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This new study maps and synthesizes existing research on the ways in which journalism deals with death. Folker Hanusch provides a historical overview of death in the news, looks at the conditions of production, content and reception, and also analyzes emerging trends in the representation of death online.

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Acknowledgments Introduction A History of News About Death How News Media Place Values on Lives Visual Displays of Death The Impact of Covering Traumatic Assignments Audience Responses to Death in the News Journalism´s Role in Constructing Grief Representing Death in the Online Age Conclusion Bibliography

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´In this remarkably lucid and accomplished study Folker Hanusch explores the social construction of death in the news. A must-read for all those interested in how mediated death and dying enters into public life and private thoughts.´ - Simon Cottle, Professor of Media and Communications, Cardiff University, UK

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FOLKER HANUSCH is Lecturer in Journalism in the School of Communication at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. He has also worked as a journalist for Australian and German-language newspapers, and has published articles in Journalism Studies and Media International Australia.

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