The Routledge Companion to Media and Scandal brings together, in one volume, different concepts in analysing various dimensions of scandals and to understand media practices and journalism in different countries and cultures.

IntroductionHoward Tumber and Silvio Waisbord1 Media and ScandalHoward Tumber and Silvio WaisbordPart IKEY CONCEPTS IN Media and SCANDAL STUDIEs2 Scandal and Social TheoryScott Brenton3 Media Coverage of Political Scandals: Effects of Personalization and Potential for Democratic Reforms Marion R. Just and Ann N. Crigler4 Moral Panics Rodney Tiffen5 Scandals and Agenda SettingSharon Meraz6 Mediatization and Political ScandalBingchun Meng 7 Scandal and News ValuesBrian McNair8 Selecting scandal: How Legacy and Social Media Gatekeep the NewsElizabeth Stoycheff9 Scandals and Social Accountability Enrique Peruzzotti10 Media Framing of Political Scandals: Theoretical Framework and Empirical EvidenceJurgen Maier, Carolin Jansen and Christian von Sikorski11 Fake News and ScandalJason Cabañes, C. W. Anderson and Jonathan Corpus OngPART IIPOLITICAL CONTEXT and MEDIA DYNAMICS of SCANDALS12 New Nordic Noir: Political Scandals as Drama and Media HuntsSigurd Allern and Ester Pollack13 Political Scandal and Kompromat: Manufactured Outrage from RussiaSarah Oates14 Right-wing Populism, Media and Political Scandal Juha Herkman and Janne Matikainen15 Corruption Scandals and the Media System Paolo Mancini 16 Social Media and ScandalGina Masullo Chen17 The Shifting Boundaries of Elite and Tabloid Media in Political Sex Scandals Esa Väliverronen and Laura Juntunen18 Talk Scandals: The Power of Mediated Talk Mats Ekström and Bengt Johansson19 Legal Contexts in Reporting Scandal in the United States, the United Kingdom, and RussiaLyombe Eko 20 Unreported Scandals: The Power of Personality and Legal BlusterJudith Townend Part IIIScandals and Journalistic practices21 Scandals and Freedom of InformationDavid Cuillier 22 Transnational Investigative Journalism and ScandalMichael Bromley 23 Media Stings and the Normalization of Scandal in India Kalyani Chadha 24 To Bark or to Bite? Journalism and Entrapment Zohar Kampf 25 From Snowden to Cambridge Analytica: An Overview of Whistleblowing Cases as Scandals Philip Di Salvo26 Data Journalism and the Promise of TransparencySylvain Parasie 27 Caught Between Transparency and Scandals-making: Conceptualising WikiLeaks Benedetta Brevini and Jorge Valdovinos28 Scandal Mining and Socially Mediated Visibility Daniel Trottier Part IVTHEMES AND SETTINGS OF MEDIA SCANDALS29 Surveillance Scandals and the Systemic Crisis of the PublicRisto Kunelius and Adrienne Russell 30 Scandal and CelebrityLinda Steiner 31 Reframing the Gender Gap in American Political Sex Scandals in the #MeToo EraHinda Mandell32 Scandals and Sport David Rowe 33 The Scandalous Power of the Press: Phone Hacking in the UKNatalie Fenton34 #AidToo? The 2018 Humanitarian Scandals in Oxfam GB and Save the ChildrenGlenda Cooper35 Scandals and the Armed ForcesMark Blach-Ørsten and Anker Brink Lund36 Sex Trafficking and ScandalGretchen Soderlund37 Race Scandals as Racial ProjectsMaryann Erigha38 Scandals in ScienceHeather Akin39 Scandals, Media, and ReligionPaul Soukup40 Corporate Scandalization Process: Unpacking the Corporate Scandal W. Timothy Coombs and Sherry J. Holladay41 Corporate Scandals as Denial of Reputation Daniel Vogler and Mark Eisenegger Part VConsequences and Legacies of Media Scandals42 Shame and Scandal: Making the Personal PoliticalJulian Petley 43 Scandal, Media Effects and Political Candidates Clarisse Warren and Dona-Gene Barton 44 Scandals, Media Effects, and Public OpinionFrancis L. F. Lee45 The Political Consequences of Corruption Scandals: Main Findings and ChallengesMacarena Ares, Sofia Breitenstein and Enrique Hernández46 Media Priming Effects and Ethical Ambivalence in CorruptionRosa Berganza and Roberto de Miguel Pascual47 Protecting Public Perception: Responding to Scandal using Benoit’s Image Repair TheoryKenon A. Brown, Qingru Xu and Melanie Formentin48 The Routinization of Media Scandals Maria Grafström and Karolina Windell 49 Scandal and the LawGavin Phillipson50 Why Scandals (Might) Be Good For Democracy Brandon Rottinghaus