The competing ideals of objectivity and dialogue in american journalism

Journalism

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 473-491

  Soffer, Oren ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Bakhtin; Buber; Dialogue; New journalism; Objectivity; Postmodernism; Public journalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249149431     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909104950     Document Type: Article

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