Political Journalism: New Challenges, New Practices (Routledge Ecpr Studies in European Politicalscience)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 12
Notes on contributors......Page 13
Series editor\'s preface......Page 16
Acknowledgements......Page 19
Political journalism: mapping the terrain......Page 20
Four generations of political journalism......Page 41
The cross-management of the interdependencies between journalists and politicians......Page 64
The first Blair government and political journalism......Page 66
A crisis in the mirror: old and new elements in Italian political communication......Page 88
Political journalists and their sources in Thailand......Page 111
Can political journalism exist at the EU level?......Page 127
Towards a cynical coverage of politics?......Page 148
Media escalation and political anti-climax in Australia\'s \'Cash for Comment\' scandal......Page 150
Explaining the wave of scandal: the exposure of corruption in Italy, France and Spain......Page 168
The ambivalent watchdog: the changing culture of political journalism and its effects......Page 187
Changes in political journalism: an opportunity or threat for democracy?......Page 206
Journalism and democracy in contemporary Britain......Page 208
Repositioning the newsroom: the American experience with \'public journalism\'......Page 222
Conclusion......Page 244
Trends in news media and political journalism......Page 246
Index......Page 261