The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society

This book proposes a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system Building on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies, Hallin and Mancini identify the principal dimensions of variation in media systems and the political variables that have shaped their evolution They go on to identify three major models of media system development, the Polarized Pluralist, Democratic Corporatist, and Liberal models; to explain why the media have played a different role in politics in each of these systems; and to explore the force of change that are currently transforming them It provides a key theoretical statement about the relation between media and political systems, a key statement about the methodology of comparative analysis in political communication, and a clear overview of the variety of media institutions that have developed in the West, understood within their political and historical context

Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics

Inclusion and democracy.

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Enhancing Our Lives with Immersive Virtual Reality

PART ONE: MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY Public Communication and Public Interest Contested Territory Media Performance Traditions of Enquiry The `Public Interest' in Communication PART TWO: MEDIA PERFORMANCE NORMS Performance Norms in Media Policy Discourse The Newspaper Press Performance Norms in Media Policy Discourse Broadcasting A Framework of Principle for Media Assessment PART THREE: RESEARCH MODELS AND METHODS Media Organizational Performance Models and Research Options PART FOUR: MEDIA FREEDOM Concepts and Models of Media Freedom Media Freedom From Structure to Performance Media Freedom The Organizational Environment PART FIVE: DIVERSITY Varieties and Processes of Diversity Taking the Measure of Diversity Media Reflection Media Access and Audience Choice PART SIX: OBJECTIVITY Concepts of Objectivity A Framework for Objectivity Research Measuring Objectivity News as Information Measuring Objectivity The Evaluative Dimension of News PART SEVEN: MASS MEDIA, ORDER AND SOCIAL CONTROL Media and the Maintenance of Public Order Policing the Symbolic Environment Solidarity and Social Identity PART EIGHT: MEDIA AND CULTURE Questions of Culture and Mass Communication Cultural Identity and Autonomy Whose Media Culture? PART NINE: IN CONCLUSION Changing Media, Changing Mores Implications for Assessment

Media performance : mass communication and the public interest / Denis Mcquail

This study aims to shed light on the news selection process by examining the news values currently operational in British newspapers. The study takes as its starting point Galtung and Ruge's widely cited taxonomy of news values established in their 1965 study and puts these criteria to the test in an empirical analysis of news published in three national daily UK newspapers. A review of Galtung and Ruge's original study as well as a wider review of related literature is provided. The findings of the news content analysis are used to evaluate critically Galtung and Ruge's original criteria and to propose a contemporary set of news values.

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What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited

The deceptively simple question “What is news?” remains pertinent even as we ponder the future of journalism in the digital age. This article examines news values within mainstream journalism and considers the extent to which news values may be changing since earlier landmark studies were undertaken. Its starting point is Harcup and O’Neill’s widely-cited 2001 updating of Galtung and Ruge’s influential 1965 taxonomy of news values. Just as that study put Galtung and Ruge’s criteria to the test with an empirical content analysis of published news, this new study explores the extent to which Harcup and O’Neill’s revised list of news values remain relevant given the challenges (and opportunities) faced by journalism today, including the emergence of social media. A review of recent literature contextualises the findings of a fresh content analysis of news values within a range of UK media 15 years on from the last study. The article concludes by suggesting a revised and updated set of contemporary news values, whilst acknowledging that no taxonomy can ever explain everything.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/1461670X.2016.1150193

What is news? News values revisited (again)

Ideas about what news is and how it is selected have long fascinated the practitioners and scholars of journalism alike, although they tend to use very different language when discussing the 
subject Legendary newspaper editor Harold Evans (2000, p 2, 9) writes that “a sense of news 
values” is the fi rst quality required of copy editors-those “human sieves of the torrent of news” 
who select and edit material for publication-more important even than an ability to write or a 
command of language But when it comes to defi ning this sense of news values, “journalists rely 
on instinct rather than logic,” according to veteran television reporter John Sergeant (2001, p 
226) In contrast, academics have described the production of news as “the passive exercise of 
routine and highly regulated procedures in the task of selecting from already limited supplies of 
information” (Golding & Elliott, 1979, p 114)

News Values and Selectivity

PART ONE: WHAT IS JOURNALISM? Chapter 1: The who, what, where, when, why and how of journalism Chapter 2: Constraints, influences and ethics Chapter 3: What is news? Chapter 4: Where does news come from? Chapter 5: 'The best obtainable version of the truth': journalists as objective reporters? Chapter 6: 'Be curious and sceptical': journalists as investigators Chapter 7: 'We are in the entertainment business': journalists as entertainers PART TWO: HOW TO DO JOURNALISM Chapter 8: Interviewing for journalism Chapter 9: Writing news Chapter 10: Writing features Chapter 11: Telling it in sound and vision Chapter 12: Style for journalists PART THREE: WHAT NOW FOR JOURNALISM? Chapter 13: An ethical approach to journalism Chapter 14: Engaging with the audience and social media Chapter 15: The future is unwritten: challenges facing the journalists of tomorrow

Journalism: Principles and Practice

There is a long and continuing tradition of alternative media being produced to challenge the discourse(s) of mainstream media. This article explores the ways in which the journalism of alternative...

Tony Harcup

Papers

What Is News? Galtung and Ruge revisited

What is news? News values revisited (again)

News Values and Selectivity

Journalism: Principles and Practice

`The Unspoken - Said': The Journalism of Alternative Media