Overview
- Combines academic understanding of politics and media with professional insights on how academics contribute (or can contribute) to political media content
- Features insight from media industry professionals tasked with creating media coverage of politics, and how academics can best fit into industry expectations
- Offers academic readers unprecedented insight on how news media think in terms of covering politics, and provides training and advice for academics entering political media work
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Media Politics
- Political Communication
- Academia
- US Political Media
- Political Analyst
- American Political Media
- Media Managers
- Journalism
- Mass Media
- Media Producers
- Public Policy
- American Journalism
- Punditry
- Pundits
- Political News
- Partisanship
- Academic Professionalism
- Journalistic Sources
- Political Science
- Social Sciences
About this book
This book considers the production of political media content from the perspective of academics who are increasingly asked to join the ranks of voices charged with informing the public. The work draws on the authors’ first-hand experience and relationships with media reporters, managers, producers, and academics offering their expertise to a wide array of media outlets to understand and report on the dynamics shaping how the academic voice in political news may be at its most useful. Featured prominently in the book is the trade-off between a conventional form of political punditry, which is often characterized by partisan rancour, and a more analytical, theoretical, and/or policy-based approach to explaining politics to both general and diverse audiences. Along the way, the work draws on original survey, in-depth interview, and experimental data to garner insights on what academics in media, reporters, and media managers perceive are the appropriate roles for academics featured inpolitical media. This book also contains relevant technical tips for effective media communication by academics.
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Brian R. Calfano is Professor of Political Science and Journalism at the University of Cincinnati, USA. In addition to authoring dozens of peer-reviewed publications, he is an award-winning political reporter and analyst for television stations in the US and Canada.
Valerie Martinez-Ebers is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas, USA. In addition to her various appearances across media and dozens of peer-reviewed publications, she is the former editor of The American Political Science Review.
Aida Ramusovic is a Doctoral student in Political Science at the University of Cincinnati, USA. She is a former reporter, anchor, and senior editor at TV Vijesti (a national broadcast network in her native Montenegro).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The American Professor Pundit
Book Subtitle: Academics in the World of US Political Media
Authors: Brian R. Calfano, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Aida Ramusovic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70877-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70876-4Published: 14 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70879-5Published: 15 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70877-1Published: 13 July 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 266
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 104 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Science, Media Policy, Political Communication, Journalism