All Outputs (6)
Fact-checking false claims and propaganda in the age of post-truth politics: the Brexit referendum (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter examines the claims that the current age is one of post-truth politics, where politicians not only lie, but do not suffer at the ballot box from being caught out in a lie by the news media. Donald Trump is the paradigmatic case, as a le... Read More about Fact-checking false claims and propaganda in the age of post-truth politics: the Brexit referendum.
Introduction: The new terrain of mediated politics (2021)
Book Chapter
Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism (2021)
Book Chapter
This chapter will first query the various constructions of ‘bad’ audience responses to information and argumentation, and suggest an approach that neither expects too much of news audiences (and inevitably finds them wanting) nor patronizes them (and... Read More about Evolving journalism norms: objective, interpretive and fact-checking journalism.
The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism (2021)
Book
Keep Calm and Carry On: Challenging a Discourse of Necessity and Forbearance in News Reporting of UK “Austerity” Policies (2021)
Book Chapter
Severe cuts to public spending in the United Kingdom were ushered in from 2010 by a Conservative-led coalition government that used the 2008 financial crisis to advance a political agenda to roll back much of the social democratic welfare state. The... Read More about Keep Calm and Carry On: Challenging a Discourse of Necessity and Forbearance in News Reporting of UK “Austerity” Policies.