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CAMPBELL DOUGLAS PHILOSOPHY OF JOURNALISM ESSAY 1 MARCH 2003 "An editor is required to edit and should not be fettered by the direction of any third party, unless, of course, that was agreed in advance." (The Journalist, December 1995) Editors have a responsibility to print information, opinions and ideas without outside restraint but within the accepted boundaries of legal, moral and ethical concerns. This is broadly accepted as the ideal model of journalism practice. The editor can find himself bound by criminal or civil law and codes of practice and conduct, which can be considered acceptable forms of censorship necessary for the common good. However, it is the newspaper owner's inevitable links with commerce and the state which represents the greatest threat to editorial autonomy. With the advent of Gutenberg's moveable type in the 15th century came the first news books which developed into newspapers and gave birth to editorial autonomy in its earliest sense. But...

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