Watchdogs, Advocates and Adversaries: Journalists’ Relational Role Conceptions in Asylum Reporting

Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist a...

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Main Authors: Markus Ojala, Reeta Pöyhtäri
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cogitatio 2018-06-01
Series:Media and Communication
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Online Access:https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1284