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"This book examines the way foreign aid has shaped journalism in the Global South and argues that it played a central role in defining the core values of news reporting in these countries, which in turn had their own ways of communicating news. These attempts were met with resistance, which at the end created the South's own journalism grammars"--

"Contents" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "1: Introduction" -- " Where to Begin" -- " From Then to Now" -- " Beyond Statistics" -- " Big Thanks" -- "References" -- "2: Crime in the News" -- " Crime News" -- " Mediatisation of Crime" -- " Moral Panic and Crime News" -- " Media Securitization" -- " Agenda Setting" -- " General Framework" -- "References" -- "3: How Crime Statistics Became News" -- " From Then to Now" -- " Zero Tolerance for Numbers" -- " Tough on Causes?" -- " Post Tough Period" -- "References" -- "4: Media Representations of Crime Statistics" -- " Statistics as Source and Fact" -- " Media Portrayal" -- "References" -- "5: Stabbing News: What Knife Crime Tells Us About Crime Statistics in the News Room" -- " Methodology and Approaches" -- " Theory and Background" -- " General Findings" -- " Conclusions" -- "References" -- "6: News, Public Policy and Crime Statistics" -- " The Policy Numbers" -- " Conclusion" -- "References" -- "7: Spinning Crime Statistics" -- " Crisis Time" -- " Professional Communication" -- " Not Only About Communication" -- " A Force for Good?" -- "References" -- "8: Visualising Crime Statistics" -- " Graphic Understanding" -- " Key Graphics" -- " Other Forms of Representation" -- " Conclusion" -- "References" -- "9: Crime Statistics and the Public" -- " The Importance of Numbers" -- " Understanding Numbers" -- "References" -- "10: Conclusion" -- " "Datafication" of Life" -- " Daily Crime" -- "References" -- "References

In this edition we seek to advance a debate that helps us redefine journalism. Not as a new fixed concept but rather as an open-ended discussion that allows for the nuance that the fracture of a traditional way of reporting news hands to us as observers. For this journal, however, our role will not be as impassive and neutral analysists but rather as active participants fostering future discussion and debates. The combination of papers that we present in this issue is a reflection on these challenges and each one of them provides, in its own way, an engaging and provoking response. It is precisely because the authors bring about research and discussion that touch upon these issues that this edition seems so relevant for journalism today.

AbstractThis work attempts to offer a reflexive account of the key ideas and scholarly contributions developed over the years that provide elements for a theoretical explanatory framework regarding news media and poverty. In so doing, the article presents a general assessment of some of the key works in this area, while assessing the main notions, concepts, and contributions in this regard. The author points out at the fact that there is broad agreement among most scholars in relation to these issues while suggesting, nevertheless, that there are still some important pieces of the puzzle missing in our understanding about how the media engages with poverty and inequality.

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The Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies (AJMS) is devoted to research with an applied angle in which a clear link is made between the prevalent theories and paradigms that media and communication scholars work with, and the real world where media and communication activities take place. Media and journalism scholars rarely cooperate with the actors with a say in media production. The actors broadly 'resent' or discard scholarly work that theorizes and interprets their practice. In an attempt to bridge this gap, AJMS has been and will be open to submissions by both practitioners and academics. It has published many articles by practitioners, which broadly have been critical of academic writings about journalism as theory and practice. Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando of the University of Leeds, who himself was a reporter and editor before joining academia, comes to academia's defence. While not absolving academics of the blame for lack of cooperation, he believes journalists also bear the brunt of the failure in rendering scholarly material useful and relevant to their profession.

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Although today media and communication studies across Latin America are closely linked to critical sociology, this was not always the case. In this article, we explore how the interaction between social communication (which includes communication and media studies) and critical sociology, in the Latin American context, evolved over time. In so doing, we examine how, and in which directions, media theory has developed and how it relates profoundly with critical sociology. This piece is an attempt to summarize this process and look at current contributions that propose more inclusive and participatory media. The key argument that it took a long time for Latin America's media studies to link itself with critical sociology but once that happened, it produced a distinctive school of thought that is counter-hegemonic and directs itself towards the contestation of power and oppression by linking itself with the popular.

In this editorial we reflect on the first ten years of our journal's mission to bring together voices from the Global North and Global South as a platform for scholars and practitioners to discuss and debate the key issues affecting journalism. We acknowledge the great vision and work of our founding editor, professor Leon Barkho, who is stepping down in his role as principal editor. He has developed and implemented the ideas that have shaped our journal and who championed cultural diversity and gender balance as reflected in our editorial board, from the outset. Stepping up to the role of main editor, Jairo Lugo-Ocando talks about the powerful legacy of the journal in making important and critical contributions to academic debates and practitioners' work and then explains how we will meet the challenges that lie ahead. We outline our continued commitment to a robust peer-review process, a refresh of our editorial board with younger faces to renew and connect the journal to new trends and areas from the emerging scholarship. We highlight a series of Special Issues that will add to our unique collection and focus on specific themes and our intention to relaunch a prize for best article submitted, in conjunction with a major partner. We introduce the six articles for our latest publication bringing together a selection of themes and authors that opens a series of discussions in new areas.