News media ethics and the management of professionals

1 March 1986

journal article
research article
Published by Informa UK Limited in Journal of Mass Media Ethics

Vol. 1 (2), 37-46
https://doi.org/10.1080/08900528609358265

Abstract

Professionalism reduced to its central ideal involves the autonomy of an occupation to control its own practice. This ideal coincides with the most fundamental prerequisite of ethical behavior: the freedom to make ethical choices. This essay argues that professionalism has not provided journalists with the appropriate kind of autonomy for fully meaningful ethical behavior.

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