Rethinking the role of common-sense in journalism and journalism studies.
Despite its crucial role in the epistemology of journalism, journalists' reliance on common- sense has received little and unsystematic scholarly attention. This conceptual paper calls for placing common-sense at the center of the epistemology of news, while underpinning it with a more systematic ap...
| Publicado en: | Communication Theory (1050-3293) Vol. 36; no. 3; pp. 145 - 154 |
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Aug2026
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