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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Series Editor’s Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1: Introduction
• 2: Views About News: Common sense, practitioner and academic
• 3: From Ballads to Broadcasting: The historical growth and development of news
• 4: The Modern News Ecology: Technology, regulation, concentration and competition
• 5: News and Society
• 6: News Practice
• 7: News: Character and audience
• 8: Possibilities and Problems: Trends in the future of news
• Appendix 1: Key Events Relating to the Mutton Inquiry and Report
• Appendix 2: A Map of the Multi-Channel TV Landscape
• Appendix 3: Concentration of the ITV Sector
• Appendix 4: Concentration of the National Press
• Appendix 5: Timeline of the Communications Act 2003
• Appendix 6: TV News Programmes
• Notes
• Bibliography