Scooped: The politics and power of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand

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This book is the first new text on New Zealand journalism in ten years. Scooped is an edited collection of essays canvassing the politics and power of journalism and the news media in New Zealand today.

Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand critically examines some of the most pressing economic, political, social and cultural issues facing journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Approaching journalism as a field of cultural production, the book brings together contributions from a diverse list of academics and journalists, and interrogates the commonsense assumptions that typically structure public discussion of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rather than simply treating power as something others have, and politics as something that the media simply covers, the book situates journalism itself as a site of power and cultural politics. Lamenting the often antagonistic relationship between journalism and academia, the book offers a vision of a critically engaged journalism studies that should be of interest to academics, students, journalists and general readers.

 

About the editors:

Martin Hirst is Associate Professor in Journalism at the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne. In 2011 he published News 2.0: Can journalism survive the internet? Hirst was Journalism Curriculum Leader at AUT University, Auckland, from 2007-2011. He is author or co-author of five books, more than 15 journal articles, and Co-director of the Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy.

Sean Phelan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, Wellington, and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand from Ireland in 2003. He has a particular research interest in the relationship between critical political theory and media and journalism studies. He is the editor (along with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics (2011).

Verica Rupar is a lecturer at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. She has worked previously as a journalist in serbia, Slovenia and Hungary, and taught journalism at the University of Belgarde (Serbia), Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and the University of Tasmania (Australia). She is currently working on projects focusing on journalism practice in a comparative context.

List of chapters

preface	Journalism in the digital era	Steve Maharey
introduction	Journalism and journalism studies in Aotearoa New Zealand	Sean Phelan, Verica Rupar & Martin Hirst
chapter  1	New thoughts on the public sphere in Aotearoa New Zealand	Wayne Hope
chapter  2	The cultural politics of journalism: Quotidian intellectuals and the power of media capital	Martin Hirst
chapter  3	Reporting te Tiriti: Producing and performing the colonial society	Sue Abel, Tim McCreanor and Angela Moewaka Barnes
chapter  4	Media power, journalism and agency	Sean Phelan
chapter  5	Last chance to see? Public broadcasting policy and the public sphere in New Zealand	Peter A. Thompson
chapter  6	Politics, power and political journalists	Margie Comrie
chapter  7	People like us: The cultural geography of New Zealand’s international news	Donald Matheson
chapter  8	Framing a traitor in five key words: New Zealand newspapers, Russell Coutts and the America’s Cup 2003	Slavko Gajevic
chapter  9	A critical look at New Zealand journalism education	Ruth Thomas
chapter  10	Journalism and the electronic public sphere	Selwyn Manning
chapter  11	From festivals to famine – and the silence in between: A reflection on Pacific Islanders, presentation and re-presentation in media	Richard Pamatatau
chapter  12	The politics of practice and the voice of the New Zealand Listener	Finlay Macdonald
chapter 13	Twenty-five ways to have better journalism	Nicky Hager