Crime News in Modern Britain
Press Reporting and Responsibility, 1820-2010
Judith Rowbotham author Kim Stevenson author Samantha Pegg author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
Published:1st Jan '13
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Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.Drawing together examples from broadsheet and tabloid newspapers this account of English crime reportage takes readers from the late eighteenth century to the present day. In the post-Leveson world, it is a timely and engaging contextualisation of the history of printed crime news and investigative journalism.
'Those of us interested in how contemporary media construct criminal or deviant behaviour remain aware that this process has a long history. We are grateful for scholarly works which exhume history's implications for current preoccupations. Crime News in Modern Britain is one such work. For a decade the authors have analysed exhaustively local and national newspapers from the past. From that base they have compiled evidence about initial developments and subsequent changes in the authorship, sources and format of crime reporting. It is the first fully historical account of the nature of crime reporting over nearly two centuries.'
- Chas Critcher, Swansea University, UK
ISBN: 9781349338276
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 3406g
266 pages
1st ed. 2013