“This book represents excellent, path-breaking work.”—Ryan J. Thomas, Missouri School of Journalism, serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Media Ethics, Digital Journalism, and Journalism & Mass Communication Educator
“This thoughtful, provocative book will be well-cited by not only US and European scholars but scholars around the globe.”—Linda Steiner, University of Maryland, coeditor of Front Pages, Front Lines: Media and the Fight for Women’s Suffrage
"Journalists jealously defend their autonomy from owners, advertisers, bosses, politicians, government, and even their audiences and their tools. Ornebring and Karlsson provide an invaluable genealogy of this devotion to autonomy. Their wise and timely account shows that viable autonomy is served not by building unbreachable walls around journalism but by maintaining permeable membranes. Anyone trying to understand the mess that journalism is in today should read this book."—John Nerone, University of Illinois, author of The Media and Public Life: A History