ABSTRACT
This chapter explores questions which are simple to express but complex to analyse. What is political journalism? How has it changed, especially since the 1960s? The chapter is divided into three sections which together seek to capture the changes in the networks of interdependencies which structure journalistic practice. The first section identifies the peculiarities and structural constraints of political journalism, so as to understand its basic logic, while the second and third sections describe ideal-types of ‘generations’ of political journalism.
