Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. PROFESSIONAL ROLES AND JOURNALISTIC ROLE PERFORMANCE. 1. Journalistic Role Performance and the News / Claudia Mellado -- 2. Theorizing Journalistic Roles: Opening New Avenues for Journalism Studies / Claudia Mellado -- 3. Assessing Journalistic Role Performance Cross-Nationally: Comparative Design and Methodology / Claudia Mellado, Jacques Mick, and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- PART II. THE MANIFESTATION OF JOURNALISTIC ROLE PERFORMANCE IN THE NEWS. 4. Mapping Professional Roles in News Content across 18 countries: A Descriptive Overview / Claudia Mellado, Adriana Amado, Sergey Davydov, María Luisa Humanes, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Jacques Mick, Cornelia Mothes, Dasniel Olivera, Nikos S. Panagiotou, Svetlana Pasti, Patric Raemy, Sergio Roses, Anna-Maria Schielicke, Henry Silke, Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, and Edson Tandoc. -- 5. Journalistic Voice: The Performance of the Interventionist Role / Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, Adriana Amado, and Henry Silke -- 6. Power Relations: The Performance of the Watchdog and Loyal-Facilitator Roles / Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Sergio Roses, Dasniel Olivera, and Henry Silke -- 7. Audience Approach: The Performance of the Civic, Infotainment and Service Roles / María Luisa Humanes and Sergio Roses -- PART III. EXPLAINING JOURNALISTIC ROLE PERFORMANCE. 8. Measuring the Link between Professional Role Conceptions, Perceived Role Enactment, and Journalistic Role Performance across Countries / Claudia Mellado and Cornelia Mothes -- 9. Journalistic Role Performance: A News-story-Level Approach / Edson Tandoc, Patric Raemy, Setlana Pasti, and Nikos Panagiotou -- 10. Journalistic Role Performance: An Organizational-Level Approach / Cornelia Mothes, Anna-Maria Schielicke, and Patric Raemy -- 11. Journalistic Role Performance: A Societal-Level Approach / Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, Cornelia Mothes, and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- 12. Beyond Journalistic Norms: Empirical Lessons on Role Performance in the News / Claudia Mellado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, María Luisa Humanes, Adriana Amado, Sergey Davydov, Jacques Mick, Cornelia Mothes, Dasniel Olivera, Nikos S. Panagiotou, Svetlana Pasti, Patric Raemy, Sergio Roses, Anna-Maria Schielicke, Henry Silke, Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, and Edson Tandoc. -- Appendices -- Index. |