Lifestyle Journalism as Popular Journalism

Fürsich, Elfriede

doi:10.1080/17512786.2011.622894

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“…"Receiving a free trip and luxury accommodation may arguably lead a journalist to be purely positive, if only so that they may be asked back on another trip or the sponsor does not withdraw their advertising", says Hanusch (2010, 74). Fürsich (2012) notes how the rise of consumer culture increased journalistic coverage of entertainment, relaxation and consumption-driven lifestyle reporting, like travel. This journalism addresses audiences primarily as consumers, which leads to increasing interdependence of journalism and advertisers (cf.…”

Section: Travel Journalism and The Representation Of Turkey: The Medimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…"Soft news" has largely been neglected by scholars, as it addresses readers as consumers rather than citizens, and has little political authority (Fürsich 2012;Hanitzsch 2007;Keeble 2001). Consequently, the institutional, structural, regulatory and ethical dimensions of hard news journalism are well documented, while there is little research on the journalistic treatment of lifestyle, food, arts, health, sports and the main theme of this article: travel and tourism.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“Try A Taste of Turkey”

Hamid-Turksoy¹,

Kuipers²,

Zoonen³

2013

Journalism Studies

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This article explores the cultural representation of Turkey as a travel destination for British tourists. Drawing on findings from a qualitative content analysis of 99 travel features published in three British broadsheet and three tabloid papers over a five-year period, we investigate the content and form of travel journalism as a journalistic genre dedicated to the representation of far-away places and the "Others" who live there. Looking at generic conventions and representations of Turkey at three levels-geography, landscape and culture, and the Turkish people-we found remarkable commonalities between broadsheet and tabloid travel journalism, although they have different institutional structures and cater to different audiences. Travel journalism as a practice is upbeat, positive, service-oriented and driven by market forces. The language is hyperbolic and flowery. In direct contrast with Turkey's negative framing in European political journalism, travel journalism frames the country positively: as a stunning, risk-free travel destination readers can dream about. Through the gatekeeping of travel journalists, Turkey is filtered, packaged and made consumable, allowing British readers to fantasise about an exotic and mysterious place with gorgeous beaches. Turkey also is presented as a country with an oriental and authentic flavour geographically "in" Europe, but different from Europe. The Turks are orientalised and introduced to the Western reader as Others. We argue that both the linguistic conventions and the representational politics of travel journalism are inclined to commodify countries with new practices of consumerism.

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Section: Travel Journalism and The Representation Of Turkey: The Medimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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“Try A Taste of Turkey”

Hamid-Turksoy¹,

Kuipers²,

Zoonen³

2013

Journalism Studies

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“…First of all, journalism scholars (as well as journalists) have used and continue to use different terminologies for this type of journalism. Some use the inclusive term "lifestyle journalism" (e.g., Fürsich, 2012;Hanusch, 2012Hanusch, , 2017, others the more exclusive term "arts journalism" (e.g., Chong, 2017;Harries & Wahl-Jorgensen, 2007;Sarrimo, 2017), while still others focus on particular cultural sub-beats, such as music journalism, food journalism, and fashion journalism (e.g., Bradford, 2014;Turner & Organge, 2013). This lack of terminological consensus has made cultural journalism a less demarcated research area.…”

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Cultural journalism—Journalism about culture

Kristensen

2019

Sociology Compass

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This article is an introduction to “cultural journalism,” a specialised type of professional journalism that covers and debates the broad field of arts and culture. The article points to some of the research traditions that have engaged with the news media's coverage of arts and culture and inspired contemporary cultural journalism research, among them cultural sociology and the sociology of journalism. Furthermore, the article outlines the institutional roles and epistemology of cultural journalism, which in several respects differ from dominating normative conceptions of Western journalism. At the same time, the article shows that contemporary journalism shares many similarities with the approaches found in culural journalism, such as interpretation, emotionality, and subjectivity. Finally, the article points to important future paths for cultural journalism research, including comparative perspectives and the political dimensions and potentialities of cultural journalism.

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“…However, such an assertion may also potentially overlook some of the broader cultural and political potentials of this, in itself, wide journalistic sub-field (e.g. From, 2018;Fürsich, 2012;Hanusch, 2012). Another future path in the field might thus be to look in more detail at those parts of journalism studies that have long theorised and conceptualised subjectivity and individual approaches, as they may inform current studies of subjectivity and individual exposure across various topical areas.…”

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confidence: 99%