Journalists, sources and credibility : new perspectives / edited by Bob Franklin and Matt Carlson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Matt Carlson and Bob Franklin -- Credibility, transparency and diversity. Source credibility as a journalistic work tool / Zvi Reich -- Wither anonymity? journalism and unnamed sources in a changing media environment / Matt Carlson -- Journalists as "unwilling" sources: transparency and the new ethics of journalism / Angela Phillips -- Activist media as mainstream model: what can professional journalists learn from indymedia? / Chris Atton -- Entrenched practices, entrenched sources. Rules, recycling, filters and conspiracies: Nick Davies and the propaganda model / Julian Petley -- Sources, credibility and the continuing crisis of UK journalism / Bob Franklin -- Sourcing business news: a case study of public relations uptake / Tom Van Hout -- Sources of arts journalism: who's writing the arts pages? / Lucinda Strahan -- Citizens and sourcing: finding a way forward -- Are citizens becoming sources? A look into Flemish journalists? professional contacts / Jeroen De Keyser, Karin Raeymaeckers and Steve Paulussen -- The limits of audience participation: UGC @ the BBC / Andrew Williams, Claire Wardle and Karin Wahl Jorgensen -- The scope of user generated content: user contributions within online journalism / Annika Bergstrom -- Citizen journalism and everyday life: a case study of Germany's myheimat.de / Axel Bruns.