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This chapter begins by examining two discursive practices, interviewing and reporting, which have been invented and developed by journalists. The origins of these practices being neither political nor literary, they help to differentiate the journalistic discourse from other classes of texts. The chapter then proceeds to analyse a discursive norm, that of objectivity, which is also specific to journalism.
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Chalaby, J.K. (1998). Discursive Norms and Practices in Journalism. In: The Invention of Journalism. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376175_6
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