1. Mapping journalism cultures across nations. A comparative study of 18 countries
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Patrick Lee Plaisance, Mihai Coman, Peter G. Mwesige, Folker Hanusch, Edgar Kee Wang Yuen, María Elena Hernández, Sonia Virgínia Moreira, Josef Seethaler, Christopher D. Karadjov, Rosa Berganza, Basyouni Ibrahim Hamada, Incilay Cangoz, Zvi Reich, Maria Anikina, Dani Vardiansyah Noor, Elizabeth A. Skewes, Claudia Mellado, Thomas Hanitzsch, Anadolu Üniversitesi, İletişim Bilimleri Fakültesi, and Cangöz, İncilay
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Ethical Ideologies ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Globe ,Impartiality ,Politics ,Comparative research ,medicine ,Ciencias de la Información ,Sociology ,Journalists ,Survey ,media_common ,6114.13 Marketing ,Government ,business.industry ,Communication ,Social change ,Institutional Roles ,Public relations ,Objectivism ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Law ,Journalism Culture ,Comparative Research ,Journalism ,business ,Epistemologies - Abstract
WOS: 000290675700001, This article reports key findings from a comparative survey of the role perceptions, epistemological orientations and ethical views of 1800 journalists from 18 countries. The results show that detachment, non-involvement, providing political information and monitoring the government are considered essential journalistic functions around the globe. Impartiality, the reliability and factualness of information, as well as adherence to universal ethical principles are also valued worldwide, though their perceived importance varies across countries. Various aspects of interventionism, objectivism and the importance of separating facts from opinion, on the other hand, seem to play out differently around the globe. Western journalists are generally less supportive of any active promotion of particular values, ideas and social change, and they adhere more to universal principles in their ethical decisions. Journalists from non-western contexts, on the other hand, tend to be more interventionist in their role perceptions and more flexible in their ethical views.
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- 2011