Katy Parry: 2 books

Original: The first book to look empirically at a city and traces its patterns of news circulation.  Holistic approach: includes interviews with a range of local mediators, focus groups, a survey of a representative sample of the population and a content analysis of one week’s news output from various media.  Looks at mainstream and local/alternative media.

The most detailed, sophisticated and theoretically grounded analysis of wartime media coverage written to date. Describes and explains how British news media variously supported, and dissented from, coalition propaganda campaigns during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.