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This book set out to offer a rehabilitated conception of the profession of journalism, motivated by the proposition that a healthy profession of journalism plays a fundamental role in maintaining a healthy democracy, but that the current journalism regimes in much of the West generally, and in the United States specifically, are often failing to consistently fulfil many of their most basic social obligations because many of journalism’s fundamental processes and goals have been corrupted.
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Quinn, A. (2018). A Profession of Journalism?. In: Virtue Ethics and Professional Journalism . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01428-5_10
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