Breaking the News - The British Library Exhibition Book

Breaking the News asks timely questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a grisly seventeenth-century murder, COVID-19 public information campaigns, the NSA leak by Edward Snowden and the news media's treatment of celebrities.

About the author

Luke McKernan is Lead Curator of News and Moving Images Collections at the British Library. Jackie Harrison is Professor of Public Communication and Head of the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. Jackie holds the UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity since 2018.

Summary

Breaking the News asks timely questions about how reporting in Britain has written the narrative for pivotal moments in history. Among them are a grisly seventeenth-century murder, COVID-19 public information campaigns, the NSA leak by Edward Snowden and the news media's treatment of celebrities.

Product details

• Authors: Jackie Harrison, JACKIE ED HARRISON
• Assisted by: Jackie Harrison (Editor), Harrison Jackie (Editor), Luke Mckernan (Editor), McKernan Luke (Editor)
• Publisher: British Library
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9780712354417
• ISBN: 978-0-7123-5441-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: BRITISH LIBRARY EXHIBITION CAT
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Press & journalism, United Kingdom, Great Britain, News media and journalism, Media studies: Journalism