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The discursive construction of journalistic authority in a post-truth age

This study, using a discursive institutionalism lens, examines how US journalists have assessed and constructed journalistic institutional authority from 2000 through 2016. The findings provide a set of pivot points around which journalistic discourse has orbited, showing how journalists renegotiated their authority in the face of challenges to journalism’s material, professional role, and social impact bases. While discourse comes back to authority rooted in journalism’s democratic function, journalists also appear uncertain about the basis of their authority in a seeming post-truth age.