Reporting the Road to Brexit

Anthony Ridge-Newman is Lecturer in Digital Media at Liverpool Hope University, UK.Fernando León-Solis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at University of the West of Scotland, UK.Hugh O’Donnell is Professor in the Glasgow School for Business and Society at Glasgow Caledonian University, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Anthony Ridge-Newman,Fernando León-Solis, Hugh O’Donnell.- 2. Polarised Politics and Personalisation: Coverage of the EU referendum on British TV News, Andrew Tolson.- 3. Mobilizing Migration: analyzing the role of the ‘migrant’ in the British press during the EU referendum debate [UK and Commonwealth], Oisín Share.- 4. Scotland, Wales and press discourses amid the 2016 EU Referendum, Michael Higgins.- 5. The EU Referendum on Scottish television, Marina Dekavalla.- 6. Whither the ‘hand of history’: Northern Ireland newspaper coverage of the EU referendum campaign, Stephen Baker.- 7. ‘A pit we have dug ourselves’: Brexit and the Welsh democratic deficit, Simon Gwyn Roberts.- 8. The EU referendum in Gibraltar: an analysis of opinion articles from Gibraltarian newspapers, Ángela Alameda Hernández.- 9. Left versus right, or mainstream versus margins? Divisions in French media reactions to the Brexitvote, Thomas Martin and Laurent Binet.- 10. The EU Referendum Stories in Austrian, German, and Swiss Media: Catastrophes, Characterisations, Challenges, Klaus Peter Müller.- 11. The Media Coverage of the EU Referendum in Spain, Fernando León-Solís, Enric Castelló, Hugh O’Donnell.- 12. 'Little England beats Great Britain': Italian Media Coverage of Brexit, Rinella Cere.- 13. The Media Coverage of the EU Referendum in Portugal, Isabel Simões-Ferreira.- 14. The ‘Brexit’ referendum in the Greek press: Preliminary findings from a pilot study, Giorgos Katsambekis.- 15. It’s the economy, stupid: Coverage of the British EU referendum in Norway, Birgitte Kjos Fonn.- 16. Whose news? How the Canadian media covered Britain’s EU Referendum, Christopher Waddell.- 17. The Media Coverage of the EU Referendum in Israel, Tal Samuel-Azran and Yair Galily.- 18. Brexit in the Russian Media,Helena Bassil-Morozow.- 19. Conclusion, Anthony Ridge-Newman,Fernando León-Solis, Hugh O’Donnell.

“This book could prove useful for those interested in the relation between media and politics as well as those interested in political communication such as scholars and professionals in the fields of diplomacy and communication.” (Tyler M. Wilson, CBQ Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Vol. 51 (3-4), 2020)