JOURNALISTS WITNESSING DISASTER: From the calculus of death to the injunction to care

Journalism Studies

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 232-248

  Cottle, Simon ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

beneficent embedding; calculus of death; cosmopolitanism; injunction to care; journalist practices

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875355247     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2012.718556     Document Type: Article

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