The invention of journalism ethics : the path to objectivity and beyond / Stephen J.A. Ward.
"Stephen Ward goes back to the partisan English newsbooks of the seventeenth century to pinpoint the origins of journalistic ethics. He demonstrates that concern for objectivity gained momentum in the late 1800s and discusses the many factors that motivated journalists to construct their own id...
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| Language: | English |
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Montreal ; Ithaca :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2004]
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| Series: | McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reinventing journalism ethics
- 1. Objectivity : senses and origins
- 2. Objectivity : ancient, early modern, positivist
- 3. The invention of journalism ethics : the seventeenth century
- 4. The invention of a public ethic : the eighteenth century
- 5. Anticipating objectivity : the nineteenth century
- 6. Objectivity and after : the twentieth century
- Epilogue : the future of objectivity.