Introduction -- A history of news about death -- How news media place values on lives -- Visual displays of death -- The impact of covering traumatic assignments -- Audience responses to death in the news -- Journalism's role in constructing grief -- Representing death in the online age -- Conclusion
Summary
Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the relationship between the news, media and death. Driven by a perceived ubiquity of death and dying on television, in newspapers and on the internet, many scholars have attempted to more closely examine aspects of this coverage. The result is€that there now exists a large body of scholarly work on death in the news, yet what has been lacking is a comprehensive synthesis of the field. This book seeks to close this gap by analyzing the scholarship on death in the news by way of a thematic approach. It provides a historical overview, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online. This fascinating account provides a much needed overview of what we currently know about death in the news and provides food for thought for future studies in the field
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-192) and index
