The Networked Freelancer?

Hayes, Kathryn J; Silke, Henry

doi:10.1080/21670811.2018.1505438

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The collapse of traditional profit models reliant on subscription funds is an issue pervasive at all levels of news organizations (Braun & Eklund, 2019; Konieczna, 2018; Singer, 2010). The shift to freelancing that is a direct consequence of this economic collapse is felt by journalists of every beat (Hayes & Silke, 2019; Oleshko & Mukhina, 2022; Singer, 2010), and journalists who freelance are required to put in auxiliary labor with less pay regardless of their beat (Hayes & Silke, 2018). What makes science journalism stand out, however, is that its need for specialization has made the impact of these effects more acute.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A View From the Trenches: Interviews With Journalists About Reporting Science News

Anderson

Dudo

2023

Science Communication

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In the United States and many other large media markets, science journalism has experienced major structural shifts that have resulted in the profession largely being conducted by nonspecialists and freelancers who cope with an abundance of misinformation and a loss of public confidence. In this qualitative work, we present the results of in-depth interviews with science journalists to understand current struggles and motivations for producing science news. Despite structural challenges and occupational burnout, journalists are motivated to produce science news for their perceived social benefits. However, many of the ways they are left to cope with these issues are personal strategies (e.g., resilience) that are unsustainable and ignore systemic inequities.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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A View From the Trenches: Interviews With Journalists About Reporting Science News

Anderson

Dudo

2023

Science Communication

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“…En 2005, España registraba un 11,5% de informadores empleados por cuenta propia, mientras que en 2020 la proporción de periodistas autónomos se situaba en el 31% (Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, 2005; Asociación de la Prensa de Madrid, 2020 (Gómez Patiño, 2018), una evolución que ha resultado similar en otros países. Muestra de ello es que, en los Países Bajos, el periodismo freelance "es, cada vez más, la norma" (Vandenberghe y d'Haenens, 2021); en el Reino Unido, un 35% de los periodistas se autodenomina como freelance (Spilsbury 2016;Hayes and Silke 2018); y en Canadá, la cifra ha crecido desde el 5% en 1996 hasta el 17% en 2019 (Wilkinson, 2019;Bertuzzi, 2020). Ante esta situación, la literatura científica ha intentado desgranar los elementos que dan forma a esta modalidad de empleo, resolviendo que se caracteriza, principalmente, por una tensión entre autonomía y precariedad (Cohen, 2012;Mathisen, 2017;Das, 2007;Gollmitzer, 2018, p. 12).…”

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Retos de la investigación sobre periodismo freelance: una revisión bibliográfica

Sanchiz

Valero-Pastor

2022

Doxa Comunicación

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El periodismo freelance es una modalidad laboral en la que el profesional empleado por cuenta propia ofrece sus servicios a distintos clientes sin un compromiso a largo plazo. En un contexto de turbulencias económicas, las empresas periodísticas utilizan esta modalidad de empleo para flexibilizar sus plantillas y reducir los presupuestos. En consecuencia, ha experimentado un gran crecimiento en las dos últimas décadas. Atendiendo a esta expansión, el objetivo de la presente investigación es agrupar el conocimiento que la literatura científica ha generado en torno a esta alternativa de empleo. Para ello, se emplea una revisión bibliográfica sistematizada (n=58). Los resultados revelan que el periodismo freelance es una profesión heterogénea, aunque predominan las mujeres, y que este colectivo mayoritario se enfrenta a dificultades relacionadas con la conciliación de la vida personal y profesional. Además, se evidencia un predominio de las condiciones laborales insatisfactorias en diversos mercados del mundo, aunque las estrategias de autogestión fomentan una mayor satisfacción. Este artículo de investigación establece un estado de la cuestión sobre las características, las condiciones laborales y las estrategias de autogestión de los profesionales, además de ofrecer futuras líneas de investigación que permitirían incrementar el conocimiento teórico-práctico sobre el periodismo freelance.

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“…For digital news outlets, the shift to outside contributors is largely the result of resource constraints—layoffs push news producers into less secure work positions, such as freelancing, as news revenue continues to decline (Cohen et al, 2019). For professional journalists, freelancing has become the major form of news production work in some places (Hayes and Silke, 2018). Because freelancing relies heavily on individuals pitching news pieces to editors, this shift also represents an increased responsibility for contributors to decide what topics to cover, and for which news outlets (Rosenkranz, 2018).…”

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Writer movements between news outlets reflect political polarization in media

Hagar

Wachs

Horvát

2021

New Media & Society

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Digital news outlets rely on a variety of outside contributors, from freelance journalists, to political commentators, to executives and politicians. These external dependencies create a network among news outlets, traced along the contributors they share. Using connections between outlets, we demonstrate how contributors’ publishing trajectories tend to align with outlet political leanings. We also show how polarized clustering of outlets translates to differences in the topics of news covered and the style and tone of articles published. In addition, we demonstrate how contributors who cross partisan divides tend to focus on less explicitly political topics. This work addresses an important gap in the media polarization literature, by highlighting how structural factors on the production side of news media create an ecosystem shaped by political leanings, independent of the priorities of any one person or organization.

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The Networked Freelancer?

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

A View From the Trenches: Interviews With Journalists About Reporting Science News

A View From the Trenches: Interviews With Journalists About Reporting Science News

Retos de la investigación sobre periodismo freelance: una revisión bibliográfica

Writer movements between news outlets reflect political polarization in media

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