Richard Jones

Reporting the Courts

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news. Interrogating the history and current practice of court coverage in the UK, the author argues for its importance as a central feature of both open justice and public interest reporting.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9781032638386
• ISBN-10: 1032638389
• Artikelnr.: 71544896

Autorenporträt

Richard Jones is Director of Journalism, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Before working in academia, he was a journalist for Sky News and the BBC, among others. Reporting the Courts is his first book

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction - The case for reporting the courts
2. Local public interest journalism under threat
3. The history and development of contempt law
4. Evolving restrictions on court reporting
5. Cameras in court
6. The courts beat
7. The news values of court reporting
8. Court reporting in practice
9. Reporting on a major trial
10. Conclusion - The case for (still) reporting the courts