Routledge Companion to Political Journalism

James Morrison is reader in journalism at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen. A former national newspaper journalist, his research interests focus on stigmatization and othering in media and political discourse. He is the author of the monographs Familiar Strangers, Juvenile Panic and the British Press, Scroungers: Moral Panics and Media Myths and The Left Behind.Jen Birks is associate professor of media at the University of Nottingham, and co-convener of the Political Studies Association Media and Politics Group. Her research focuses on the role of publics and civil society in political media and communication. Her most recent monograph is Fact-checking Journalism and Political Argumentation.Mike Berry is senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism, Media and Culture at Cardiff University. His books include The Media, the Public and the Great Financial Crisis and (with Greg Philo) Bad News from Israel. His research primarily focuses on how media impact public knowledge and understanding of social, political and economic issues.

• CONTENTSList of tables and figures List of contributors Introduction: the new terrain of mediated politicsJames Morrison, Jen Birks and Mike BerryPART IFrom ‘truth’ to ‘post-truth’ eras? The history of political journalism1 The origins and development of political journalism in BritainBrian Cathcart2 Partial news: election editorializing in inter-war BritainDominic Wring and David Deacon3 Reinventing political reporting: Outsides, disruptors and innovatorsErik Neveu4 Political news and the ‘celebrity frame’John Corner5 Evolving journalism norms: Objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalismJen BirksPART IIPolitical journalism and media systems: Political economy and journalistic professionalism 6 The Scottish independence referendum, political journalism and the news media landscapeMarina Dekavalla7 Local political journalism: Systematic pressures on the normative functions of local newsJulie Firmstone and Rebecca Whittington8 Political journalism in a hybrid media landscape: A Scandinavian policy perspectiveSigurd Allern9 Hungary’s clientelistic media systemPéter Bajomi-Lázár10 Political journalism in the Russian media system: Journalistic professionalization in the context of digital mediaElena Vartanova11 Internet-led political journalism: Challenging hybrid regime resilience in MalaysiaNiki Cheong12 Journalism in Myanmar: Freedom, Facebook and fake newsTina BurrettPART IIIPluralism, partisanship and populism in political journalism13 The new populisms: A key dynamic of mediated populismsMichael Higgins14 The Renewed visibility of populism: are social media the culprit?Delia Dumitrica15 Strategies of alternative right-wing media: The case of Breitbart NewsJason Roberts and Karin Wahl-Jorgensen16 Putin, partisanship and the press: Comparing Russian media reporting of Alexander Litvinenko and Sergei SkripalTina Burrett17 Political journalism by other means: An African perspectiveHerman Wasserman18 What kind of Italy? The cultural battle waged by a European populist leader against BrusselsPaul Rowinski19 Populist candidates in the age of social media: Media portrayals of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential bid in BrazilHeloisa Sturm WilkersonPART IV Public engagement in political journalism: Audience reception, interaction and participation20 ‘How can you stand there and say you didn’t overspend and end up bankrupting this country?’ Power, propaganda and public understanding of the economyMike Berry21 The resiliency of partisan selective exposureJacob L. Nelson22 Digital media and the proliferation of public opinion cues online: Biases and vulnerabilities in the new attention economyAndrew R.N. Ross, Andrew Chadwick, and Cristian Vaccari23 Gate-watching and news curationAxel Bruns24 Walking the line: Political journalism and social media publicsMarcel Broersma24 ‘Viral journalism’, is it a thing? Adapting quality reporting to shifting social media algorithms and wavering audiencesAnastasia Denisova26 Reporting on white supremacy: challenges of amplification, legitimization and mainstreaming for political journalismTina Askanius and Sophie Bjork-JamesPART VPolitical agenda-setting, media effects and voting behaviour27 Protecting the citizen: Political journalists as gatekeepers in the digital ageDarren G. Lilleker and Shelley Thompson28 Media effects on perceptions of societal problems: Belief formation in fragmented media environmentsAdam Shehata29 Agenda-setting theory in a networked worldJason A. Martin30 Influencing the public agenda in the social media era: Questioning the role of mainstream political journalism from the digital landscapeAndreu Casero-Ripolles31 The delegitimizing potential of Internet memes in political communication: A Case study of the 2020 US electionAndrew S. Ross32 Telling tales: Gender and political journalism Emily Harmer33 The Role of audiences in television leaders’ debates and political journalismRichard DanburyPART VI Political controversies: single issue politics, grassroots advocacy and campaigning in the news34 Journalistic work in cultures of protest: A transnational reviewDaniel H. Mutibwa35 Who’s punching who? Examining advocacy reporting and commercial restraints in TV satire programmingAllaina Kilby36 Pluralist public sphere or elitist closed circle? Elite-driven agendas and contributor ‘chemistry’ as determinants of pundit choice on a flagship BBC politicsJames Morrison37 The importance of space in photojournalists’ accounts of the anti-austerity protests in GreeceAnastasia Veneti, Paul Reilly, and Darren G. Lilleker38 Scotland and period poverty: A case study of activists’ media and political agenda-settingFiona McKay 39 Continental drift: Historical perspectives on the framing of ‘Europe’ in the British pressSimon Gwyn Roberts 40 8M and the Huelga General Feminista, 2019-2020: feminist engagement with state, capital and Spain’s ‘clase política’Stuart Price