Representing Death in the News: Journalism, Media and Mortality
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan (2010), viii, 199 pp.
Contains bibliogr. pp. 172-192, index
ISBN 978-0-230-28976-5 (ebook); 978-0-230-23046-0 (print)
"This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online." (Publisher desciption)
1 Introduction, 1
2 A history of news about death, 13
3 How news media place values on lives, 35
4 Visual displays of death, 55
5 The impact of covering traumatic assignments, 79
6 Audience responses to death in the news, 99
7 Journalism's role in constructing grief, 125
8 Representing death in the online age, 145
9 Conclusion, 161
2 A history of news about death, 13
3 How news media place values on lives, 35
4 Visual displays of death, 55
5 The impact of covering traumatic assignments, 79
6 Audience responses to death in the news, 99
7 Journalism's role in constructing grief, 125
8 Representing death in the online age, 145
9 Conclusion, 161
