Contested autonomy: Professional and popular claims on journalistic norms

Journalism Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 79-95

  Singer, Jane B ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Autonomy; Bloggers; Ethics; Journalists; Norms; Professionalism; Transparency; Truth

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008919372     PISSN: 1461670X     EISSN: 14699699     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14616700601056866     Document Type: Article

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