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/ 13 May 2004

Serving Two Masters

"Today’s journalists have to perform an incredibly intricate balancing act. On the one hand readers, viewers and listeners must be able to trust journalists to give them the no-holds-barred truth. On the other hand advertisers expect value for money." What’s happened to the once sacred wall between editorial and advertising? Helen Ueckermann researches how, and why, the modern journalist struggles with commercial pressures.