Monika Bednarek is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

1. Introduction
2. News Discourse in Context
3. News Values
4. Language in the News
5. Images in the News
6. Evaluation in the News
7. Balancing Act: Image Composition
8. The Big Picture: A Case Study of Stand-Alones in Print News
9. Killing Osama - A Case Study of Online News
Appendices
Bibliography
Index