"Thoroughly researched and well written, this is a major addition to the agenda-setting library, a nuanced, empirically grounded presentation of the key elements that define the political, media and public agendas during elections. For journalists, citizens and political communication practitioners, Reporting Elections is a comprehensive handbook for understanding elections and improving the electoral process. For scholars, it is an invaluable guide to gaps in our knowledge, identifying productive research areas for further explicating the links among the political, media and public agendas." Maxwell McCombs, University of Texas at Austin "Cushion and Thomas' cross-national treatment of 'air wars' during election campaigns provides lots of meat for scholars and students to absorb and ponder - about influences on their coverage, political and media actors' strategies and logics, explanatory concepts, available data sets and literature references, and issues for democracy, including 'post-truth politics'." Jay Blumler, University of Leeds "This book provides an excellent and comprehensive analysis of more than 100 national and comparative studies of election news reporting. It also makes a significant original contribution in its own right, drawing on the authors' extensive empirical work in this area. Through the detail of their analysis, Stephen Cushion and Richard Thomas demonstrate the enduring electoral significance of mainstream news media, particularly broadcasting, and highlight troubling questions about the dynamics that drive the formation of contemporary election-reporting. This clear-sighted interrogation of the democratic performance of news organisations across several national and electoral contexts is of enormous value.

" David Deacon, Professor of Communication and Media Analysis, Centre for Research in Communication and Culture, Loughborough University.