BY ANASTASIIA GRYNKO

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The contributors to the book (Salvador Alsius, Christopher Tulloch, Carles Singla, Mònica Figueras, Ruth Rodríguez, Francesc Salgado, Fabiola Alcalá and Marcel Mauri) have a strong academic background and solid research and practical experience in journalism. They were all involved in the research team. The volume is edited by Salvador Alsius, PhD in Journalism, Head of Journalism at the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, also working as a television journalist. An original research methodology and advanced fieldwork make the findings, presented in the text, especially valuable. Starting from the content analysis of ethical codes and documents that regulate media ethics in Spain, the researchers complete an inventory of formalized norms that guide contemporary journalism. Generally, the book covers four fundamental principles (truth, justice, freedom and responsibility) that constitute the “backbone” of the profession and provide a wellorganized deontological basis for further analysis of journalists’ attitudes. Then, the combination of qualitative (in-depth interviews) and quantitative (survey) research methods helps to obtain a complementary picture of the value system employed by journalists in practice. The study's findings also provide rich demographic characteristics of the journalist community in Catalonia, providing a “snapshot” of people working in the field today. Taken as a whole, the text by Salvador Alsius and his team of Catalonian scholars contributes to the global work on media and media ethics that, according to Zelizer (2004), usually lodges in philosophy and sociology. Connecting conceptual issues with the …

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