Martin Conboy
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Martin Conboy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Martin |
| FAMILY NAME | Conboy |
| SIGNATURE | CONBOY M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1543-5958 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 43 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 75 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1917 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Journalism and Ethical Praxis
The importance of high-quality, ethically sound journalism in sustaining a healthy democratic and deliberative public sphere is well established. However, recent trends suggest a lack of public trust in journalism (Fink 2019. “The Biggest Challenge Facing Journalism: A Lack of Trust.” Journalism; OECD 2024. Survey on Drivers of Trust in Public Institutions—2024 Results) coupled with a range of online challenges to ethically sourced news warrant a…
Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice
United Kingdom. By Adrian Bingham
Television journalism
Journalism, Technology and Cultural Practice
Empire News
"Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India, by Priti Joshi." Library & Information History, 38(1), pp. 75–76
Barriers Down
‘Dear readers: Please stop calling us “the media”. There is no such thing’. When it comes to specifying the particularities of the individual institutions and producers of the news media, the multi
The Cato Street Conspiracy
Journalism History
This chapter attempts to break new ground in developing an overview of the historiography of journalism. It considers some of the foundational texts of journalism history from various methodological and national contexts, and highlights the challenges and limitations of digitization as a spur to contemporary approaches. Journalism had existed in practice if not in name for several centuries before there were consistent attempts to chart its histo…
Cato Street Conspiracy
Journalism has no future
How the war made the mirror
We should remember that one war had already made the Daily Mirror given that it reached its zenith as an illustrated daily newspaper as it emerged from the First World War. However, this did not translate into continuing success as by the 1930s it was in steep decline. Re-launched in the mid-1930s, to appeal specifically to what may be described as the non-political left, the Daily Mirror was able to reinforce its editorial identity as a populist…
A Companion to the Australian Media
I am at a distinct advantage in reading this book. I am an outsider to the world of Australian media and this is precisely the status of most people who will read and indeed enjoy this impressive v
What Is Journalism? The Art and Politics of a Rupture
Journalism and the Democratic Market Society
This paper argues for the continuing relevance of Michael Schudson’s historical approach to journalism. It probes links with Schudson’s insistence on the centrality of the cultural contexts of journalism’s reception, which allow us to appreciate the ways in which his work has prompted historicizations of journalism to move from mere chronology into areas rich for interdisciplinary investigation, such as the economic underpinnings of news, the rel…
Routledge Companion to British Media History
Core Blighty? How Journalists Define Themselves Through Metaphor
Journalism has long relied on certain core metaphors in order to express its claims to social and political usefulness. The deployment of metaphors to describe a practice that in contrast asserts its truth-telling and plain prose style is in itself interesting. Since metaphor acts as a powerful indicator of presuppositions it can be used to reify complex public discourses, reducing them to common-sense thinking. This paper explores what metaphors…
Locating critiques of normativity
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin ConboyMartin Conboy is Professor of Journalism History at the University of Sheffield, UK
It is Nobbut (Only) an Oligarchy that Calls Itself a ‘We’”
The period between 1880 and 1900 was rich with discussions of the role of both journalists and journalism in Britain. Not only did the period witness the intensification and systematization of technologies associated with the gathering and dissemination of news but it was also a time when journalists were beginning to identify themselves collectively and professionally. The technological developments and corresponding professional reassessment pr…
Judith Rowbotham, Kim Stevenson, and Samantha Pegg. Crime News in Modern Britain
A historian, a lawyer, and a legal historian combine their energies and insights to provide this impressive longitudinal account of what has long been one of the staples of modern news content. It might be subtitled “the rise and fall of crime reporting” as it outlines the growth in importance of crime reporting as an adjunct of open democratic process in Britain and its long postwar decline. The book is well structured editorially with clear int…
The Routledge Companion to British Media History
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable me…
Livingstone and the legacy of Empire in the journalistic imagination
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin ConboyMartin Conboy, Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Scott Eldridge are affiliated with the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Lugo-OcandoMartin Conboy, Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Scott Eldridge are affiliated with the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Emails: [email protected]; j.lugo-ocando@sheffi…
Exploring the language of the popular in American and British newspapers 1833–1988
As of 24 April 2015, this article is available as Open Access under a CC-BY license
Piracy
Thematising multilingualism in the media
The book is a special issue in the publisher's ‘Current Topics Series’, the aim of which is to attract new audiences for interesting contemporary material, beyond the readership of specialist journ
Journalism Studies
Journalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboy’s extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its future directions are addressed, through chapters covering: the history and development of Journalism Studies how journalists are created through training and education changing research methods …
Celebrity journalism – An oxymoron? Forms and functions of a genre
Debate about the ideal content or purpose of journalism is as old as print itself. The messy characteristics of popular culture have always intruded into the high principles and purposes of the communication of politics and journalism’s intentions to provide information of importance for the public. In the intensity of the contemporary media era it is necessary to reconsider the interplay between celebrity news and journalism: beyond oxymoron and…
The Paradoxes of Journalism History
The Future of Newspapers
To what extent can we disassociate the technology and economics of newspapers from their political and cultural functions? Many of the latter functions have survived previous eras of technological change, often with a heightened promise of a more democratic engagement with readers and a subsequent amelioration of civic communication. Toolan (1998 Toolan , M.J. 1998 Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction , London : Routledge . [Google Schol…
Journalism history—a debate
In this exchange, Mark Hampton and Martin Conboy debate the best approaches to researching and writing journalism history. In the first essay, Hampton, taking as his starting point Conboy's 2010 agenda-setting article, “The Paradoxes of Journalism History”, argues that journalism history should be more deeply integrated within broader cultural, political, and economic historiographies, and that media history is key to this task. In the second ess…
Morbid Symptoms
This paper argues that despite an appearance of rupture, journalism is in an era of good fortune. While it would be both premature and historically naïve to point at a new “golden era”, there is reason to see a strengthening of journalism's sense of core responsibilities emerging from the challenges and opportunities which new technologies present. With an eye towards journalism's history as a force with the potential to feed contemporary debate,…
Permeation and Profusion
Journalism is living through interesting times. Formats are changing, audiences fragmenting, the exchanges between quality and tabloid are accelerating. There is a burgeoning set of debates both wi
Journalism has no future
A Tale of Two Battles
Journalism and the Democratic Market Society
This paper argues for the continuing relevance of Michael Schudson’s historical approach to journalism. It probes links with Schudson’s insistence on the centrality of the cultural contexts of journalism’s reception, which allow us to appreciate the ways in which his work has prompted historicizations of journalism to move from mere chronology into areas rich for interdisciplinary investigation, such as the economic underpinnings of news, the rel…
A parachute of popularity for a commodity in freefall
How the war made the mirror
We should remember that one war had already made the Daily Mirror given that it reached its zenith as an illustrated daily newspaper as it emerged from the First World War. However, this did not translate into continuing success as by the 1930s it was in steep decline. Re-launched in the mid-1930s, to appeal specifically to what may be described as the non-political left, the Daily Mirror was able to reinforce its editorial identity as a populist…
From “We” to “Me
In 1886, in “The Future of Journalism”, W. T. Stead expressed the view that it was the “personal touch” in newspapers that would transcend the vapidity of a hypothesized “we”. Nevertheless, it was to be the ability of newspapers, exploiting his own pioneering take on the New Journalism, to articulate a plausible version of a collective voice which was to dominate the journalism of the mass market of the twentieth century. A refinement of the lang…
The Working of the New Jersey Short Practice Act
The Working of the New Jersey Short Practice Act
The Discourse of Location
This article examines the recent rise in popularity of German film, in particular comedy, with German cinema audiences. This trend contrasts sharply with negative reviews from cinema critics while being in line with the agenda of popular directors and certain conservative politicians. The article examines what may be deduced about the place of such a cinema in the rearticulation of a specifically German national-popular culture and how this may i…
The Press and Popular Culture
Introduction: Popular Press Theory and History Popularizing the People The Popular Press as Popular Culture The American Popular Press in the Nineteenth Century The English Popular Press in the Early Nineteenth Century Commercializing the Popular in Britain The New Journalism The Long Version The Popular Press Surviving Postmodernity Integrating Approaches to Contemporary Popular Culture
Journalism
Introduction Journalism History and Discourse The Consequences of Printed News Journalism as Miscellany Newsbooks and Mercuries Periodicals and the Formation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere Profit, Politics and the Public Radical Journalism Its Rise and Incorporation The Discourse of the Fourth Estate Women's Journalism from Magazines to Mainstream Popular and Consumer Periodicals From New Journalism to the Web Broadcast Technologies and Journalis…
Tabloid Britain
1. When Did The Populars Become Tabloid? 2. The Rhetorical Patterns of Tabloid Language 3. The Semantics and Narratives of Nation 4. Tabloid history 5. Outsiders and the National Community Readers 6. Gender and Sexuality in Tabloid Britain 7. Popular Politics in a National Context 8. Celebrity and National Community 9. 'Tabloidization'-Global Formats, National Contents Bibliography
A Tale of Two Battles
Permeation and Profusion
Journalism is living through interesting times. Formats are changing, audiences fragmenting, the exchanges between quality and tabloid are accelerating. There is a burgeoning set of debates both wi
