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Journalism and Emotion
Stephen Jukes
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© Stephen Jukes 2020
First published 2020
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Contents
3 Introduction: How Emotion Lies at the Heart of Today’s News and Journalism Practice
5 2 Journalism and the Rise of Emotion in a Post-truth Society
6 3 Journalism Practice and Affect
10 7 Journalists and User-generated Content
11 Conclusion: The Taboo Has Been Broken, What Next?
12 References
13 Index
Acknowledgements
They say there is a novel buried deep in every journalist waiting to get out. This volume is certainly no novel, but it is a book that I have been carrying around in my head for at least the past two decades. Its roots lie in more than 20 years of work as a journalist and foreign correspondent around the world for the news agency Reuters. But it is only in the past few years, from the detached vantage point of the academic world, that I have been able to draw my ideas and reflections together into what is hopefully a coherent shape. I still passionately believe in journalism as a force for good, but it is clear, with hindsight, that the events of September 11, 2001, triggered in me a critical distance from the profession. That can only be healthy in today’s tumultuous media landscape, in which many of the certainties of the past have been thrown into question. The Introduction to this book describes how September 11 was a pivotal moment that drove me to stand back and explore the complex relationship between journalism, norms of objectivity and emotion. I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my friends and colleagues at Reuters with whom I covered so many summits, crises and, more often than not, the routine day-to-day stories that we call the news. I owe a particular debt to two – my first editor in the Middle East, the late François Duriaud, the ultimate professional and a legendary figure at Reuters; and his colleague as news editor and later successor as Middle East Editor, Graham Stewart. I learnt the trade from both and look back on those days with great affection. I also owe a debt of gratitude to two outstanding academics at Goldsmiths, University of London: Professors Natalie Fenton and Lisa Blackman.
