ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of qualitative approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in journalism studies. It starts with approaches to Critical Linguistics (CL), which began to account for the social production of language in news texts. The chapter covers a second development where CL frameworks informed expansive models of CDA that were designed to rigorously interrogate journalistic texts, discursive practices and social contexts. It discusses the transnational developments that have occurred across the field of critical discourse studies. The chapter accounts for some developments in CDA that have expanded beyond linguistic analysis through multimodal approaches to news media and online news. It shows readers how CDA and journalism studies have developed over time through a particular direction and design that is sensitive to the social production and ideological operations of news discourse. The chapter demonstrates what CDA needs to do in order to continually progress and account for the rapid developments of multimedia platforms and online journalism.
