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Journal of Mass Media Ethics
Exploring Questions of Media Morality
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Who Is a Journalist and Why Does it Matter? Disentangling the Legal and Ethical Arguments

Erik Ugland Marquette University
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Jennifer Henderson Trinity University
Pages 241-261 | Published online: 05 Dec 2007

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Ryan J. Thomas & T. J. Thomson. (2023) What Does a Journalist Look like? Visualizing Journalistic Roles through AI. Digital Journalism 0:0, pages 1-23.
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Brett G. Johnson, Ryan J. Thomas & Jeremiah P. Fuzy. (2021) Beyond Journalism about Journalism: Amicus Briefs as Metajournalistic Discourse. Journalism Practice 15:7, pages 937-954.
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John C. Carpenter & Sujatha Sosale. (2019) The Role of Language in a Journalistic Interpretive Community. Journalism Practice 13:3, pages 280-297.
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Jane Johnston & Anne Wallace. (2017) Who is a Journalist?. Digital Journalism 5:7, pages 850-867.
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Knut De Swert & Ruud Wouters. (2011) The coverage of China in Belgian television news: a case study on the impact of foreign correspondents on news content. Chinese Journal of Communication 4:3, pages 331-347.
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Pamela Taylor Jackson. (2009) News as a Contested Commodity: A Clash of Capitalist and Journalistic Imperatives. Journal of Mass Media Ethics 24:2-3, pages 146-163.
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Joy Jenkins & Edson C TandocJrJr. (2017) Journalism under attack: The Charlie Hebdo covers and reconsiderations of journalistic norms . Journalism 20:9, pages 1165-1182.
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John P. Wihbey. 2019. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies. The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies 1 7 .
Marina A. Hendricks & Ryan J. Thomas. (2017) What’s in a Name? Journalistic Boundary Work and a High School Newspaper’s Effort to Ban “Redskin”. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 73:4, pages 454-468.
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Edson C TandocJrJr. (2017) Five ways BuzzFeed is preserving (or transforming) the journalistic field. Journalism 19:2, pages 200-216.
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Serena Carpenter & Duygu Kanver. (2017) Journalistic expertise: A communicative approach. Communication and the Public 2:3, pages 197-209.
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Joy Jenkins & Edson C TandocJrJr. (2016) The power of the cover: Symbolic contests around the Boston bombing suspect’s Rolling Stone cover . Journalism 18:3, pages 281-297.
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Elizabeth Blanks Hindman & Ryan J Thomas. (2013) When old and new media collide: The case of WikiLeaks. New Media & Society 16:4, pages 541-558.
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