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Examines the role of Muslims in the news media, particularly within a climate of threat, fear and misunderstanding. Exploring the circumstances and politics surrounding the representation of Muslims across a range of journalistic genres, this book provides insights into the representation - and misrepresentation - of Islam and Muslims.

About the Author

Elizabeth Poole is Lecturer in Media Studies at Staffordshire University and the author of Reporting Islam: Media Representations of British Muslims (I.B.Tauris) John E. Richardson is a Lecturer in Communications and Media at Loughborough University and the author of (Mis)Representing Islam: the racism and rhetoric of British Broadsheet newspapers.

Reviews

'Timely and comprehensive, this book covers all aspects of representation of Muslims in contemporary Western media. Impressively, it also attempts to answer fundamental questions about a multicultural Europe...Essential reading for every current affairs and news editor.' Daphna Baram, author of Disenchantment: The Guardian and Israel ' Muslims and the News Media provides a much-needed, authoritative and wide-ranging set of interventions both documenting and challenging the democratic deficits, as well as analyzing new democratizing possibilities, that characterize today's news media. This is a most timely and important work indeed.' Professor Simon Cottle, Director, Media and Communications Program, University of Melbourne 'The contributions offer valuable windows onto aspects of media coverage.' - Fifth Estate Online