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Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice? (2023)
Journal Article
Keppel-Palmer, M., Smith, T., Reardon, S., & Gross, B. (2023). Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice?. Entertainment Law Review, 34(1), 1-3

Pursuant to the Crown Court (Recording and Broadcasting) Order 2020, television cameras have now been permitted to broadcast sentencing remarks made by Judges in Crown Courts. The first such occasion of this was in the case of R v Ben Oliver (2022).... Read More about Broadcasting crown court sentencing - A tentative step forward for open justice?.

It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales (2019)
Journal Article
Chamberlain, P., Keppel-Palmer, M., Reardon, S., & Smith, T. (2021). It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales. Journalism, 22(9), 2404-2420. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919868049

There is a widespread perception that there has been a collapse in court reporting in England and Wales as local legacy media struggles to survive in times of falling revenues and shifting audiences. However, there is little empirical evidence with w... Read More about It is criminal: The state of magistrates’ court reporting in England and Wales.

Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations (2019)
Journal Article
Jackson, D., Thorsen, E., & Reardon, S. (2020). Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations. Journalism Practice, 14(1), 104-124. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2019.1591929

Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain,... Read More about Fantasy, pragmatism and journalistic socialisation: UK journalism students’ aspirations and motivations.

Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists (2017)
Journal Article
Reardon, S. (2018). Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists. Discourse and Communication, 12(1), 80-98. https://doi.org/10.1177/1750481317735711

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Journalists are frequently used as a source of information for those studying news production and practice and as a means of describing the ‘real’ world of news. However, these conversations between researcher and journa... Read More about Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists.

Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice (2016)
Journal Article
Reardon, S. (2016). Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice. Journalism Practice, 10(7), 939-949. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2016.1168710

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Using the tools of discourse analysis, this research identifies the competing and sometimes contradictory public discourses around the requirements for the next generation of journalists... Read More about Mixed Messages: An investigation into the discursive construction of journalism as a practice.