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Abstract

Representations of the figure of the journalist, and media practices, are ubiquitous in cultural artefacts produced over centuries. This article explores the perennial fascination cultural producers have with the journalist-figure and lays out existing scholarship and the many different methodologies employed for its academic study. I suggest areas where researchers need to take responsibility for audience reactions to journalism fictions, particularly in TV and the cinema and suggest neglected, and further areas of research. My review of the literature on this topic, much of it only published in the past twenty years, proposes that this is an important still-emerging field of research in the area of public understanding of the media, and which is still finding its contours.

Publication Type:	Article
Publisher Keywords:	Journalists in fiction; film; representation; watchdog; field of cultural production
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > D History (General) H Social Sciences > HM Sociology H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General)
Departments:	School of Communication & Creativity School of Communication & Creativity > Department of Journalism
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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