Journalists in the United Kingdom: British “exceptionalism”
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Journalism in Britain is paradoxical. The number of journalists is expanding, despite declining sales of newspapers and financial pressures in broadcast media. Public opinion surveys indicate that journalists are not respected, yet young people are eager to take up media careers. A typical entrant to journalism is now a university graduate, and university-based training is expanding. At the same time, the training system is in chaos and many practitioners continue to claim that the skills needed are more practical than intellectual. Even in today’s “knowledge Society”, journalism in Britain has neither the institutional structures nor the self-identity of a profession. In occupational ideology and mythology, journalists (even in serious and politically influential media) portray themselves as footloose craft workers.
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