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Explaining the gap between role conception and performance in journalism

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Ruth Palmer, Benjamin Toff & Rasmus Kleis Nielsen. (2020) “The Media Covers Up a Lot of Things”: Watchdog Ideals Meet Folk Theories of Journalism. Journalism Studies 21:14, pages 1973-1989.
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Yiping Xia, Sue Robinson, Megan Zahay & Deen Freelon. (2020) The Evolving Journalistic Roles on Social Media: Exploring “Engagement” as Relationship-Building between Journalists and Citizens. Journalism Practice 14:5, pages 556-573.
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Imke Henkel, Neil Thurman & Veronika Deffner. (2019) Comparing Journalism Cultures in Britain and Germany: Confrontation, Contextualization, Conformity. Journalism Studies 20:14, pages 1995-2013.
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Ingrid Bachmann & Constanza Mujica. (2019) Exemplars as Argumentative Strategy in Broadcast News: Analyzing the Case of Chile. Journalism Practice 13:9, pages 1042-1056.
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