Interpreting News [Paperback]

This core introductory text offers a comprehensive overview of how news has been theorised and understood in key media studies traditions. It explores how news is constructed, distributed and received and includes up-to-date examples and discussion of contemporary issues such as the uses of new technologies in news media.GRAHAM MEIKLE is Lecturer in the Department of Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling

Introduction: News and Symbolic Power
Defining News
Know Your Product
True Stories
From Coffee-House to Cyber-Caf?
Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain
Here We Are, Now Entertain Us
0 Totally Wired
News 2.0?
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