Howard Tumber is Professor in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London, UK. He is a founder and co-editor of Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism. He has published widely in the field of the sociology of media and journalism.

Silvio Waisbord is Professor in the School of Media and Public Affairs at George Washington University, USA. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Communication, and he has published widely about news, politics and social change.

Introduction 1 Media and Scandal Part I KEY CONCEPTS IN Media and SCANDAL STUDIES 2 Scandal and Social Theory 3 Media Coverage of Political Scandals: Effects of Personalization and Potential for Democratic Reforms 4 Moral Panics 5 Scandals and Agenda Setting 6 Mediatization and Political Scandal 7 Scandal and News Values 8 Selecting scandal: How Legacy and Social Media Gatekeep the News 9 Scandals and Social Accountability 10 Media Framing of Political Scandals: Theoretical Framework and Empirical Evidence 11 Fake News and Scandal PART II POLITICAL CONTEXT and MEDIA DYNAMICS of SCANDALS 12 New Nordic Noir: Political Scandals as Drama and Media Hunts 13 Political Scandal and Kompromat: Manufactured Outrage from Russia 14 Right-wing Populism, Media and Political Scandal 15 Corruption Scandals and the Media System 16 Social Media and Scandal 17 The Shifting Boundaries of Elite and Tabloid Media in Political Sex Scandals 18 Talk Scandals: The Power of Mediated Talk 19 Legal Contexts in Reporting Scandal in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia 20 Unreported Scandals: The Power of Personality and Legal Bluster Part III Scandals and Journalistic practices 21 Scandals and Freedom of Information 22 Transnational Investigative Journalism and Scandal 23 Media Stings and the Normalization of Scandal in India 24 To Bark or to Bite? Journalism and Entrapment 25 From Snowden to Cambridge Analytica: An Overview of Whistleblowing Cases as Scandals 26 Data Journalism and the Promise of Transparency 27 Caught Between Transparency and Scandals-making: Conceptualising WikiLeaks 28 Scandal Mining and Socially Mediated Visibility Part IV THEMES AND SETTINGS OF MEDIA SCANDALS 29 Surveillance Scandals and the Systemic Crisis of the Public 30 Scandal and Celebrity 31 Reframing the Gender Gap in American Political Sex Scandals in the #MeToo Era 32 Scandals and Sport 33 The Scandalous Power of the Press: Phone Hacking in the UK 34 #AidToo? The 2018 Humanitarian Scandals in Oxfam GB and Save the Children 35 Scandals and the Armed Forces 36 Sex Trafficking and Scandal 37 Race Scandals as Racial Projects 38 Scandals in Science 39 Scandals, Media, and Religion 40 Corporate Scandalization Process: Unpacking the Corporate Scandal 41 Corporate Scandals as Denial of Reputation Part V Consequences and Legacies of Media Scandals 42 Shame and Scandal: Making the Personal Political 43 Scandal, Media Effects and Political Candidates 44 Scandals, Media Effects, and Public Opinion 45 The Political Consequences of Corruption Scandals: Main Findings and Challenges 46 Media Priming Effects and Ethical Ambivalence in Corruption 47 Protecting Public Perception: Responding to Scandal using Benoit's Image Repair Theory 48 The Routinization of Media Scandals 49 Scandal and the Law 50 Why Scandals (Might) Be Good For Democracy