The Routledge Companion to Conflict and Crisis Reporting

The Routledge Companion to Conflict and Crisis Reporting provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of research on conflict and crisis reporting.

The volume covers the determinants, production routines, practices, and relevant issues of conflict and crisis reporting in an era marked by technological disruption, geopolitical instability, and different forms of uncertainty. Featuring contributions from 63 leading scholars affiliated with institutions across all world regions, this foundational volume brings together key debates, conceptual foundations, theoretical and methodological approaches, and major strands of empirical research in the field. By examining the drivers, conditions, and consequences of conflict and crisis reporting across diverse political, social, economic, cultural, and media contexts, this volume highlights convergences and divergences in realities and perspectives. Organized into seven sections, The Companion addresses theoretical and methodological traditions; actors and organizations; influences and sources; routine practices and challenges; content and effects; global commonalities and differences; and future directions in the field. It deliberately moves beyond Western-centric perspectives by examining violent conflicts, hybrid warfare, crisis environments, and forms of reporting that remain underrepresented in much Western media and scholarship. In doing so, the volume makes a genuinely global, comparative, and diverse contribution to the study of conflict and crisis reporting.

This collection is an essential resource for researchers, educators, students, and media professionals working on conflict, war, and crisis reporting. It will also be valuable for scholars in related communication disciplines seeking to understand journalism’s role in producing public knowledge about conflict and crisis in a rapidly changing media environment.