This book makes a critical intervention into debates about journalism and the crisis in local news. Interrogating the history and current practice of court coverage in the UK, the author argues for its importance as a central feature of both open justice and public interest reporting.

Richard Jones is Director of Journalism, Politics and Contemporary History at the University of Salford. Before working in academia, he was a journalist for Sky News and the BBC, among others. Reporting the Courts is his first book