The Future of Newspapers
To what extent can we disassociate the technology and economics of newspapers from their political and cultural functions? Many of the latter functions have survived previous eras of technological change, often with a heightened promise of a more democratic engagement with readers and a subsequent amelioration of civic communication. Toolan (1998 Toolan , M.J. 1998 Narrative: A Critical Linguistic Introduction , London : Routledge . [Google Schol…
The Daily Mirror and the Creation of a Commercial Popular Language
It has long been acknowledged that the Mirror's transformation from middle-class to working-class newspaper after 1934 was effected to a large extent through its astute identification of a language which could communicate its journalism to a new market. This language has been explored with particular intensity during the period of the Second World War and the post-war period when the paper rose to both political as well as commercial prominence. …
A parachute of popularity for a commodity in freefall
From “We” to “Me
In 1886, in “The Future of Journalism”, W. T. Stead expressed the view that it was the “personal touch” in newspapers that would transcend the vapidity of a hypothesized “we”. Nevertheless, it was to be the ability of newspapers, exploiting his own pioneering take on the New Journalism, to articulate a plausible version of a collective voice which was to dominate the journalism of the mass market of the twentieth century. A refinement of the lang…
The Paradoxes of Journalism History
Hearts exposed
by Ayesha Nathoo, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 272 pp., US $85.00 (cloth), 9781403987303 This is an extremely well-researched addition to a series – Science, Technology and Medicine in Moder
Geoff Hurst's Ball
Journalism Studies
Journalism Studies: The Basics provides an introductory overview of the emerging field of Journalism Studies, discussing key issues and contemporary debates. Drawing on Conboy’s extensive experience in the field, the changing nature of journalism and its future directions are addressed, through chapters covering: the history and development of Journalism Studies how journalists are created through training and education changing research methods …
Journalism history—a debate
In this exchange, Mark Hampton and Martin Conboy debate the best approaches to researching and writing journalism history. In the first essay, Hampton, taking as his starting point Conboy's 2010 agenda-setting article, “The Paradoxes of Journalism History”, argues that journalism history should be more deeply integrated within broader cultural, political, and economic historiographies, and that media history is key to this task. In the second ess…
Celebrity journalism – An oxymoron? Forms and functions of a genre
Debate about the ideal content or purpose of journalism is as old as print itself. The messy characteristics of popular culture have always intruded into the high principles and purposes of the communication of politics and journalism’s intentions to provide information of importance for the public. In the intensity of the contemporary media era it is necessary to reconsider the interplay between celebrity news and journalism: beyond oxymoron and…
The Routledge Companion to British Media History
The Routledge Companion to British Media History provides a comprehensive exploration of how different media have evolved within social, regional and national contexts. The 50 chapters in this volume, written by an outstanding team of internationally respected scholars, bring together current debates and issues within media history in this era of rapid change, and also provide students and researchers with an essential collection of comparable me…
Livingstone and the legacy of Empire in the journalistic imagination
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin ConboyMartin Conboy, Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Scott Eldridge are affiliated with the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Emails: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected] Lugo-OcandoMartin Conboy, Jairo Lugo-Ocando and Scott Eldridge are affiliated with the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.Emails: [email protected]; j.lugo-ocando@sheffi…
Exploring the language of the popular in American and British newspapers 1833–1988
As of 24 April 2015, this article is available as Open Access under a CC-BY license
Piracy
Thematising multilingualism in the media
The book is a special issue in the publisher's ‘Current Topics Series’, the aim of which is to attract new audiences for interesting contemporary material, beyond the readership of specialist journ
Morbid Symptoms
This paper argues that despite an appearance of rupture, journalism is in an era of good fortune. While it would be both premature and historically naïve to point at a new “golden era”, there is reason to see a strengthening of journalism's sense of core responsibilities emerging from the challenges and opportunities which new technologies present. With an eye towards journalism's history as a force with the potential to feed contemporary debate,…
Locating critiques of normativity
Additional informationNotes on contributorsMartin ConboyMartin Conboy is Professor of Journalism History at the University of Sheffield, UK
It is Nobbut (Only) an Oligarchy that Calls Itself a ‘We’”
The period between 1880 and 1900 was rich with discussions of the role of both journalists and journalism in Britain. Not only did the period witness the intensification and systematization of technologies associated with the gathering and dissemination of news but it was also a time when journalists were beginning to identify themselves collectively and professionally. The technological developments and corresponding professional reassessment pr…
Sociology (32 works) · Media studies (29 works) · Political science (29 works) · Media Studies and Communication (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Journalism (17 works) · History (16 works) · Politics (13 works) · History (12 works) · Law (12 works)