Roger Patching has spent more than half a century as a journalist and a journalism educator. He worked for nearly 20 years in daily journalism for a newspaper, radio station, and TV station in Adelaide, South Australia, before moving to Sydney to work for the international media wire service Australian Associated Press, followed by a decade with the national broadcaster ABC in Brisbane. Then followed more than 30 years at various Australian universities, teaching broadcast journalism, sports reporting, and ethics. He is a life member of the national journalism educators' association JERAA. Roger has co-authored nine journalism texts. This is his fourth collaboration with Dr Hirst.

Martin Hirst is a founding director of the Centre for Journalism, Media and Democracy at AUT University in Auckland, NZ, and co-editor of the journal Political Economy of Communication, published by the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Martin is the author of News 2.0 (Allen & Unwin 2011) and Navigating Social Journalism (Routledge 2018). He has collaborated with other writers on From Broadcast to Narrowcast: Communication and New Media (Oxford 2007), Scooped: The Politics and Power of Journalism in Aotearoa New Zealand (AUT Press 2012), and So You Want to Be a Journalist (Cambridge 2012). Martin spent 20 years in journalism and a similar number of years in academia. He now writes and paints from his studio in Melbourne.

Preface: Not the book we started with

Introduction: Ethics, Trust and the Crisis of Journalism

Chapter 1: News in Crisis: Responding to the Pandemic

Chapter 2: News in Crisis: Responding to Black Lives Matter

Chapter 3: News in Crisis: The Fake news crisis

Chapter 4: News in crisis: Digital Disruption

Chapter 5: News in Crisis: The economic collapse of the news industry

Chapter 6: The crisis of legitimacy

Chapter 7: Journalism and social media: An ethical minefield?

Chapter 8: Is it time to abandon privacy?

Chapter 9: Dubious methods

Chapter 10: The importance of whistleblowers and source protection

Chapter 11: Journalism under threat

Chapter 12: Journalism, ethics and philosophy

Chapter 13: A crisis in epistemology and ideology

Chapter 14: (Re)introducing the dialectic: Hegel and Merrill

Chapter 15: 'Standing Merrill on his feet': Journalism and materialism

Chapter 16: Dialectic in action: Revisiting key issues in ethics

Chapter 17: Rebuilding trust in journalism: An ethical imperative

Bibliography

Index