ABSTRACT
Journalism and journalists face two sets of challenges, one intellectual and one structural. The structural issues boil down to questions of mastery and control: Do journalists enjoy the freedom and autonomy that good journalism demands? Who or what undermines that independence? What can be done to retain or regain-or perhaps even establish-journalism’s authority in the community? And how should journalists reconcile their autonomy and authority with the pleas for accountability that a democratic press needs to take seriously? In short, what would it take, to recycle the title of a famous American report, published in 1947 but still very much on target today, to bring about a genuinely “free and responsible press”?
