Contemporary Journalism in the US and Germany: Agents of Accountability
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leeds
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- UOA34-3729
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.1057/978-1-137-51537-7
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- ISBN
- 9781137515360
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This book is based on extensive ethnographic field work, conducted in the USA and Germany over a period of 3.5 years, involving 72 semi-structured interviews and 350 hours of observation of political reporting. The interviews included journalists from 31 different news organizations and spokespeople from different branches of government and legislatures. The monograph is further based on an analysis of discourses of professionalism, including 417 jury statements of major national journalism awards and 151 obituaries of 88 journalists from 1980 until 2013. The book provides an in-depth comparative analysis of professional cultures of journalism in the two countries.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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