Political Journalism: New Challenges, New Practices Book

	List of illustrations
	Notes on contributors
	Series editor's preface
	Acknowledgements
1	Political journalism: mapping the terrain	1
2	Four generations of political journalism	22
Pt. I	The cross-management of the interdependencies between journalists and politicians	45
3	The first Blair government and political journalism	47
4	A crisis in the mirror: old and new elements in Italian political communication	69
5	Political journalists and their sources in Thailand	92
6	Can political journalism exist at the EU level?	108
Pt. II	Towards a cynical coverage of politics?	129
7	Media escalation and political anti-climax in Australia's 'Cash for Comment' scandal	131
8	Explaining the wave of scandal: the exposure of corruption in Italy, France and Spain	149
9	The ambivalent watchdog: the changing culture of political journalism and its effects	168
Pt. III	Changes in political journalism: an opportunity or threat for democracy?	187
10	Journalism and democracy in contemporary Britain	189
11	Repositioning the newsroom: the American experience with 'public journalism'	203
Pt. IV	Conclusion	225
12	Trends in news media and political journalism	227
	Index	242