Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Problem and the Purpose of the Research -- Structure and Content of the Research -- 1 Reporting Northern Ireland: Terrorism and News Management -- Introduction -- The Background -- News Coverage of Northern Ireland: A Review of the Background Literature -- Constructing Terrorism: Issues of Convention and Articulation -- Political Control - The Broadcasting Ban -- Conclusion -- 2 The Peace Process and News as Part of Peace -- Introduction -- The Northern Ireland Peace Process: The Political Background -- News as Part of the Peace Process -- Peace Process as News Paradigm -- The Problem of Communicating Peace -- Conclusion -- 3 Political Perceptions of Reporting and the Peace Process -- Introduction -- Political Communications and the Problem of Peace -- Articulating the Peace Process: the News of Politics and the Politics of News -- Conclusion -- 4 Journalistic Perceptions of Reporting and the Peace Process -- Introduction -- Sources and Environment -- Language and Construction -- The journalist further went on to say: -- Political Pressure -- Reporting Peace and Negotiations -- Routines, Constraints and Procedures -- Conclusion -- 5 Editorial Perceptions of Reporting and the Peace Process -- Introduction -- The Problem of Broadcasting Northern Ireland and the Search for Balance -- The Representation of Conflict -- From Violence to Peace -- Routines, Time and the Political Process -- Conclusion -- 6 A Study of News Content: the IRA Ceasefire of August 1994 -- Introduction -- Speculation and Representation -- The Provisional IRA Ceasefire - 31 August 1994 -- Conclusion -- 7 News, Politics and Conflict -- Introduction -- Primary Definition and News as Hegemony -- From Consensus to Dissensus and the Impact of News on Policy