The History Beat: How a Journalist Covers the Past.
This essay reports on a new trend where journalists turn semi-pro historians and analyses the pitfalls of this "journalist semi-pro" approach. Very few journalists possess the skills of a well-trained historian; so they heavily rely on the hard work of others, and distill it for the general reader....
| Publicado en: | Harvard Review no. 31; pp. 170 - 183 |
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Harvard Review
2006
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