Defending a paradigm by patrolling a boundary: Two global newspapers' approach to WikiLeaks

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 377-396

  Coddington, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

boundary work; objectivity; Paradigm repair; WikiLeaks

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LINE; ETHICS; INTERNET; MASS MEDIA;

EID: 84870590030     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1077699012447918     Document Type: Article

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