Determinants of Journalists' Professional Autonomy: Individual and National Level Factors Matter More Than Organizational Ones

Reich, Zvi; Hanitzsch, Thomas

doi:10.1080/15205436.2012.669002

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“…Refer to pressures in the newsroom due to economic imperatives and commercial considerations Hanitzsch, 2013). In this sense, while the traditional media are facing a decline in investment from their sources of funding (APM, 2013; Casero-Ripollés; Cullell-March, 2013), the new digital media face even more economic problems (Bruno;Nielsen, 2012).…”

Section: Economic Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Digital vs. traditional media journalists: sociodemographic characteristics, and external and internal threats to their autonomy

Berganza¹,

Calderón

Herrero-Jiménez

2016

EPI

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Rosa Berganza, professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, has an extensive international comparative research experience in the study of journalism and political communication. She is expert in applied content analysis methodology and surveys. Prof. Berganza has leaded and collaborated on several projects funded by the European Commission as Infocore (project ID: 613308, 7th Framework Program) KeywordsJournalists; Journalistic routines; Online media; Traditional media; Professional autonomy; Perceived influences. ResumenEl surgimiento de medios digitales nativos y su consecuente exposición hacia diversas fuentes de influencia, hacen necesario conocer si la percepción de las y los nuevos periodistas sobre las posibles amenazas a su autonomía profesional difiere de la de sus compañeros/as de medios tradicionales (prensa, radio, TV, agencias, etc.). Este artículo muestra los datos de una encuesta nacional (representativa, estratificada por tipo de medio y comunidad autónoma) a 390 periodistas españoles entre marzo de 2014 y mayo de 2015, a quienes se les consultó sobre las influencias políticas, económicas, organizativas, de rutinas profesionales y de grupos de referencia, que perciben en su trabajo. A pesar de que existen claras diferencias sociodemográficas, los resultados muestran que, salvo en el caso de las influencias de los grupos de referencia, existe una percepción homogénea de los diferentes factores modelados entre ambos tipos de periodistas. Se discuten las implicaciones teóricas y prácticas. Palabras clavePeriodistas; Rutinas periodísticas; Medios digitales; Medios tradicionales; Autonomía profesional; Influencias percibidas.Berganza, Rosa; Arcila-Calderón, Carlos; Herrero-Jiménez, Beatriz (2016). "Digital vs. traditional media journalists: sociodemographic characteristics, and external and internal threats to their autonomy". El profesional de la información, v. 25, n. 2, pp. 179-187.

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Section: Economic Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is clear, however, that the work of journalists is affected by multiple forces of influence that often operate simultaneously (Hanitzsch et al, 2010;Hanitzsch, 2013;Plaisance;Hanitzsch, 2012). These influences vary across media systems and diachronically within the same country, and even within the same organization.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital vs. traditional media journalists: sociodemographic characteristics, and external and internal threats to their autonomy

Berganza¹,

Calderón

Herrero-Jiménez

2016

EPI

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“…Different to other professions, like Medicine or Law (or as the behavior of a normal human being who is relatively independent in life and can take its own decisions), journalism as a profession is a more heteronomous field (Bourdieu, 2005) where journalists are more exposed to different internal and external constrains that limit in different levels their autonomy to do what they would like to do (Hanitzsch & Reich, 2013;Mellado & Humanes, 2012). Because of structural components that have been always part of the profession, journalists have clear limitations to the freedom they have to take decision, and to behave according to their own ideals.…”

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Professional roles and news construction: a media sociology conceptualization of journalists’ role conception and performance

Hellmueller

Mellado²

2015

CommSoc

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Journalists' professional roles entail an important research area, which enhances knowledge on journalism's attempted impact on political and democratic life. Journalism scholars, however, tend not to study journalistic professional roles from its impact on news content but focus on journalists' conception of their role concluding that the way journalists conceive of their role will eventually shape the stories they produce. Hence, the link between role conception and role performance (i.e., its impact on news) has caught more attention as a justification of research interest than as loci of empirical examination. This conceptual paper revisits this assumption, arguing for an indepth discussion of what the concept of professional role entails to understand its manifestation in news. As journalistic performance must be considered a collective outcome, this article addresses the concept of professional role from its relationship to structural characteristics of media work. Our approach suggests a media sociology conceptualization of professional roles that takes into consideration the gatekeeping context, and most importantly the organizational and societal levels, when analyzing professional roles of journalists.

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“…A wave of very influential sociological studies then followed in the 1970s and 1980s (for a review, see Stonbely, 2015), yielding insights into news production at Anglo-American elite news organizations that hold sway to this day. The past two decades have witnessed a global-comparative turn in the study of journalism, with multinational research projects such as the Worlds of Journalism Study (Reich and Hanitzsch, 2013) or Journalistic Role Performance around the Globe (Mellado and Van Dalen, 2014).…”

Section: Historical Perspectivesmentioning

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Mediatization and the Language of Journalism

Hout¹,

Burger²

2016

Oxford Handbooks Online

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Determinants of Journalists' Professional Autonomy: Individual and National Level Factors Matter More Than Organizational Ones

Cited by 149 publications

References 39 publications

Digital vs. traditional media journalists: sociodemographic characteristics, and external and internal threats to their autonomy

Digital vs. traditional media journalists: sociodemographic characteristics, and external and internal threats to their autonomy

Professional roles and news construction: a media sociology conceptualization of journalists’ role conception and performance

Mediatization and the Language of Journalism

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