Year: 2010
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: 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.
Source: Journalism Studies
Authors: Thomas Hanitzsch, Folker Hanusch, Claudia Mellado, Maria Anikina, Rosa Berganza, Incilay Cangoz, Mihai Coman, Basyouni Hamada, María Elena Hernández, Christopher D. Karadjov, Sonia Virginia Moreira, Peter G. Mwesige, Patrick Lee Plaisance, Zvi Reich, Josef Seethaler, Elizabeth A. Skewes, Dani Vardiansyah Noor, Edgar Kee Wang Yuen
Institutions: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, University of the Sunshine Coast, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Anadolu University, University of Bucharest, Cairo University, Universidad de Guadalajara, California State University, Long Beach, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Colorado State University, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Austrian Academy of Sciences, University of Colorado Boulder, Universitas Esa Unggul, Beijing Normal-Hong Kong Baptist University
Language: English
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1825920978