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RITUALS OF TRANSPARENCY: Evaluating online news outlets' uses of transparency rituals in the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden
Abstract
Transparency has been suggested as a new norm in journalism. However, few studies have investigated how the overarching notion of transparency is utilized in everyday news. The purpose of this study is to identify and compare how leading mainstream online news media in the United States, United Kingdom and Sweden make use of transparency techniques in news items. The results show that transparency has begun to affect online news but that current journalism practice is a long way from a fully fledged transparency norm.
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- Authors
- Karlsson, M.
- Venue
- Journalism Studies
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2010-08
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 535-545
- ISSN
- 1461-670X (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9699
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- W1574524771
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- en
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