Table of Contents

Part 1: Professional Roles and Journalistic Performance 1. Journalistic Role Performance and the News 2. Theorizing Journalistic Roles 3. Assessing Journalistic Role Performance Cross-Nationally Part 2: The Manifestation of Journalistic Role Performance in the News 4. Mapping Professional Roles in News Content Across 18 Countries 5. Journalistic Voice: The Performance of the Interventionist Role 6. Power Relations: The Performance of the Watchdog and Loyal-Facilitator Roles 7. Audience Approach: The Performance of the Civic, Infotainment, and Service Roles Part 3: Explaining Journalistic Role Performance 8. Measuring the Link Between Professional Role Conceptions, Perceived Role Enactment, and Journalistic Role Performance Across Countries 9. Journalistic Role Performance: A News-Story-Level Approach 10. Journalistic Role Performance: An Organizational-Level Approach 11. Journalistic Role Performance: A Societal-Level Approach 12. Beyond Journalistic Norms: Empirical Lessons on Role Performance in the News

About the Author

Claudia Mellado is Professor of Journalism in the School of Journalism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile. Her research focuses on the study of journalism cultures, journalistic role performance, and comparative studies. She is the principal investigator of the JRP Project (www.journalisticperformance.org). Her work has been extensively published in journals such as Journal of Communication, International Journal of Press/Politics, Journalism, JMCQ, Journalism Studies, and Communication Theory, Her last edited book is Journalistic Role Performance: Concept, Contexts, and Methods (Routledge, 2017)