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Journalists need others to get their jobs done. They require sources, documents, and access to people and institutions to report stories. To massage that raw information into news and distribute it to others, they need a team — editors, photographers, layout and design professionals, web designers, editors, and programmers. Some modes of doing journalism foreground cooperation. Producing broadcast news — both radio and television — has always required a team. Despite a resurgent myth that focuses on the lone individual, producing journalism historically has been a cooperative activity, whether that cooperation is likened to a factory assembly line or a more densely networked effort. In contemporary journalists’ daily lives, cooperation, while sometimes filled with small frictions (all reporters clash with editors), is the norm.
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Wilkins, L. (2015). Paying for Journalism: An Ethics-Based and Collaborative Business Model. In: Rao, S., Wasserman, H. (eds) Media Ethics and Justice in the Age of Globalization. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137498267_5
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