Balance and Bias in Journalism

GUY STARKEY is Senior Lecturer in Radio and Programme Leader in Media Production in the School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland, UK. He has taught and written widely in the field. His publications include Radio in Context (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), GNVQ Intermediate Media (1998), 'Radio Audience Research - Challenging the Gold Standard' in Cultural Trends, 45, and 'Estimating Audiences: Sampling in Television and Radio Audience Research', Cultural Trends, 49.

• IntroductionA Question of Balance: Reality and RepresentationBalance in Broadcasting: Representation and RegulationPower and Responsibility: The Press, the People and Self-regulationIn the Eye of the Beholder: Audience Perspectives of Balance and BiasBroadcast Talk and the Printed Word: A Balancing ActMeditated Imperialism: International Journalism in the Global News MarketplaceCase Studies Balance and Bias in Practice.

'...valuable, authoritatitve and well-evidenced contributions to the growing body of scholarship in this area and should become essential reading for serious students of journalism and for those who practise it.' - Sally Feldman - Times Higher Education Supplement