Out of the shadows : the editor as a defining characteristic of journalism

• Main Author: Duffy, Andrew
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Audience Participation; Blogs; DRNTU::Social sciences::Journalism
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/82137; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/48885
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The editor has often been hidden in scholarship under the catch-all term of ‘journalist’. Yet the roles of editor and reporter, while overlapping, are distinct. That distinction is essential to make because the editorial function is one of the defining characteristics of news journalism that separat...