Introduction: Journalism, Discourse and the Reproduction of Inequality

Henry Silke, Fergal Quinn and Maria Rieder

1. ‘Piketty is a genius, but … ’: an analysis of journalistic delegitimation of Thomas Piketty’s economic policy proposals

Maria Rieder and Hendrik Theine

2. Denying, downplaying, debating: defensive discourses of inequality in the debate on Piketty

Andrea Grisold and Henry Silke

3. ‘Overpaid’ and ‘inefficient’: print media framings of the public sector in The Irish Times and The Irish Independent during the financial crisis

Aileen Marron

4. Cooking a corporation tax controversy: Apple, Ireland and the EU

Ciara Graham and Brendan K. O’Rourke

5. Her name was Clodagh: Twitter and the news discourse of murder suicide

Fergal Quinn, Muireann Prendergast and Audrey Galvin

6. Discourses of tragedy: a comparative corpus-based study of newspaper reportage of the Berkeley balcony collapse and Carrickmines fire

Fergal Quinn and Elaine Vaughan

7. Fake news? A critical analysis of the ‘Welfare Cheats, Cheat Us All’ campaign in Ireland

Eoin Devereux and Martin J. Power

8. Narrowing the discourse? Growing precarity in freelance journalism and its effect on the construction of news discourse

Kathryn Hayes and Henry Silke