Understanding Broadcast Journalism presents an insightful exploration of broadcast journalism today; its characteristics, motivations, methods and paradigms.

Introduction 1. The importance of being broadcast 2. Understanding radio journalism 3. Television journalism today 4. New platforms, new journalism? 5. Broadcast journalism in context 6. The ethics of broadcast journalism 7. A world of journalisms: CNN and all that Al-Jazeera 8. A broadcast future or fragmentation on-demand?

Stephen Jukes is Professor of Journalism at Bournemouth University. His research focuses on objectivity and emotion in news with an emphasis on affect, trauma and conflict. A former foreign correspondent and Head of News at Reuters, he has edited a series of books on the Middle East and written extensively on journalism and trauma.

Katy McDonald is Lecturer in Journalism at Newcastle University. A former broadcast journalist, her research interests include the effect on journalists of technological, financial and cultural changes in radio newsroom practices. She has published on newsroom 'hubbing' in UK commercial radio, and mediatisation.

Guy Starkey is Professor and Associate Dean, Global Engagement at Bournemouth University. His research interests include radio and journalism practices, institutions and technologies. A radio producer and presenter, his publications include Radio Journalism (Sage, with Andrew Crisell) and Radio in Context (Palgrave Macmillan).