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Abstract

When Jeremy Tunstall began the research which led to his study Journalists at Work, published in 1971, he lamented that "not a single social science study of any aspect of British journalism existed". An enormous amount of academic research on the media and its effects has flowed across Bratish campuses since then but, despite the vigorous level of journalistic practice in this country, none of it has included a comprehensive assessment of the nature, attitudes and formation of British journalists of the kind carried out elsewhere, notably in America and Australia. This surprising deficiency will be remedied when the preliminary findings of a major research project undertaken by the School of Media of the London College of Printing and Distributive Trades are published towards the end of this year. Collaborating researchers John Henningham and Anthony Delano offer a progress report.