Journalism and the NSA revelations : privacy, security and the press / edited by Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkilä, Adrienne Russell and Dmitry Yagodin.

"Published by I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd in association with the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-173) and index.

The NSA revelations as a prism / Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkila, Adrienne Russell, and Elisabeth Eide -- Two dimensions of global discourse : domestication and justification / Risto Kunelius, Heikki Heikkila, and Adrienne Russell with Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Katy Jones, Anne Mallen, Johanna Moller, Frederic Nicolas, Olivier Baisnee, Haiyan Wang, Dennis Leung, Ruolin Fang, and Dmitry Yagodin -- Justifying surveillance : the new discursive settlement in UK opinionated journalism / Karin Wahl-Jorgensen and Katy Jones -- News flashpoints : the Snowden revelations in the United States / Adrienne Russell and Silvio Waisbord -- Security, terror, and freedom : the dynamics of public opinion in the French surveillance debate / Olivier Baisnee and Frederic Nicolas -- 'Please stay frustrated!' : the politicisation of digital technologies in the German NSA debate / Johanna Moller and Anne Mallen -- Media diplomacy and the NSA : making the case at home and abroad for Chinese national interests / Haiyan Wang and Ruolin Fang -- Governance and digital sovereignty : the instrumental role of journalistic consensus in Russia / Dmitry Yagodin.

Edward Snowden's revelations about the mass surveillance capabilities of the US National Security Agency (NSA) and other security services triggered an ongoing debate about the relationship between privacy and security in the digital world. This discussion has been dispersed into a number of national platforms, reflecting local political realities but also raising questions that cut across national public spheres. What does this debate tell us about the role of journalism in making sense of global events? This book looks at discussions of these debates in the mainstream media in the USA, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia and China. The chapters focus on editorials, commentaries and op-eds and look at how opinion-based journalism has negotiated key questions on the legitimacy of surveillance and its implications to security and privacy. The authors provide a thoughtful analysis of the possibilities and limits of 'transnational journalism' at a crucial time of political and digital change.