Chapters in Edited Books
"Newszak: Entertainment versus news and information" in Nunn, H and Biressi, A (Eds) The Tabloid Culture Reader Maidenhead: The Open University Press (2007)
"Journalism Research in Great Britain" with Wahl-Jorgensen K. in Weaver D. and Loffelholz M. (Eds) Journalism Reserch an Era of Globalization (2007) Oxford: Blackwells
"Amateurs or Adversaries? Local Journalists' Coverage of the UK Non-General Election" with Cushion S. in Wring D., Green J., Mortimore R. and Atkinson S. (Eds) (2006) Political Communications: The British General Election of 2005 (2006) Hampshire: Macmillan
"Downgrading the 'Local' in Local Newspaper Reporting of the 2005 UK General Election" with Court G. and Cushion S. in Franklin B. (Ed) Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News (2006) London: Routledge
"A Right Free For All! Competition, Soundbite Journalism and Developments in the Local Free Press" in Franklin B. (Ed) Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News (2006) London: Routledge
"Attacking the Devil? Local Journalism and Local Newspapers in the UK" in Franklin B. (Ed) Local Journalism and Local Media: Making the Local News (2006) London: Routledge
"Journalism Research in Great Britain" with Wahl-Jorgensen K. in Weaver D. and Loffelholz M. (Eds) Journalism Research in an Era of Globalization (2006) Oxford: Blackwells
"McJournalism? The McDonaldization Thesis, Local Newspapers and Local Journalism in the UK" in Allan S. (Ed) Journalism Studies: Critical Essays (2005) Milton Keynes: Open University Press
"A Damascene Conversion? New Labour, News Management and Promotional Politics" in Ludlam S. and Smith M. (Eds) Governing as New Labour (2004) Palgrave: London, 2nd Edition
"A Good Day to Bury Bad News? Journalists, Sources and the Packaging of Politics" in Cottle S. (Ed) News, Public Relations and Power (2003) London: Sage
"The Hand of History: New Labour, News Management and Governance" in Chadwick A. and Heffernan R. (Eds) The New Labour Reader (2003) Polity Press: Oxford pp. 304-309
"Children's Rights: An Introduction" in Franklin B. (Ed) The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice (2002) Routledge: London pp. 1-13
"Children's Rights and Media Wrongs: Changing Representations of Children and the Developing Rights Agenda" in Franklin B. (Ed) The New Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice (2002) Routledge: London pp. 15-43
"Television Policy Post Peacock: An Introduction" in Franklin B. (Ed) British Television Policy: A Reader (2001) London: Routledge pp. 1-19
"Press Ganged! Social Work, Child Protection and the Media" with Parton N. in Mae M., Page R. and Brunson E. (Eds) Social Problems (2001) Blackwells: Oxford pp. 110-121
"The Hand of History: New Labour, News Management and Governance" in Ludlam S. and Smith M. (Eds) New Labour, Ideology, Policy and Government (2000) Palgrave: London pp. 100-117
"Children's Rights, Media Misrepresentation and Social Policy for Children" in Cuninghame C. (Ed) Doing Rights (2000) London: Save the Children
"Children's Rights and Media Wrongs" in Verhellen E. (Ed) Children's Rights (1999) Ghent: University of Ghent Press
"Misleading Messages: The Media and Social Policy" in Social Policy, The Media and Misrepresentation (1999) London: Routledge
"Soft-Soaping the Public? The Government and Media Promotion of Policy" in Social Policy, The Media and Misrepresentation (1999) London: Routledge
"Taming the Tabloids: Markets, Moguls and Media Regulation" with Pilling R. in Kieran M. (Ed) Media Ethics (1998) London: Routledge pp. 111-123
"Changing Times: Newspapers, Technology and Markets" with Murphy D. in Franklin B. and Murphy D. (Eds) Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context (1998) London: Routledge pp. 1-24
"Old Habits Die Hard: Journalism's Changing Professional Commitments and Local Newspapers Reporting of the 1997 General Election" with Parry J. in Franklin B. and Murphy D. (Eds) Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context (1998) London: Routledge pp. 209-228
