Public Journalism and the Problem of Objectivity

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Philip Meyer

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to reflect upon the aspects that makes Public Journalism ambiguous and makes it possible to criticize and deny it by journalist. The author discusses the compromise and the responsibility that should enclose journalism as the objectivity that the journalist should practice; both are qualities of the Public Journalism.

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Meyer, P. (2013). Public Journalism and the Problem of Objectivity. Revista Mexicana De Opinión Pública, (3). https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.24484911e.2007.3.41702
Author Biography

Philip Meyer, University of North Carolina, USA

Graduated from Harvard University. Since 1983 is a professor of journalism at the School of Journalism and Mass Comunication at the University of North Carolina. He is also a founding member of The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication on, Society of Professional Journalism and Mass Communication and the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
Saving Journalism in the Information Age (University of Missouri Press, 2004), and his article published in the Newspaper Research Journal, which is entitled "Quantifying Quality Newspaper: I know It Among his recent publications the book The Vanishing Newspaper is When I see it "(Vol. 26; No. 1;. Winter 2005). pmeyer@email.unc.edu