Stephen Cushion is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University. He is sole author of The Democratic Value of News: Why Public Service Media Matter (2012) and Television Journalism (2012), and co-editor of (with Justin Lewis) The Rise of 24-Hour News Television: Global Perspectives (2010) and (with Richard Sambrook) The Future of 24-Hour News: New Directions, New Challenges (2016).

News and Politics offers a timely analysis of television news bulletins, asking whether the wider pace and immediacy of 24-hour news culture has influenced the format and style over time.

Drawing on the concepts of mediatization and journalistic interventionism, Stephen Cushion empirically traces the shift from edited to live reporting from a cross-national perspective.

Considering the future of 24-hour news, it asks whether new content and social media platforms - including Twitter and Buzzfeed - enhance or weaken democratic culture.

Introduction - From Mediation to Mediatization 1. Interpreting news conventions as journalistic interventions: exploring the changing nature of television journalism and political reporting 2. Embracing or resisting a rolling news logic? Understanding the changing character of television news bulletins 3. The media logic of immediacy: The mediatization of politics on UK news bulletins 4. Comparing news cultures and media systems: developing a comparative study of television news bulletins in the UK, US and Norway 5. The rise of live news and the two-way convention: evaluating the value of journalistic interventionism 6. Interpreting the impact and consequences of the mediatization of news and politics 7. Interpreting 24/7 journalism on new content and social media platforms: The online challenges and future directions of news and politics