Journalism Studies: The Basics. Martin Conboy. New York: Routledge, 2013. 196 pp. $22.16 pbk.In the second decade of The War on Terror, the sands of journalism are shifting from both the American and the global perspective, and from European and other regional perspectives. All the while, there is still much for journalism to explain and clarify the Americans on one hand, and the Europeans and the other regions on the other. Worldwide, at the time of writing this review, explanations are being sought about the Boston marathon bombing. Also, in world-ranked universities, English has been accepted as the language par excellence of journalism studies programs. Interestingly, U.S.- and U.K.-based media outlets set record levels of international audience involvement. Importantly, two-way cross-border journalism patterns appear as more and more corporations from emerging economies acquire businesses in the global West and vice versa. For instance CNN International now broadcasts live from its studios in Abu Dhabi, while Qatar-based Al Jazeera International benefits from cross-border journalism studies programs offered by U.S.-based international univer- sities' branch campuses in Doha. That is why recently public policy and diplomacy, and the public nature, purposes, processes, and roles of journalism studies have been the topics of extended debate and analysis.Martin Conboy, a professor of journalism history at Sheffield University, United Kingdom, undertakes the daunting task of accurately providing a springboard to newcomers for engagement with the main aspects of journalism. After a brief intro- duction explaining what this well-organized book will do and how to use it, the author divides the broad subject range into seven chapters, plus a bibliography and an index. The first three chapters deal with journalism studies' beginnings, the British response to the Americans taking charge, education and training between a hack and a hard place, and research approaches and the rise of peer reviews. The next two chapters concentrate on the processes and the end products in news gathering, war reporting, influence of owners, public relations, and outside the mainstream. The penultimate chapter looks into the international perspective; while in his final chapter of most con- temporary relevance, Conboy offers-through the lens of forms of practice-how journalism engages with and negotiates the introduction of new technology and indus- trial change.It is possible to query content and balance for a subject as broad as journalism stud- ies. Perhaps overlapping chapters and dwelling on the history of journalism at the expense of explaining what twenty-first-century journalism is all about might be mentioned as weaknesses of the book. Also, one might add the layers that follow to Conboy's (p. 24) layers of journalists as publicist, populist, editor, essayist, reporter. …