To succeed in foreign policy, US presidents have to sell their versions or framings of political
events to the news media and to the public. But since the end of the Cold War, journalists …

The role of the media has become a central part of politics and policy in the twenty-first
century. That dominance has led many to suggest a trend of'dumbing down': the privileging …

This is the first book to examine in detail the roles that the news media can play in an
ongoing peace process. Gadi Wolfsfeld explains how the press's role in such processes …

" Twenty years ago, when The Politics of Force was first published, the issue of police
brutality was rarely covered in the news. This book was inspired by events following the Los …

Policy debates, or political discourses, are verbal interactions between political actors about
a given policy, for example climate or immigration policy. Political actors make public claims …

The Mediation of Power investigates how those in positions of power use and are influenced
by media in their everyday activities. Each chapter examines this theme through an …

The study is meant to provide a more actor-oriented approach to the construction of political
news by looking at the competition over news exposure during political waves in Israel …

The role of reporters and sources in the initiation of the news is neither unilateral as claimed
by models of “hegemony” and “adversarial journalism”, nor reciprocal as suggested by the …

Policy debates between political actors can facilitate, strain, or change the direction of future
policy-making. However, existing measurement approaches do not tap the full potential of …

This piece investigates the role of news media and journalists in setting political agendas. It
presents evidence to challenge the agenda-setting paradigm most often adopted in such …