When discussing news selection and the media’s function of issue framing, the technical term agenda-setting is often invoked. In contrast, its counterpart, agenda-cutting, is far less frequently addressed in academic or public discourse. Yet agenda-cutting represents a widespread practice in media, politics, and society, whereby topics are deliberately or inadvertently excluded from public discourse or withheld from it. The Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung (INA) (i.e. Initiative News Enlightenment), a partner organization of the US-american Project Censored, has long been engaged in the systematic examination of neglected topics and news items. This edited volume is the first to offer an in-depth scholarly exploration of the phenomenon from multiple perspectives.

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Dr. Hektor Haarkötter is a Professor of Communication Studies with a focus on Political Communication at the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and chairman of the Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung (INA).
Dr. Jörg-Uwe Nieland is a Senior Scientist at the University of Klagenfurt and affiliated with the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences and the German Sport University Cologne and board member of the Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung (INA).