[ecrea] Political Journalism in Transition: Western Europe in a Comparative Perspective

Members might be interested in the following book just published 
entitled Political Journalism in Transition: Western Europe in a 
Comparative Perspective. It is edited by Raymond Kuhn and Rasmus Kleis 
Nielsen.

The 21st century has already seen dramatic changes affecting both 
journalism and politics. The rise of a range of new digital and 
networked communication technologies combined with the stagnation and 
decline of many traditional mass media has had a profound impact on 
political journalism. The arrival of new digital media has affected the 
ways in which political actors communicate with the public, with or 
without journalists as intermediaries. Newspapers that once held 
political leaders to account are now struggling to survive; broadcasters 
that once gathered whole nations for the evening news are now fighting 
for relevance faced with innumerable new competitors on cable and 
digital television; online-only media, such as blogs and social 
networking sites, are changing how we communicate about politics. News 
media remain central to political processes, but the ways in which 
journalists and politicians interact are changing. This book examines 
how and provides a comprehensive a
nd comparative analysis of the state of political journalism in Western 
Europe today, including the many challenges facing journalists in this 
important period of transition.

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Contents below
1. Political Journalism in Western Europe: Change and Continuity
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Raymond Kuhn
Part I National Case Studies
2. What’s So French About French Political Journalism?
Raymond Kuhn
3. Will Italian Political Journalism Ever Change?
Alessio Cornia
4. German Political Journalism Between Change and Stability
Carsten Reinemann and Philip Baugut
5. The Emergence of an Increasingly Competitive News
Regime in Denmark
Mark Blach-Ørsten
6. The Impact of Market Forces, New Technologies, and
Political PR on UK Journalism
Aeron Davis
POLITICAL JOURNALISM IN TRANSITION
Part II Cross-National Themes
7. Reporting the European Union: A Study in Journalistic Boredom
Olivier Baisnée
8. Do Public Service Media (Still) Matter? Evaluating the Supply, 
Quality, and Impact of Television News in Western Europe
Stephen Cushion
9. Americanisation Revisited: Political Journalism in Transition in the 
United States and Western Europe
Rasmus Kleis Nielsen
10. Changing Political News? Long-Term Trends in American, British, 
French, Italian, German, and Swiss Print Media Reporting
Andrea Umbricht and Frank Esser
11. International Journalism in Transition
Kevin Williams


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