Evolving Euroscepticisms in the British and Italian Press

Paul Rowinski is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, UK, and has worked for the regional, national and transnational press for two decades, including as a UK central European correspondent.

“There is something refreshingly overt in the crusading, polemical passion of this book. … Rowinski in particular sets out to deconstruct the illusion of any ‘impartial […] fact-centred’ press cover-age of Europe. … In doing so, he crucially challenges a liberal model of press influence and responsibility as a disinterested watchdog mediating between power and the populace.” (Alec Charles, Journalism Education - The Journal of the Association for Journalism Education, Vol. 6 (3), 2017–2018)

• 1. The loneliness of an Ango-European. A pathology.- 2. Overarching Academic Themes.- 3. Conceptualising Europe.- 4. The Post-War European Project – a topography divorced from nationhood.- 5. The European Union and its communication deficit.- 6. Communicating Europe? Berlusconi, Murdoch and the Interplay of national Politics and the Press.- 7. Into the Vacuum: Populism, UKIP and the Five Star Movement.- 8. The Architecture for Analysing Interviews and Text.- 9. Italian Interviews. Travelling through the Labyrinth.- 10. British Interviews. Representing and Challenging the National Interest.- 11. The Persuasive Language of the Berlusconi and Murdoch Press.- 12. Newspapers and their discursive construction of Europe.