Key Concepts in Journalism Studies

The SAGE Key Concepts series provide students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding.

Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.

Key Concepts in Journalism offers:

- a systematic and accessible introduction to the terms, processes, and effects of journalism

- a combination of practical considerations with theoretical issues

- further reading suggestions

The authors bring an enormous range of experience in newspaper and broadcast journalism, at national and regional level, as well as their teaching expertise.

This book will be essential reading for students in journalism, and an invaluable reference tool for their professional careers.

Sample entries include:

Adversarial Journalism / Audience / Bad News / Bias / Context Analysis / Cyberspace / Defamation / Dumbing Down / Editor / Embargo / Embedded Journalist / Ethics / Focus Groups / Free Newspaper / Gatekeeper / Hard News /Ideology / Impartiality / Infotainment / Investigative Journalism / Mass Communication / Media Effects / Media Mogul / Multimedia / Myth / Narrative / New Media / News Management / Off the Record / Online Journalism / Photojournalism / Propaganda / Self-regulation / Sensationalism / Tabloid / Television / Watergate