Pulling Newspapers Apart

Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily, if mistakenly, announcing their demise. The book offers a detailed examination of features which previous studies have tended to neglect, such as editorial formats (News, Op Ed pages, readers' letters, cartoons, obituaries, advice columns, features and opinion columns), aspects of newspaper design (page layout, photographs, supplements, online editions, headlines, the emergence of the compact and Berliner editions), newspaper contents (sport, sex and Page 3, royalty, crime, moral panics and politics) as well as the content of newspapers which is not generated by in house journalists (advertising, TV listings, horoscopes, agency copy and public relations materials). Edited by Bob Franklin, Professor of Journalism Studies at the Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, individual chapters are written in an authoritative but accessible style by distinguished academics and journalists including Nicholas Brett, Nicholas Campion, Peter Cole, Ros Coward, Chas Critcher, Aeron Davis, John Ellis, Jim Hall, Jackie Harrison, Tim Holmes, Nicholas Jones, Paul Manning, Eamonn McCabe, Brian McNair, Peter Meech, Sarah Niblock, Angela Phillips, Eamonn Rafferty, John Richardson, Karen Ross, Colin Seymour Ure, Nigel Starck, John Sugden, Mark Tattersall, Alan Tomlinson, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Claire Wardle. This innovative and accessibly written collection provides journalism and media students with an invaluable study of newspapers in the digital age. Bob Franklin is Professor of Journalism Studies at Cardiff University. He is the Editor of Journalism Studies and Journalism Practice . Previous publications include Local Journalism and Local Media (2006), Television Policy: The MacTaggart Lectures (2005), Packaging Politics (2004) and Newszak and News Media among many others. MEDIA STUDIES / JOURNALISMFranklin, Bob is the author of 'Pulling Newspapers Apart', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415425568 and ISBN 0415425565.