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The book provides a fresh perspective on the shifting media landscape within Washington DC, re-evaluating journalist-source relationships, the power dynamic within the media corps, and the ways in which technology have changed the description of DC political news - detailing the ways in which media relationships are changing within Washington DC.

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1. Introduction 2. Correspondents´ Perceptions and Interactions with DC Sources 3. News-Gathering and Sourcing Routines of DC Correspondents 4. The Correspondents´ Professional Worldviews of their Interactions with Sources 5. The DC Transnational Journalism Culture of the 21st Century 6. The Analytical Model of Transnational Journalism Culture

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Lea Hellmueller is Assistant Professor in the Department of Journalism at Texas Tech University, USA. She serves as the co-investigator of the Journalistic Role Performance Project (journalisticperformance.org). She was a Postdoctoral Fellow (University of Texas-Austin), visiting researcher at the University of Santiago, and Fulbright and Swiss NSF scholar at the Missouri School of Journalism (2010-2012).

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