Karen Sanders

• University Foundation San Pablo CEU

Cities have become the chief place of residence and work of the majority of the world's citizens and engines of regions’ prosperity. Understanding how city reputation – a key intangible good- is constructed is an important challenge for academics and a range of other stakeholders. Politicians and officials seek to position and manage their cities i...

By 2050, 34.5 % of Spaniards will be over the age of 65, making Spain's population the third oldest in the world. Ageing populations present numerous challenges and opportunities and these are particularly apparent in the area of healthcare and health communication. Longer life expectancy pushes greater demand for information regarding health and h...

In the contemporary context of a crisis of trust in public institutions, governments face the challenge of knowing how to communicate effectively with their citizens. This question also presents a challenge for scholars, as previous work has revealed diverse understandings of what professionalism means in government communication. Moreover, views v...

Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent themes on both a domestic and international basis. This volume aims to fill that gap, providing a con...

Government communication is a curiously neglected area of discursive analysis. No considered examination of the subject exists which provides either an account of the contemporary governmental landscape or an explanation of the common and divergent themes on both a domestic and international basis. This volume aims to fill that gap, providing a con...

A longitudinal study of U.K. journalism undergraduates records how their attitudes on societal roles of the news media changed during university education. Students became more likely to endorse an adversarial approach toward public officials and businesses as extremely important. Yet students did not support these roles as strongly as an older gen...

Government communication: An emerging field in political communication research In February 2009, the US Congress passed a US$787 billion stimulus package designed to put the country on the road to economic recovery. Thereafter, managing ‘the stimulus story’ became, as Time magazine reported, ‘a full-time White House preoccupation’ (Scherer, 2009:...

Various studies have attempted to conceptualize and assess professionalization of political communication from different perspectives. This article examines the professionalization of central government communication in Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom, applying a framework developed using indicators derived from the sociology of work and fro...

“Government communication” in this entry refers to the aims, role, and practice of communication implemented by executive politicians and officials of public institutions in the service of a political rationale, and that are themselves constituted on the basis of the people's indirect or direct consent, and are charged to enact the people's will. T...

The increase in university journalism programmes has been an international trend, invigorating debate about what kind of journalists universities help create. In the UK's journalism education there are now, after its rapid growth, more undergraduates than postgraduates, competing for a shrinking number of journalism jobs. Some editors prefer to rec...

This article examines the state of the art in relation to government communication. After identifying the specific characteristics of government as an institution that communicates, the authors provide a thorough review of the literature from political communication and organizational communication (including public relations, organizational and co...

This study discusses data from the most extensive survey of journalism students conducted in Britain, and similar data from Spanish journalism students, collected as they commence their studies in journalism. It shows that significant differences exist between these countries in students¿ motivations to be journalists, including `public service¿ mo...

Journalism educators in democracies aim to produce journalists motivated to scrutinize the powerful. This study of British journalism students in graduate programs considers whether their views on the news media's societal roles changed during that education. Students grew more adversarial as regards public officials, but became less likely—in an e...

The number of undergraduate journalism students in Britain has risen fivefold since 1994/95 as journalism education undergoes the rapid expansion previously seen in other countries. This study analyses this expansion in Britain, demonstrating that it has led to a growing proportion of journalism graduates in newsrooms, despite residual, industry co...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to detail research into experiential learning and journalistic practice in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. Design/methodology/approach This paper explores a range of themes and issues stemming from the application of an experiential learning approach to postgraduate journali...

Comparative research is uniquely able to address theoretical questions about the relationship between journalism and political and cultural contexts. This study takes the reporting of political scandal as the entry-point to an analysis of the practice of investigative reporting in Britain and Spain in the 1990s and its status as a litmus test for a...

This study investigates the impact of pre-war news coverage on international support for President Bush's decision to invade Iraq in 2003. The study is based on a survey conducted one week prior to the start of the Iraq War among 1787 university students from six countries in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. The findings indicate that exposure to...

The study reports the results of the most extensive survey of its kind conducted in British journalism education, examining attitudes towards journalism ethics and news media roles held by 653 first-year undergraduates as they began British university journalism courses in 2002 and 2003. Findings are compared with similar data for British journalis...

This paper explores the impact of new technology on journalists' attitudes and practice in distinctive national and organisational contexts, deriving evidence from observational and interview research conducted in six digital newsrooms selected to provide comparative settings in Britain (BSkyB, Independent Television News [ITN] and the British Broa...

This article argues that ‘going public’—engagement in the mediation of public image-is a basic requirement of contemporary politics in post-industrial democracies. This is no less true of Spain. Spanish politicians have been helped in managing both their public and private visibility by the peculiar characteristics of the Spanish media industry. Th...

Both the Thatcher and the Blair governments have been accused of politicising the Prime Ministerial press operation. This article asks whether it is possible to maintain a constitutionally clearer demarcation between the expressly political and the strictly governmental, and at the same time still pursue a successful communications strategy. Based...

This study of Sky News, run by Britain's main satellite station, suggests that its decision to provide intensive coverage of the 1997 general election was determined less by hopes of commercial payoff than a desire for self-respect and the admiration of politicians and fellow broadcasters. This symbolic agenda boosted the self-image of Sky staff as...

This article investigates the different ways in which two European heads of government, John Major in Britain and Felipe Gonzalez in Spain, achieved ostensibly the same result, namely to distance themselves personally from the media feeding-frenzy over `sleaze' that engulfed their parties and eventually overwhelmed their administrations. It conclud...

Este estudio sobre la Redacción de Sky News sugiere que su decisión de realizar un seguimiento muy intenso y no americanizado de las elecciones generales de 1997, no vino tanto determinada por la esperanza de obtener beneficios comerciales inmediatos, como por el deseo de lograr autoestima, junto con la atención de políticos y colegas. Sky confiaba...

This Q study of journalists at two newspapers finds four different perspectives on civic journalism, but some aspects of civic journalism are widely spread.

El presente artículo describe el estado del arte en la comunicación de gobiernos. Tras identificar las singularidades que tiene el gobierno como institución que se comunica, las autoras realizan una profunda revisión de lo que al respecto ofrecen los campos de estudio de la comunicación política y de la comunicación de organizaciones (relaciones pú...