*CFP* CALL FOR CHAPTER BOOK, NEW ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO TV NEWS

Calling all researchers of TV news making! Chapters are invited for the new Routledge Companion to TV News – an edited volume aiming to collate recent research of the making of TV news.

Deadline for submitting your chapter is Thursday the 10th of January. Submissions should be no more than 200-250 words. Submit your chapter idea to Line Hassall Thomsen at: LHT@cc.au.dk.

The book is under contract with Routledge, to be published end of 2019 in the Routledge Companions series.

The book is edited by Line Hassall Thomsen (Aarhus University, Denmark).

At a time where TV news is struggling and changing like never before, this book will take readers through an impressive range of essays on the current state and practices of TV news making today.

 

The Routledge Companion to TV News Making aims to be a seminal reference source for the rapidly changing field of TV news. This book aims to bring a multi-facetted perspective to current debates on TV news and news making today. It is the hope that this companion will bring a new perspective to the field of TV news studies, mixing the everyday reality of TV news work with analysis from a varied range of academic disciplines. This approach will be shaped by new analysis from international writers of multiple disciplines welcoming theories from both politics, media studies, communications, sociology and anthropology.

Book themes:

We are very much looking forward to your submission. Possible themes could suit, but are not limited to these following themes:

PART I: THE HISTORY OF TV NEWS

This section will cover both the history of broadcasting, the history of public service broadcasting. Discussions will include how broadcasters once enjoyed a monopoly on news, much different to today when news is available on a plethora of broadcasters, media and platforms.

PART II: DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO STUDYING THE MAKING OF TV NEWS

This section will introduce a range of different approaches to studying TV news making.

PART III: CENTRAL ISSUES

This section gives an insight into some of the most central issues in the study of TV news making today. Concepts of democracy and the public sphere will be central categories of analysis.

PART IV: EMERGING TRENDS

Among others, this section will introduce some of the main discussions on multiskilling journalism and the use of social media for broadcast news today. The section will also devote space to focus on how journalists perceive current changes and how this influences workflows.

PART V: TV NEWS-MAKING AROUND THE WORLD

This section will provide a global perspective to current debate of TV news making. As may be shown, TV news still plays a crucial part in nation building, democracy and local governance around the world.

PART VI: DISCUSSIONS ON THE FUTURE OF TV NEWS

So, will TV news survive? Is this a time of apocalypse or opportunity for Broadcast news? No doubt the role of TV news is rapidly changing. Where will TV news making be in ten years? And what exactly will the Internet and the increased demand for using social media mean to TV news? This section will attempt at answering some of these, and many more questions facing TV journalism makers and TV news researchers today.