Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism

Statistics and the Quest for Quality JournalismThis book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.

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Ron Welburn argues

Although we are now accustomed to watching history unfold live on the air

particularly the way in which the Romantic period was frequently constructed in Victorian-era texts as a time of nervous or excitable authors (and readers) at odds with Victorian values of self-restraint

The author demonstrates that new media forms are not only indebted to

Europe’s foremost concert halls and opera houses are presented here in a comprehensive

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Swedish Cops is just as thrilling as the novels and films it analyses

and explores the tensions between political radicality

are viewed in a wider pan- European context

and meta-cinematic narratives

together with an explanation of its underlying rationale and main challenges