Field and Ecology Approaches to Journalism Innovation: The Role of Ancillary Organizations

Promoting Newsafety from the Exile: The Emergence of New Journalistic Roles in Diaspora Journalists’ Networks

“…These "ancillary organizations", while acting in a peripheral journalistic culture, might well reformulate the core of journalism as they convey, through their various collaborations and interactions with "traditional" news organizations and journalists, new routines, behaviors, values, and norms into the journalistic practice. Lowrey, Sherrill, andBroussard (2019, 2142) also argued in their findings, that ancillary organizations "help legitimate innovation and aid adaptation of innovations with the wider ecosystem by fostering interaction". Particularly when it comes to diaspora journalism networks, this aspect becomes evident, given that the networks' primary goal is to facilitate communication with journalists on the ground, but at the same time they ensure that communications about safety reach journalists in need of such information.…”

“…To this end, the study conceptualizes the digital diasporic networks as "ancillary organizations" (Lowrey, Sherrill, and Broussard 2019). Such "ancillary organizations", which can take the form of "professional membership associations, trade groups, professional training centers, labs, foundations, and academic programs" (Lowrey, Sherrill, andBroussard 2019, 2132), are organizations that play a crucial role when it comes to promoting journalism, albeit not taking a center stage with regard to the actual news production.…”

“…To this end, the study conceptualizes the digital diasporic networks as "ancillary organizations" (Lowrey, Sherrill, and Broussard 2019). Such "ancillary organizations", which can take the form of "professional membership associations, trade groups, professional training centers, labs, foundations, and academic programs" (Lowrey, Sherrill, andBroussard 2019, 2132), are organizations that play a crucial role when it comes to promoting journalism, albeit not taking a center stage with regard to the actual news production. Their contribution is nevertheless central as we will see, given that they "play important roles in the production of meaning about new things and new ideas, both within and outside the social space" (Lowrey, Sherrill, andBroussard 2019, 2136), which means that they are able to reformulate the core of journalism, by infusing norms that might challenge the understanding of news work.…”

“…Such "ancillary organizations", which can take the form of "professional membership associations, trade groups, professional training centers, labs, foundations, and academic programs" (Lowrey, Sherrill, andBroussard 2019, 2132), are organizations that play a crucial role when it comes to promoting journalism, albeit not taking a center stage with regard to the actual news production. Their contribution is nevertheless central as we will see, given that they "play important roles in the production of meaning about new things and new ideas, both within and outside the social space" (Lowrey, Sherrill, andBroussard 2019, 2136), which means that they are able to reformulate the core of journalism, by infusing norms that might challenge the understanding of news work. Drawing on the concept of "ancillary organizations" is useful to understand the role of diaspora journalism networks and to assesses how these networks adopt or discard traditional journalistic norms in favor of other values -for instance grounded in advocacy-when it comes to promoting newsafety (Westlund, Krøvel, and Skare-Orgeret 2019) for journalists operating in Syria.…”

Escaping the news desert: Nonprofit news and open-system journalism organizations

“…Therefore, while most journalism organizations treat outside social institutions differently than advertisers, they can have, potentially, the same deleterious effects (Benson, 2018). Essentially, journalism organizations that have treated advertising as the biggest threat to their autonomy now welcome foundation support, which does impact their autonomy (Lowrey et al, 2019). In summation, journalism authority and professionalization is often predicated on the guarding of boundaries, on keeping outside influence from various social institutions out (Carlson and Lewis, 2015).…”