Journalists, history and historians. The ups and downs of a professional identity

Abstract

Summary: Among those groups with which journalists have relations worthy of sociological study, historians are the most important. Yves Lavoinne analyses this 'unusually complex special relationship' from an historical point of view; in the interval between the advent of modern journalism at the end of the 19th century and today's desire to experience directly - or have the illusion of experiencing - history in the making, the interaction between these two worlds has changed.