Henry Silke lectures in journalism at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include ideology, the political economy of journalism and the role of communications and journalism in economic systems.Fergal Quinn lectures in journalism at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research focuses on comparative ethical norms in journalism, media representation of minorities and risk communication.Maria Rieder is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research focuses on social and economic inequality, minority communities and languages, language in the media, social movements and intercultural communication, with a specific focus on the role of language in the production of power and social conflict.

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• Introduction: Journalism, Discourse and the Reproduction of InequalityHenry Silke, Fergal Quinn and Maria Rieder1. ‘Piketty is a genius, but … ’: an analysis of journalistic delegitimation of Thomas Piketty’s economic policy proposals Maria Rieder and Hendrik Theine2. Denying, downplaying, debating: defensive discourses of inequality in the debate on Piketty Andrea Grisold and Henry Silke3. ‘Overpaid’ and ‘inefficient’: print media framings of the public sector in The Irish Times and The Irish Independent during the financial crisis Aileen Marron4. Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EUCiara Graham and Brendan K. O’Rourke5. Her name was Clodagh: Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicideFergal Quinn, Muireann Prendergast and Audrey Galvin6. Discourses of tragedy: a comparative corpus-based study of newspaper reportage of the Berkeley balcony collapse and Carrickmines fireFergal Quinn and Elaine Vaughan7. Fake news? A critical analysis of the ‘Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All’ campaign in IrelandEoin Devereux and Martin J. Power8. Narrowing the discourse? Growing precarity in freelance journalism and its effect on the construction of news discourseKathryn Hayes and Henry Silke

Henry Silke lectures in journalism at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research interests include ideology, the political economy of journalism and the role of communications and journalism in economic systems.Fergal Quinn lectures in journalism at the University of Limerick, Ireland. His research focuses on comparative ethical norms in journalism, media representation of minorities and risk communication.Maria Rieder is Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Her research focuses on social and economic inequality, minority communities and languages, language in the media, social movements and intercultural communication, with a specific focus on the role of language in the production of power and social conflict.

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• Introduction: Journalism, Discourse and the Reproduction of InequalityHenry Silke, Fergal Quinn and Maria Rieder1. ‘Piketty is a genius, but … ’: an analysis of journalistic delegitimation of Thomas Piketty’s economic policy proposals Maria Rieder and Hendrik Theine2. Denying, downplaying, debating: defensive discourses of inequality in the debate on Piketty Andrea Grisold and Henry Silke3. ‘Overpaid’ and ‘inefficient’: print media framings of the public sector in The Irish Times and The Irish Independent during the financial crisis Aileen Marron4. Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EUCiara Graham and Brendan K. O’Rourke5. Her name was Clodagh: Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicideFergal Quinn, Muireann Prendergast and Audrey Galvin6. Discourses of tragedy: a comparative corpus-based study of newspaper reportage of the Berkeley balcony collapse and Carrickmines fireFergal Quinn and Elaine Vaughan7. Fake news? A critical analysis of the ‘Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All’ campaign in IrelandEoin Devereux and Martin J. Power8. Narrowing the discourse? Growing precarity in freelance journalism and its effect on the construction of news discourseKathryn Hayes and Henry Silke