Mind the Gap

Tandoc, Edson C.; Hellmueller, Lea; Vos, Tim P.

doi:10.1080/17512786.2012.726503

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“…Most of the studies mentioned above have focused on journalists' normative and cognitive ideas, and researchers are just starting to pay more attention to the way these roles are enacted in practice (e.g., Carpenter, Boehmer, & Fico, 2016;Mellado & Van Dalen, 2014;Tandoc, Hellmueller, & Vos, 2013). One common method was to compare journalists' ideals with self-reported "performance."…”

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Journalistic Roles and the Struggle Over Institutional Identity: The Discursive Constitution of Journalism

2017

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The study of journalistic roles tends to be descriptive and is thin on theory. This article advances an understanding of journalistic roles as being discursively constituted and builds on the notion of journalism as a discursive institution. Journalistic roles are negotiated in a relational structure—the discursive field—where journalists, news outlets, and media organizations struggle over discursive authority in conversations about journalism's identity and locus in society. Journalistic roles are articulated and enacted on 2 distinct levels: role orientations (normative and cognitive roles) and role performance (practiced and narrated roles). The process model of journalistic roles proposes a circular structure, where normative, cognitive, practiced, and narrated roles are connected through processes of internalization, enactment, reflection, normalization, and negotiation.

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Journalistic Roles and the Struggle Over Institutional Identity: The Discursive Constitution of Journalism

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“…Tandoc et al, 2012). The first concept refers to functions that journalists perceive they should serve in society.…”

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“…Meyen and Riesmeyer, 2011;Skovsgaard et al, 2013) and role conceptions by others (e.g. Tandoc et al, 2012;Van Dalen et al, 2012;Weaver andWilhoit, 1986, 1996;Weaver et al, 2007). For consistency, we refer to this concept as role conceptions, referring to roles as perceived by journalists themselves.…”

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“…The scale has been validated not only by the surveys conducted by Weaver and colleagues (1986Weaver and colleagues ( , 1996Weaver and colleagues ( , 2007 but also by other surveys of American journalists (e.g. Cassidy, 2006;Tandoc et al, 2012).…”

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“…However, journalists also differ in terms of specialization, and the prominence of these roles might differ across assignments (Weaver et al, 2007). For example, political reporters might be different from crime beat reporters in a number of characteristics (Tandoc et al, 2012), and environmental reporters might report environmental groups in a more positive way than reporters in other beats (McCluskey, 2008). Few studies have focused on the roles conceived by environmental journalists who face the challenging task of communicating about complex issues compounded by the constraint of decreasing space and time devoted to environmental issues in many traditional media (Detjen et al, 2000).…”

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Playing a crusader role or just playing by the rules? Role conceptions and role inconsistencies among environmental journalists

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2013

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Environmental journalists have historically struggled between journalistic objectivity and environmental advocacy. But the roles they embrace are based not only on their individual conceptions but also on their perceptions of what their organizations expect from them. Thus, journalistic role conceptions are the melding of individual and organizational role conceptions. These roles do not always correspond, especially for environmental journalists who must compete for space and attention with more sensational and more accessible political, crime or entertainment stories that organizations in search for profit might prioritize. This study finds that such role inconsistencies exist and are influenced by both individual and organizational factors.

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Journalistic Roles

Hanitzsch¹

2019

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies

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The notion of journalistic roles refers to the way journalists perceive, articulate, and enact generalized expectations as to how journalism is serving society, both in normative and descriptive terms. Journalistic roles are constructed in professional discourse, which is about journalism's identity and place in society. Journalists articulate and enact journalistic roles on four levels: Normative role orientations encompass generalized and aggregate expectations that journalists believe are deemed desirable in society, while cognitive role orientations comprise the institutional values, attitudes, and beliefs that journalists embrace as a result of their occupational socialization. Practiced role performance captures the roles that journalists enact in practice, and narrated role performance denominates journalists' subjective perceptions and articulations of these roles. The universe of journalistic roles can be mapped onto two analytically distinct but empirically related domains that are central to people's lives: the domain of politics and the domain of everyday life.

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Mind the Gap

Cited by 151 publications

References 18 publications

Journalistic Roles and the Struggle Over Institutional Identity: The Discursive Constitution of Journalism

Journalistic Roles and the Struggle Over Institutional Identity: The Discursive Constitution of Journalism

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