Abstract
This chapter provides an overview of approaches to understanding media relations, from focusing on agenda-setting and framing to journalist-public relations practitioner relations, to understand the complexity of relationship-building with traditional media and non-traditional stakeholders who have their own mediated channels. This chapter reviews the first years of media relations development and describes theories, frameworks, and concepts that help to better understand and explain various aspects of media relations. The chapter also examines current theoretical approaches to contemporary media relations research and practice. It concludes with recommendations for future studies and proposes several directions, including the need to address auto-communication effects of media relations, among others.
