The Civil Power of the News

• Main Author: Harrison, Jackie (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Journalism.; Mass media-Political aspects.; Media Policy.

This landmark book is concerned with the civil power of the news. This power can be seen in the ways the news engages with public sentiment through a focus on three invariant civil concerns: identity, legitimacy and risk. The book analyses how news stories engage with these concerns to make civil an...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1 Introduction to Part 1
• Chapter 2 The Civil Ideal of News
• Chapter 3 The Civil Ideal of News and Political and Commercial Reality
• Chapter 4 Newsrooms and the News Cycle
• Chapter 5 Introduction to Part 2: A Practical Demonstration of the Civil Power of the News Through an Analysis of the First British Railway Murder 1864
• Chapter 6 The Reporting of the Murder and the Invariant Civil Concern of Identity
• Chapter 7 The Reporting of the Murder and the Invariant Civil Concern of Legitimacy
• Chapter 8 The Reporting of the Murder and the Invariant Civil Concern of Risk
• Chapter 9 The Reporting of the Murder as Type 3 Civil Boundary Maintenance: the rejection of change and the endorsement of the status quo in civil society
• Chapter 10 Résumé.