Between profession and audience codes of conduct and transparency as quality instruments for off-and online journalism

Journalism Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 407-422

  van der Wurff, Richard ^a   Schönbach, Klaus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Codes of conduct; Journalistic standards; Online news; Quality; Transparency

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960548234     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2010.506055     Document Type: Article

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