The Washington, DC Media Corps in the 21st Century

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).

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