Martin Conboy is a Reader in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. He co-edits the book series Journalism Studies: Key Texts for SAGE.

Introduction
Journalism
History and Discourse
The Consequences of Printed News
Journalism as Miscellany
Newsbooks and Mercuries
Periodicals and the Formation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere
Profit, Politics and the Public
Radical Journalism
Its Rise and Incorporation
The Discourse of the Fourth Estate
Women¿s Journalism from Magazines to Mainstream
Popular and Consumer Periodicals
From New Journalism to the Web
Broadcast Technologies and Journalism

Traditional news values no longer hold, infotainment has the day. Journalism is in a terminal state of decline. Or so some contemporary commentators would argue. Although there has been a great diversity in format and ownership over time, Conboy demonstrates the surprising continuity of concerns in the history of journalism.