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'More News Less Views' - Article the Guardian didn't take on Economy/Israel/Palestine.

A new edition of Market Killing is being published in Spanish with a new introduction which can be viewed here

YouGov results on attitudes to radio and tv news coverage of Israel and Palestine (June 2008)

New Production Study by Rena Bivens showing the influence of new technology on news rooms.

'Media Group Methods and the Discourse Analysis of Norman Fairclough and Teun
van Dijk: a comparison of approaches', article by Greg Philo

Also available in Chinese (中文译本：《殊途之异：格拉斯哥媒介学派研究方法，诺曼·费尔可拉夫和图恩·范迪伊克的话语分析) 

Also available in Spanish (¿Puede el Analisis del Discurso Explicar Satisfactoriamente el Contenido de los Media y de las Practicas Periodisticas?)

This article outlines the methods developed by the Glasgow University Media Group and
compares them to discourse analysis in the work of two theorists, Norman Fairclough and
Teun van Dijk. The main issue I will raise is that their text-based studies are limited in the conclusions which can be drawn, since their approach does not include the study of key production factors in journalism or the analysis of audience understanding. Finally I will show through a case study how it is possible to study simultaneously the three processes of production, content and reception of news messages.

'Media, Crime and Young People ', paper by Greg Philo, presented at a recent conference at the BFI, London,  07.12.07.

Adrian Quinn has had the second of two articles on the Glasgow Media Group published in the International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics. To view both articles click here.

About Glasgow University Media Group

The Media Unit is a research based grouping of academics within the sociology department of Glasgow University. Much of its work is published under the name Glasgow Media Group, (aka Glasgow University Media Group). The Group consists mostly of people who have worked in the unit at Glasgow University, plus broadcasters and others who have published with us. The purpose of our work is to promote the development of new methodologies and substantive research in the area of media and communications. The Unit has obtained a series of major academic awards and research contracts. We have also developed close links with other academic groupings such as the MRC, Medical Sociology Unit at Glasgow University and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University (in jointly funded projects for the ESRC and Nuffield).

The Unit has developed techniques to link the analysis of media content with the processes by which audiences receive and interpret messages and these have been widely used by researchers in Britain and abroad. The work of the Media Unit has also generated interest across a range of disciplines and well beyond the normal academic boundaries of media studies.