Scooped

The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand

Edited by Martin Hirst, Sean Phelan and Verica Rupar

Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand critically examines some of the most pressing economic, political, social and cultural issues facing journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Approaching journalism as a field of cultural production, the book brings together contributions from a diverse list of academics and journalists, and interrogates the commonsense assumptions that typically structure public discussion of journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand. Rather than simply treating power as something others have, and politics as something that the media simply covers, the book situates journalism itself as a site of power and cultural politics. Lamenting the often antagonistic relationship between journalism and academia, the book offers a vision of a critically engaged journalism studies that should be of interest to academics, students, journalists and general readers.

About the editors:

Martin Hirst is Associate Professor in Journalism at the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University, Melbourne. In 2011 he published News 2.0: Can journalism survive the internet? Hirst was Journalism Curriculum Leader at AUT University, Auckland, from 2007-2011. He is author or co-author of five books, more than 15 journal articles, and Co-director of the Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy.

Sean Phelan is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Communication, Journalism and Marketing, Massey University, Wellington, and moved to Aotearoa New Zealand from Ireland in 2003. He has a particular research interest in the relationship between critical political theory and media and journalism studies. He is the editor (along with Lincoln Dahlberg) of Discourse Theory and Critical Media Politics (2011).

Verica Rupar is a lecturer at Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies. She has worked previously as a journalist in serbia, Slovenia and Hungary, and taught journalism at the University of Belgarde (Serbia), Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand) and the University of Tasmania (Australia). She is currently working on projects focusing on journalism practice in a comparative context.