Creating value and valuing creation in contemporary UK television: Or "dumbing down" the workforce

Journalism Studies

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-46

  Ursell, Gill ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Broadcast Employment; Broadcast Journalists; Broadcasting Policy; De professionalisation; Dumbing Down; Television

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977129713     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700306501     Document Type: Article

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