Freelance Photojournalists Redefine Their Work: Perspectives on a Precarious Field

Hudson, Andrea

doi:10.1080/17512786.2023.2223189

Journalism Practice

2023

DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2223189

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Freelance Photojournalists Redefine Their Work: Perspectives on a Precarious Field

Andrea Hudson

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Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist journalists

Thomson

2024

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This study explores a key question around local visual news: what do non-specialist journalists regard as a quality news visual? This study focuses on still images as the most ubiquitous building block in the local visual news landscape, whether as thumbnails that are shared with links on social media platforms, as hero images accompanying articles, as photo galleries, or as still frames extracted from videos. Much of what we know about a quality news visual comes from the perspectives of visually literate specialists: photo editors, photojournalists, and related roles. Yet, despite the ubiquity of photographs within print and digital news, they are increasingly being made not by staff photojournalists but, rather, by freelancers, words-based reporters, or community members. As these dynamics have shifted over the past two decades, scholarship has struggled to keep up with how non-specialist journalists define the attributes and properties of a quality news visual. This study aims to address this gap within the context of local and regional news using an interview-based approach and finds that interviewees most commonly defined quality news photographs through the lens of news values, followed by technical considerations and narrative dimensions, aesthetics, the perceived effect the visual had on the audience, how the visual was made and presented, and who or what was photographed.

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Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist journalists

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2024

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“It’s a jungle”: Precarity, solidarity, and ambiguity in small conflict reporting ecosystems

Kotišová

2024

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This study, based on in-depth interviews with 22 reporters, stringers, and photojournalists working in Small Conflict Reporting Ecosystems (SE) looks into the ambivalent and ambiguous work of conflict reporters who find themselves in the middle of the conflict reporting hierarchy. It seeks to diversify the understanding of global conflict reporters’ positionalities, broaden the understanding of their precarity and the overall “crisis” of global conflict reporting, and draw inspiration from the diversity of actors and practices creating the current global conflict reporting ecosystems. I address the following questions: What makes the work of SE conflict reporters “bad”? What makes it “good”? How do SE reporters navigate the ambivalence of their work and the ambiguity of their positions? The findings illustrate how SE journalists often turn their precarious conditions and ambiguity into a creative edge and solidarity networks and show how ambiguity (rather than crisis) becomes a key concept helping to understand current conflict reporting.

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Gaziantep Yerel Medyasında Çalışan Gazetecilerin Prekaryalaşma Deneyimleri

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2024

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Çalışma koşullarında yaşanan güvencesizliğin derinleşmesi prekarya kavramına dönük çalışmaların artmasına neden olmuştur. Neoliberal politikaların etkisiyle risk faktörü dışında birçok olgunun geçicilik ve belirsizlik içermesi, çalışanların başta çalışma koşulları olmak üzere tüm yaşam alanlarını derin biçimde etkilemektedir. Meslek, yaş, cinsiyet ve coğrafya ayırt etmeksizin birçok alanda çalışanları etkileyen bu görece yeni koşullar, dünyada olduğu gibi Türkiye’de de medya çalışanlarını da güvencesizliğe tabi kılmaktadır. Bu araştırma, önemli bir toplumsal kurum olarak yerel demokrasileri güçlendirme potansiyeline sahip olan yerel medyada çalışan gazetecilerin çalışma koşullarını prekarya tartışmaları bağlamında analiz etmeyi amaçlamaktadır. Nitel araştırma yöntemine başvurulan çalışmada, toplamda on yerel gazeteci ile yarı yapılandırılmış görüşmeler gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yapılan görüşmelerin sonucunda, gazetecilerin her an işten çıkarılma endişesi yaşadıkları, kadın gazetecilerin evlenmek ve çocuk doğurmak gibi kararları bu belirsizlik süreci içerisinde ertelemek zorunda kaldıkları görülmüştür. Herkesin birbirini tanıdığı bir yerel medya ortamında dayanışma ağları geliştiremeyecek ölçüde az sayıda oldukları belirtilen yerel gazetecilerin birbirleri ile girdikleri rekabet de güvencesizliğin daha yoğun biçimde deneyimlenmesine yol açmaktadır. Bununla birlikte istihdam güvencesinden yoksun olan gazetecilerin bu rekabet ve belirsizlik ortamında işlerinden atılmamak için işverenlerin talep ettiği her işi üstlenmek zorunda hissettikleri tespit edilmiştir. Yoğun biçimde hissettikleri bu güvencesizlik biçimlerine bakıldığında yerel gazetecilerin az sayıda yerel medya kuruluşu arasında yapmak zorunda hissettikleri seçim nedeniyle de güvencesiz çalışma koşullarının yeniden üretildiği sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

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Freelance Photojournalists Redefine Their Work: Perspectives on a Precarious Field

Cited by 3 publications

References 25 publications

Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist journalists

Picturing a quality local news visual: Perspectives from non-specialist journalists

“It’s a jungle”: Precarity, solidarity, and ambiguity in small conflict reporting ecosystems

Gaziantep Yerel Medyasında Çalışan Gazetecilerin Prekaryalaşma Deneyimleri

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