The Swiss video journalist: Issues of agency and autonomy in news production

Journalism

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 509-526

  Dickinson, Roger ^a   Bigi, Hugo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agency; Autonomy; Journalistic practices; Multi skilling; News; Technology; Video journalists; Worker alienation

Indexed keywords

EID: 68249152392     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884909104953     Document Type: Article

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