Folker Hanusch

Taking stock of research in an area that has long been starved of scholarly attention, The Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism brings together scholars from across journalism, communication, and media studies to offer the first substantial volume of its kind in this dynamic field. This Handbook is divided into five major sections covering definitions; current trends; the relationship between lifestyle journalism and consumer culture; how lifestyle journalism interacts with matters of identity, emotion, politics, and society; and future directions. Featuring 30 contributions from authors at the cutting-edge of research around the world, each chapter provides an authoritative overview of key literature and debates and proposes a way forward for future scholarship. The Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism is an essential companion for advanced students and researchers of lifestyle journalism and related beats including food, fashion, and travel writing.

The Routledge Handbook of Lifestyle Journalism

Thomas Hanitzsch

Jyotika Ramaprasad

Arnold S. de Beer

How do journalists around the world view their roles and responsibilities in society? Based on a landmark study that has collected data from more than 27,500 journalists in 67 countries, Worlds of Journalism offers a groundbreaking analysis of the different ways journalists perceive their duties, their relationship to society and government, and the nature and meaning of their work. Challenging assumptions of a universal definition or concept of journalism, the book maps a world populated by a rich diversity of journalistic cultures. Organized around a series of key questions on topics such as editorial autonomy, journalistic ethics, trust in social institutions, and changes in the profession, it details how the practice of journalism differs across the world in a range of political, social, and economic contexts. The book covers how journalism as an institution is created and re-created by journalists and how they experience their profession in very different ways, even as they retain a commitment to some basic, widely shared professional norms and practices. It concludes with a global classification of journalistic cultures that reflects the breadth of worldviews and orientations found in disparate countries and regions. Worlds of Journalism offers an ambitious, comparative global understanding of the state of journalism in a time when it is confronting a series of economic and political threats.

Folker Hanusch

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