Introduction: Academic at Work / Howard Tumber
1. Media policy: premature obsequies? / Denis Mcquail
2. Press reformism 1918-98: a study of failure / James Curran
3. US communications industry ownership and the 1996 Telecommunications Act: watershed or unintended consequences? / Christopher H. Sterling
4. Power and policy in the British music industry / Simon Frith
5. British press and privacy / Hugh Stephenson
Pt. II. Media power and democracy
6. nation and communicative space / Philip Schlesinger
7. Digitised capitalism: what has changed? / Herbert I. Schiller
8. late arrival of television research: a case study in the production of knowledge / David E. Morrison
Pt. III. Media management
9. Prime ministers' and presidents' news operations: what effects on the job? / Colin Seymour-Ure
10. Political advertising at the end of the twentieth century / Winston Fletcher
11. Cultural policing in the early eighteenth century: print, politics and the case of William Rayner / Michael Harris
12. Conflicts in the news: publicity interests, public images and political impacts / Rodney Tiffen
Pt. IV. Media professionals
13. Conflicts of interest: newsworkers, media, and patronage journalism / Hanno Hardt
14. Washington reporters redux, 1978-98 / Stephen Hess
15. Newspaper power: a practitioner's account / David Walker
16. print journalist, UK and Africa / Rex Winsbury
17. interview in management research: a cautionary tale for journalists / Stuart Macdonald and Bo Hellgren
Pt. V. International media and global identity
18. historian and the news agency: present thoughts on past performance / Michael Palmer
19. How Americans view the world: media images and public knowledge / Kurt Lang and Gladys Engel Lang
20. Pan-Arab satellite television: the dialectics of identity / Oliver Boyd-Barrett.
