The suggestion that the activities of public relations professionals and news agencies help
to shape news content in national and local news media is increasingly commonplace …

Our analysis of 2207 domestic news reports in a structured sample of UK “quality”(the
Guardian, The Times, the Independent and the Telegraph) and mid-market (Daily Mail) …

One of the most notable features of the recent and continuing global banking crisis has been
the failure of financial journalism, together with the global news agencies, to alert us to the …

While it is generally acknowledged that news agencies play a pivotal role in the current
news landscape, empirical insights into the extent of news media's reliance on agency copy …

All these developments suggest the need for a more complex account of the myriad
influences on journalistic decisions. More research needs to examine behind-the-scenes …

This chapter argues that the crisis confronting UK journalism, which is undermining both the
fi nancial viability and editorial integrity of UK local and national newspapers, has a longer …

1.1 Newspaper readership 1983–2006 7 2.1 Sales of national dailies 21 2.2 Sales of
national Sundays 21 2.3 Newspaper readership by sex 37 2.4 Newspaper readership by …

Public relations (PR) practitioners' and journalists' professional views and attitudes toward
each other have been a subject of academic inquiry during the past decades; however …

Interrelating financial, organisational and technological factors have spurred considerable
changes in the professional practices of journalism. They include declining sales and …

While news media are frequently criticized for their alleged increasing reliance on
'subsidized content'provided by sources and news agencies, this claim is seldom empirically …