Journalism and the Future of Democracy

Denis Muller is Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Advancing Journalism at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He is the author of Journalism Ethics for the Digital Age (2014), and Media Ethics and Disasters (2011). He is a former Assistant Editor, investigations, of The Sydney Morning Herald and Associate Editor of The Age, Melbourne.

• Part 1: Democratic conditions.- Chapter one, Crisis and Opportunity.- Chapter two, Democracy Under Strain.- Chapter three, Enemies of Democracy: Populism and Scapegoating.- Chapter four, Essentials of Democracy: Liberalism and Pluralism.-Part 2: Journalism’s Ethical Fundamentals .- Chapter five,  Tolerance: History and Practice.- Chapter six, Journalistic Truth: Empirical and Contingent - Chapter seven, Free speech: Rights and Limitations.- Chapter eight, Impartiality: Attainable and Assessable.-Part 3: Press Development and Theory.-Chapter nine, Development of Professional Mass Media.- Chapter Ten,Development of Social Media.- Chapter eleven, Theories of the Press.- Chapter Twelve, A New Press Theory: Democratic Revival.-Part 4:Journalism and the Future of Democracy.- Chapter Thirteen, Conclusion