Media production in a transnational setting: Three models of immigrant journalism

Abstract

This study presents an empirical, qualitative investigation into the practices of Venezuelan journalists in South Florida. The Venezuelan population in the United States has more than doubled in the past decade, making it the fastest growing sub-population of Latinos in the country, and a majority of these new arrivals have settled in South Florida. Given the rapid changes this community has undergone in the previous 10 years, the results of this investigation provide a more complete picture of global journalism and transnational migration in the digital media era through the recognition of the complexities inherent in the work of immigrant journalists, offering new contributions to conceptualizations of immigrant assimilation as non-linear and providing an updated framework for understanding the production of Spanish-language, immigrant media in the United States. Three models of immigrant journalism are presented and discussed as a final result of the research.

Strategies and (survival) tactics: The case of Syrian oppositional media in Turkey

“…However, this tactic is also explicitly linked to attempts to avoid direct conflict with the Turkish authorities. This is also in line with the organisations' political oppositional stance (Shumow, 2014) that sees their mandate and aims largely through the prism of their political opposition to the regime of Bashar al-Asad in Syria. Thus, Syrian oppositional media in Turkey has largely avoided providing commentary on the tumultuous last few years in Turkey.…”

“…The exilic condition accentuates a further facet of these media organisations, that is, their forced departure and transplantation in a foreign landscape. The extraordinary situation of exile, especially in connection with the oppositional identity, establishes itself as a mode of journalism that is 'politically driven as well as transnational in scope' focusing on audiences and content in the homeland, and can be seen as distinct from ethnic or diasporic media (Shumow, 2014(Shumow, : 1079. Hamid Naficy, in their study on Iranian exilic cinema, also notes the political and ideologically oppositional identity underpinning their work so that the filmmakers tend to define 'all things in their lives not only in relationship to the homeland but also in strictly political terms ' (2001: 12).…”

Remembering Ireland: News flows and 1916 in the transnational mediascape

“…Some definitions of diaspora journalism include descriptions of traits that can change from organisation to organisation, such as professionalism or volunteering, individuals or collectives, short or long life, and are sometimes shaped by what drives the journalism (public sphere function) or what it is used for (self-expression; Kperogi, 2011; Matsaganis and Katz, 2013; Ogunyemi, 2014; Rai and Cottle, 2007; Shumow, 2014; Skjerdal, 2011). I propose a definition that removes inconsistent characteristics, here, understood to be the process or practice of identifying, gathering, assessing, creating and distributing current affairs information from both homeland and hostland deemed to be of high news value to a specific ethnocultural group/audience.…”

Ethnic media, conflict, and the nation-state: Kurdish broadcasting in Turkey and Europe and mediated nationhood

“…In many cases, ethnic media are the result of migration movements, but their expansion can also be explained by a wider emergence of 'community, alternative, oppositional, participatory and collaborative media practices' (Deuze, 2006: 263). Ethnic media producers and professionals often have strong ties with the specific community they work for, which results in challenges with regard to professionalization and community advocacy (Matsaganis and Katz, 2014;Matsaganis et al, 2011;Shumow, 2014) as well as negotiating and balancing professional and ethnic identities (Husband, 2005).…”