Putting the work (back) into newswork: Searching for the sources of normative failure

Journalism Practice

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 387-404

  Siegelbaum, Sasu ^a   Thomas, Ryan J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Labor; Labor process theory; Newsrooms; Newswork; Normative failure; Nostalgia for the future; Political economy

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011110725     PISSN: 17512786     EISSN: 17512794     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2015.1025415     Document Type: Article

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