This is the first book in English to examine the tangled web of relationships linking newspaper owners, editors and reporters, with leading politicians and power-holders.

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Political news-gathering in Thai language newspapers; Chapter 3 The role of political reporters; Chapter 4 Inside a political daily; Chapter 5 Investigative reporting?; Chapter 6 The power of the political columnist; Chapter 7 Conclusion;

Duncan McCargo is a senior lecturer in politics at the University of Leeds. His other books include: Chamlong Srimuang and the New Thai Politics (Hurst, 1997), Media and Politics in Pacific Asia (Routledge, 2001) and Reforming Thai Politics (edited, NIAS, 2001).