Journalism Studies

News for the Rich, White, and Blue

How Place and Power Distort American Journalism Nikki Usher

In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18467-0 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-18466-3 June 2021 14 illus. Media Capture

How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News Edited by Anya Schiffrin

Media Capture features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics on the changing nature and peril of media capture—how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors consider diverse cases of media capture worldwide, many drawn from firsthand experience.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18883-8 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18882-1 June 2021 352 pages

Information Security Essentials

A Guide for Reporters, Editors, and Newsroom Leaders Susan E. McGregor

This book is an essential guide to protecting news writers, sources, and organizations in the digital era. Susan E. McGregor provides a systematic understanding of the key technical, legal, and conceptual issues that anyone teaching, studying, or practicing journalism should know.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19233-0 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19232-3 June 2021 232 pages 4 illus. Regardless of Frontiers

Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World Edited by Lee C. Bollinger and Agnes Callamard

Regardless of Frontiers brings together leading experts from a variety of fields to critically evaluate the extent to which global norms on freedom of expression and information have been established and are being challenged from the rise of populism and authoritarian governments to the profound disruption introduced by the internet.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19699-4 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-19698-7 February 2021 440 pages

The Perilous Public Square

Structural Threats to Free Expression Today Edited by David E. Pozen

The Perilous Public Square brings together leading thinkers to identify and investigate today’s multifaceted threats to free expression. Contributors go beyond the campus and the courthouse to pinpoint key structural changes in the means of mass communication and forms of global capitalism.

$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-19713-7 $120.00 / £100.00 cloth 978-0-231-19712-0 2020 408 pages Social Media and the Public Interest

Media Regulation in the Disinformation Age Philip M. Napoli

Philip M. Napoli offers a timely and persuasive case for seeing social media as news media, with a fundamental obligation to serve the public interest. Social Media and the Public Interest offers valuable insights for the democratic governance and regulation of today’s most influential shapers of news.

$35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-18454-0 2019 296 pages

Journalism in the Age of Virtual Reality

How Experiential Media Are Transforming News John V. Pavlik

John V. Pavlik argues that a new form of media has emerged: experiential news, which delivers not just news stories but also news experiences, in which the consumer engages as a participant or virtual eyewitness in immersive, multisensory, and interactive narratives.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18449-6 $90.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-18448-9 2019 296 pages Newsmakers

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Journalism Francesco Marconi

Will the use of artificial intelligence, algorithms, and smart machines be the end of journalism as we know it—or its savior? Francesco Marconi, who has led the development of AI at the Associated Press and Wall Street Journal, offers a new perspective on the potential of these technologies.

$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19137-1 $85.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-19136-4 2020 216 pages 25 illus.