"No News Isn't Good News: The Development of Free Newspapers" in Franklin B. and Murphy D. (Eds) Making the Local News: Local Journalism in Context (1998) London: Routledge pp. 125-140
"The Local Rag in Tatters? The Decline of Britain's Local Press" with Murphy D. in Bromley M. and O'Malley T. (Eds) The Journalism Reader (1997) London: Routledge pp. 214-229
"Children's Political Rights" in Verhellen E. (Ed) Understanding Children's Rights (1997) Ghent: University of Ghent Press pp. 239-257
"Journalistische Ethik im Internationalen Vergleich - Grossbritanneien" in Hamm I. (Ed) Verantwortung im Freien Medienmarkt: Internationale Perspektiven zur Wahrung Professionaller Standards (1997) Gutersloh: Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung pp. 237-304
"Children's Right to Participate in Education: The Case of Ravenswood School Council" in Verhellen E. (Ed) Children's Rights (1996) Ghent: Martin Nijhoff pp. 317-327
"Killing the Age of Innocence: Newspaper Reporting of the Death of James Bulger" with Petley J. in Wagg S. and Pilcher J. (Eds) Thatcher's Children: Politics, Childhood and Society in the 1990s (1996) London: Frances Pinter pp. 134-155
"Growing Pains: The Developing Children's Rights Movement in the UK" with Franklin A. in Wagg S. and Pilcher J. (Eds) Thatcher's Children: Politics, Childhood and Society in the 1990s (1996) London: Frances Pinter pp. 94-114
"Policing an Unruly Fourth Estate: Regulating Tabloid Journalism" in Haralambos M. (Ed) Developments in Sociology Vol. 12 (1996) Ormskirk: Causeway Press pp. 39-63
"More Interested in Cantona than in the Match: The Decline in Newspaper Reporting of Parliament" in Stanyer J. and Hampsher Monk I. (Eds) Contemporary Political Studies (1996) Frank Cass Vol. 2
"The Nature of Rights" for BA Informal and Community Education. A Level 3 course for the distance learning study unit, Professionals, Values and Ethics (1996) YMCA George Williams College pp. 1-20
"The Case for Children's Rights: A Progress Report" in Franklin B. (Ed) The Handbook of Children's Rights: Comparative Policy and Practice (1995) London: Routledge pp. 3-25
"Packaging Politics: Causes and Consequences for Democracy" in Stanyer J. and Lovenduski J. (Eds) Contemporary Political Studies (1995) London: Frank Cass
"Packaging Politics: Politicians and the Media" in Haralambos M. (Ed) Developments in Sociology Vol. 9 (1993) Ormskirk: Causeway Press pp. 1-29
"Children and Decision Making: Developing Empowering Institutions" in Droogleever-Fortuyn M. and de Langen M. (Eds) Towards the Realisation of Human Rights for Children (1992) Amsterdam: Defence of Children International pp. 89-112
"Televising the Commons: Issues and Developments" in Franklin B. (Ed) Televising Democracies (1992) London: Routledge pp. 3-29
"The Commons on Regional Television: Parliamentary Broadcasting in a Constrained Environment" in Franklin B. (Ed) Televising Democracies (1992) London: Routledge pp. 178-203
"Social Work and the Media: A Theoretical Framework" with Parton N. in Franklin B. and Parton N. (Eds) Social Work, the Media and Public Relations (1991) London: Routledge pp. 7-55
"Age and Power" with Franklin A. in Jeffs T. and Smith M. (Eds) Youth in a Divided Society (1989) Basingstoke: Macmillan pp. 1-30
"Local Parties, Local Media and the Constituency Campaign" in Crewe I. and Harrop M. (Eds) Political Communication: The General Election 1987 (1989) Cambridge: Cambridge University press pp. 211-221
"Wimps and Bullies: Press Reporting of Child Abuse" in Carter P., Jeffs T. and Smith M. (Eds) Social Work and Social Welfare Yearbook (1989) OUP pp. 1-17
"Children's Rights" in Franklin B. (Ed) The Rights of Children (1986) Oxford: Blackwells pp. 1-24
"Children's Political Rights" in Franklin B. (Ed) The Rights of Children (1986) Oxford: Blackwells pp. 24-54