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‘The emperor lost his clothes’: Rupert Murdoch, News of the World and journalistic boundary work in the UK and USA:

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The authors examines the construction of deviancy episodes in the journalistic interpretive community, at times assuming international proportions, and examines the constructions of such episodes in a context of journalism.
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Episodes of journalistic deviancy become moments of reflection for the journalistic interpretive community, at times assuming international proportions This study examines the construction of appr

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Fake news from Africa: Panics, politics and paradigms:

TL;DR: The moral panic about fake news internationally has formed the backdrop for debates about the impact of the spread of similar fabrications on politics in South Africa as discussed by the authors, which is the case here.
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The discursive construction of journalistic authority in a post-truth age

TL;DR: This article examined how US journalists have assessed and constructed journalistic institutional authority from 2000 through 2016 and provided a set of pivot points around which journalistic discourse has orbited, showing how journalists renegotiated their authority in the face of challenges to journalism's material, professional role, and social impact bases.
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Journalistic Legitimacy Revisited

TL;DR: This article explored whether these changes have weakened the strength of the newsroom in general and in English-language journalism in particular, and found that the changes have had a profound impact on the quality of news.
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Talking Back: Journalists Defending Attacks Against their Profession in the Trump Era

TL;DR: According to as discussed by the authors, the survival of institutions in society is predicated on a cultural discourse, called the institutional myth, which reflects the core values, practices, and beliefs of a society.
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Gone, But Not Forgotten: Memories of journalistic deviance as metajournalistic discourse

TL;DR: This paper examined the memory of six prominent cases of journalistic misconduct in the United States to demonstrate how the journalistic community turns to past episodes of professional deviancy to make sense of itself in the face of emerging tensions.
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Comparing Media Systems: three models of media and politics

TL;DR: Hallin and Mancini as discussed by the authors proposed a framework for comparative analysis of the relation between the media and the political system, based on a survey of media institutions in eighteen West European and North American democracies.
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Deconstructing Journalism Culture: Toward a Universal Theory

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a conceptualization of journalism culture that consists of three essential constituents (institutional roles, epistemologies, and ethical ideologies), further divided into 7 principal dimensions: interventionism, power distance, market orientation, objectivism, empiricism, relativism, and idealism.
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Journalists as interpretive communities

TL;DR: This paper argued that the notion of "profession" may not offer the most fruitful way of examining community among American journalists and proposed viewing journalists as members of an interpretive community instead, one united by its shared discourse and collective interpretations of key public events.
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THE TENSION BETWEEN PROFESSIONAL CONTROL AND OPEN PARTICIPATION: Journalism and its boundaries

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the academic literature explores that larger tension transforming the creative industries by extrapolating from the case of journalism, namely, the ongoing tension between professional control and open participation in the news process.
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