked a major inquiry into press ethics 
and standards. Twitter is examined and found to be a valuable tool for 
reporters in the Arab world and research shows how, in Australia, 
readers use Twitter to pass along news topics. Chapters also explore the 
use of the mobile phone to access news in sub-Saharan Nigeria, the role 
of media magnates in presenting political views in Europe, and 
Wikipedia’s representation of conflict. This collection of fourteen 
chapters by leading authors examines journalism as practised today and 
what we might expect from it in the future.


Contents: Julian Petley: Leveson and Operation Motorman: lessons from a 
debacle over data protection – Kate Ironside: Closing Time at the Last 
Chance Saloon? Phone hacking and the future of press regulation – Ivor 
Gaber: The many faces of Rupert Murdoch: as revealed by his evidence to 
the UK’s Leveson Inquiry into the Cultures. Ethics and Practices of the 
Press – Paul Rowinski: Berlusconi, Murdoch and the power of persuasion 
over Europe – Jon Silverman: Cats, convicts and clerics: how the media 
and politicians have framed the Human Rights Act – Ali Usman 
Saleem/Sayeeda Syed: Terrorism Radio, Coercion and Illiteracy – Janey 
Gordon/Umar Lawal Maradun: Radio Audiences and Mobile Phones: the case 
in northern Nigeria – Tim Markham: The Uses of Seriousness: Arab 
Journalists Tweet the 2011-12 Uprisings – Lee Hall/Neil Farrington/John 
Price: Twitter, Disintermediation and the Changing Role of the Sports 
Journalist – Axel Bruns/Tim Highfield/Stephen Harrington: Sharing the 
News: Dissemination of Links to Australian News Sites on Twitter – Sonya 
Yan Song/Fei Shen/Mike Z. Yao/Steven S. Wildman: Un/masking News in 
Cyberspace: Examining Censorship Patterns of News Portal Sites in China 
– David R. Brake: Journalists, User Generated Content and Digital 
Divides – Susan Jacobson: Br(e)aking the News: The End of American 
Journalism Education – Gavin Stewart: Wikipedia and War.

We hope you and your students enjoy reading it!

Dr Janey Gordon
Principal Lecturer
Radio LaB Project Leader
University of Bedfordshire
(janey.gordon /at/ beds.ac.uk)

---------------
ECREA-Mailing list
---------------
This mailing list is a free service from ECREA and Nico Carpentier.
--
To subscribe, post or unsubscribe, please visit
http://www.ecrea.eu/mailinglist
--
ECREA - European Communication Research and Education Association
--
Postal address:
ECREA
Chaussée de Waterloo 1151
1180 Uccle
Belgium
--
Email: (info /at/ ecrea.eu)
URL: http://www.ecrea.eu
---------------