[Commlist] New Book: Analytical Journalism. A Guide to Science-based Explanatory Journalistic Practice

  New Book: Analytical Journalism. A Guide to Science-based Explanatory
  Journalistic Practice

“Analytical Journalism. A Guide to Science-based Explanatory 
Journalistic Practice” by

Flemming Svith has just been published (Routledge, July 31, 2023), and 
it will be of interest to scholars, advanced journalism students and 
practitioners exploring alternative forms of journalism.

This book offers a first-of-its-kind guide to an emerging form of 
science-based journalism.

Posited as a practical alternative to other more traditional forms of 
event-driven news reporting, analytical journalism relies on metatheory 
and methodology to highlight causal factors such as goals, norms, 
behaviours and social frameworks when covering events. Seen as adjacent 
to investigative and data journalism, analytical journalism seeks to 
provide a solution to the simplification and under-reporting of the 
causal context by drawing on scientific research and data to offer a 
deeper understanding of news events. Central to this new field is public 
understanding; providing news consumers with the information they 
require to navigate and act with nuance in the real world. Drawing on 
the author’s experience of teaching analytical journalism at the 
postgraduate level, this book summarises the aims and theory of the 
field and contains practical tools to help improve journalists’ 
contribution to shared public knowledge, including methods and examples 
of identifying and justifying new causal explanations of an issue.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: The analytical journalism approach

Chapter 3: The framework for causal explanation

Chapter 4: The strategy for mapping causes in media coverage

Chapter 5: The strategy for generating causal hypotheses

Chapter 6: The strategy for justifying causal explanation

Chapter 7: The strategy for convincing issue frames

Chapter 8: Guidelines, best practice criteria and learning tools

About the author: Flemming Svith is a senior researcher in journalism 
and director of the Center for Journalism and Democracy at the Danish 
School of Media and Journalism. He holds a PhD in social sciences, an MA 
in history and a BA in journalism.

More about the book:

https://www.routledge.com/Analytical-Journalism-A-Guide-to-Science-based-Explanatory-Journalistic/Svith/p/book/9781032293028 
<https://www.routledge.com/Analytical-Journalism-A-Guide-to-Science-based-Explanatory-Journalistic/Svith/p/book/9781032293028>

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