"Eine kompakte und verständliche Einführung in die Journalistik. Anwendungsorientiert und mit vielen Beispielen wird ein systematischer Überblick über Theorien, Methoden und die vielfältigen Erkenntnisse des Faches vermittelt. Der Autor thematisiert auch aktuelle Debatten der Journalistik - üb ... er Qualität, Ethik und die Zukunft des Journalismus. Für das Studium der Journalistik im Haupt- und Nebenfach sowie für das Selbststudium mit dem Berufsziel Journalismus." (Verlagsbeschreibung) more

"The various practices of constructive journalism have the common objective to achieve certain effects on the audience: on the micro-level, the users’ information and emotion, on the meso-level the loyalty towards a media company, and on the macro-level the progress of society. Taking a holistic d ... efinition of constructive journalism as a basis, the two experiments discussed in this article examined the audience responses to German-language news and features presented to readers and radio listeners in both constructive and non-constructive versions. The results are multifaceted. On the micro-level, constructive forms can counteract a negative view of the world because the audience recognises a solution-orientation and underlying spirit of hope. The increased willingness to share constructive stories indicates, on the macro-level, that constructive reporting can raise the perception of possible solutions and role models and hence encourage engagement and emulation. But the hopeful prospects should not be used to simply garnish a difficult problem at any price and maintaining a distance from positive examples is advisable—otherwise, the constructive story runs the risk of being perceived as a commercial or political influence." (Abstract) more