Letters to the Editor

Allison Cavanagh is Lecturer in the School of Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK. Her work focuses on media in both historical and contemporary contexts and she has a particular interest in comparative research. John Steel is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK. He has produced more than 30 publications with leading international publishers and in major peer-reviewed journals on topics including media history, journalism and political communication.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Regular letters-writers: meanings and perceptions of public debate.- Chapter 3: Speaking as citizens: women’s political correspondence to Scottish newspapers 1918-28.- Chapter 4: Letters to the Editor in the Chicago Defender, 1929-1930: The Voice of a Voiceless People.- Chapter 5: Letters to the Editor in Colombia: a Sanctuary of Public Emotions Marta.- Chapter 6: Letters to the Editor as a tool of citizenship.- Chapter 7: The Struggles and Economic Hardship of Women Working Class Activists, 1918-1923.- Chapter 8: Readers’ letters to Victorian local newspapers as journalistic genre.- Chapter 9: The possibilities and limits of ‘open journalism’: Journalist engagement below the line at the Guardian 2006-2017.