Journalism Studies: The Basics

Confronting Uncertainty: The Contours of an Inferential Community

“…The overall goal is to relay the goings-on in the world, while explaining to the degree possible why those events occurred, and any implications they have for the public (Carey, 2007). This is at the core of journalistic work (Hanitzsch & Vos, 2018), as presenting newsworthy occurrences within “socially shared frameworks” of understanding to explain what happened, why it happened, and for whom it is relevant, and so on (Conboy, 2013, p. 2). At the most basic level, this can be seen as the sense-making that is at the core of journalistic practice (Goode, 2009).…”

‘Disruption’ in UK journalism education? A study of narratives of resilience

“…In other words, to ensure that journalism skills are taught within a broader critical framework which draws on long established academic disciplines in the social sciences, humanities and other cognate fields of intellectual inquiry. With the emergence of the discipline of journalism studies (Conboy 2013), one might have thought that the difficulties of reconciling these two elements of journalism education would be relatively easily overcome. Within a university setting, whether it be a university in the UK, in France or the US, the application of scholarly principles to any intellectual endeavour should never be up for question.…”

Elemental Forms

“…However, as the newspaper shared an ancestor with the periodical miscellanies common in the period, there was considerable formal overlap, especially between weekly newspapers and periodicals. 14 The newspaper stamp helped differentiate between the two genres by clearly indicating the (paid-for) presence of news, but the long existence of the vibrant unstamped press suggests that it remained only a marker and that more formal continuities associated publications with one another. After the reduction in 1836, the stamp became increasingly important as a generic marker as more publications paid the duty in order to take advantage of the postal benefits.…”