This core introductory text offers a comprehensive overview of how news has been theorised and understood in key media studies traditions. It explores how news is constructed, distributed and received and includes up-to-date examples and discussion of contemporary issues such as the uses of new technologies in news media.
GRAHAM MEIKLE is Lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling
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