Pulling Newspapers Apart

<p><em>Pulling Newspapers Apart: Analysing Print Journalism</em> explores contemporary UK national and local newspapers at a significant and pivotal moment in their development when some pundits are busily if mistakenly announcing their demise.</p><p>The book offers a detailed examination of features which previous studies have tended to neglect such as editorial formats (News Op Ed pages readers’ letters cartoons obituaries advice columns features and opinion columns) aspects of newspaper design (page layout photographs supplements online editions headlines the emergence of the compact and Berliner editions) newspaper contents (sport sex and Page 3 royalty crime moral panics and politics) as well as the content of newspapers which is not generated by in house journalists (advertising TV listings horoscopes agency copy and public relations materials). </p><p>This innovative and accessibly written collection provides journalism and media students with an invaluable study of newspapers in the digital age. </p>