This handbook charts the growing area of journalism studies, exploring the current state of theory and setting an agenda for future research in an international context. The volume is structured around theoretical and empirical approaches, and covers scholarship on news production and organizations; news content; journalism and society; and, journalism in a global context. Emphasizing comparative and global perspectives, each chapter explores: key elements, thinkers, and texts; historical context; current state of the art methodological issues; merits and advantages of the approach/area of studies; limitations and critical issues of the approach/area of studies; and, directions for future research.Offering broad international coverage from top-tier contributors, this volume ranks among the first publications to serve as a comprehensive resource addressing theory and scholarship in journalism studies. As such, the "Handbook of Journalism Studies" is a must-have resource for scholars and graduate students working in journalism, media studies, and communication around the globe.

卡琳•沃爾-喬根森（Karin Wahl-Jorgensen），卡迪夫大學卡迪夫新聞、媒介和文化研究學院講師。她研究媒介、民主和公民權，成果發錶在超過20份國際期刊和多本著作中。

托馬斯•哈尼奇（Thomas Hanitzsch），蘇黎世大學大眾傳播和媒介研究所助理教授。他創建瞭國際傳播學會新聞研究部，並在新聞、比較傳播研究、網絡媒介和戰爭報道方麵齣版瞭4本書籍和50餘篇文章及書籍章節。