Journalism and Emotion

Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism in the Faculty of Media & Communication at Bournemouth University. He worked in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas as a foreign correspondent and Global Head of News for Reuters before moving into the academic world in 2005.  His academic research focuses on areas of objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on affect, trauma and conflict journalism. He works with the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change, chairs the Dart Centre for Journalism & Trauma in Europe and is a trustee of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting.

• Introduction: How Emotion Lies at the Heart of Today′s New and Journalism PracticeChapter 1: Objectivity and EmotionChapter 2: Journalism and the Rise of Emotion in a Post-truth SocietyChapter 3: Journalism Practice and AffectChapter 4: Interviewing and EmotionChapter 5: The Herd InstinctChapter 6: Journalism and TraumaChapter 7: Journalists and User-generated ContentConclusion: The Taboo has been Broken, What Next?

Challenging journalism’s long-standing commitment to objectivity, this book breaks new ground in developing the idea of journalism as a community of affective practice. Drawing on a series of empirical case studies, the book looks behind the scenes of journalistic work to uncover the emotional labour carried out by journalists, often at great personal cost, across contexts ranging from user-generated content to terrorist attacks, conflicts and crises and the "post-truth society." In doing so, it offers indispensable insights for anyone who cares about journalism.