The Paradoxes of the Journalistic Profession

Høyer, Svennik; Lauk, Epp

doi:10.1515/nor-2017-0304

Cited by 14 publications

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“…Historically, this is embodied in descriptions of the journalist as an "ink-stained wretch", "muckraker", "hack", or "grubbie" (Conboy 2013, 5;Singer 2004;Underwood 2008, 19), and hints at tensions between being broadly respected as "professional", while bristling at the notion of journalism as "a profession" with all of the formality that implies (Singer 2003). Instead, journalists flaunt grittier aspects of their work to distinguish newswork as labouring in service to the public (Høyer and Lauk 2003;Ö rnebring 2010).…”

Section: Journalistic Identity and The "What-a-story"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Hero or Anti-Hero?

Eldridge

2016

Digital Journalism

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Exploring constructions of journalistic identity in a digital age has been a lively area of scholarship as the field of digital journalism studies has grown. Yet despite many approaches to understanding digital change, key avenues for understanding changing constructions of identity remain underexplored. This paper addresses a conceptual void in research literature by employing semiotic and semantic approaches to analyse performances of journalistic identity in narratives of newswork facilitated by and focused on digital megaleaks. It seeks to aid understanding of the way narratives describe changing practices of newsgathering, and how journalists position themselves within these hybrid traditional/digital stories. Findings show news narratives reinforce the primacy of journalists within traditional boundaries of a journalistic field, and articulate a preferred imagination of journalistic identity. Methodologically, this paper shows how semantic and semiotic approaches lend themselves to studying narratives of newswork within journalistic metadiscourses to understand journalistic identity at the nexus of traditional and digital dynamics. The resultant portrait of journalistic identity channels a sociohistoric, romantic notion of the journalist as "the shadowy figure always to be found on the edges of the century's great events", updated to accommodate modern, digital dynamics. KEYWORDS boundary work; journalistic field; journalistic identity; metadiscourse; Snowden; WikiLeaks adhering to a "blurred social status, a foggy range of skills, an ill-defined purpose and a ludicrously romantic haze where a professional code would normally be" (5). Fred Inglis describes this as an amalgamation of cynicism and ambition: A profession celebrated less for celebrity and more for a unique mixture of raffishness and glamour, drunkenness and the kind of knowledge usually classified as being on the inside, cynicism and the caustic freedoms it confers, recklessness, discretion, strange working hours, even stranger friends, courage and cowardice.

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Section: Journalistic Identity and The "What-a-story"mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Eldridge

2016

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“…Media education has been traditionally considered particularly important in the context of professionalization (e.g. Hoyer & Lauk, 2003). As mentioned at the beginning of this study, I believe that media education should not be separated from research.…”

Section: Academic Scholars and Scholarship In Cee Countriesmentioning

confidence: 86%

Revisiting National Journalism Cultures in Post-Communist Countries: The Influence of Academic Scholarship

Harro-Loit

2015

MaC

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The aim of this exploratory study is to develop the concept of the actor approach and journalism culture by adding a factor that has been more or less overlooked: academic scholarship. The paper also proposes to use the concept "discursive institutionalism" in order to clarify what knowledge and opinions about media are formed in the interaction of media institutions and academia with other institutions in society (e.g. educational, political and judicial). The concept "discursive institutionalism" includes the role of academia in providing new knowledge by conducting and disseminating research on the national and international levels, and this deserves greater attention. Although it is a common understanding that the role of academia is to prepare young professionals, it is less discussed how national media research and journalism education, in synergy, can create and maintain a collective understanding regarding the role and performance of national journalism in turbulent times. The paper is a meta-analysis of published research, and the empirical part of the study includes a close reading of academic articles, reports and conference presentations that are available in English about media in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. Examples of research from selected CEE countries provide a descriptive view of problems and tendencies concerning media performance in these countries. The proposed analytical approach aims to connect these problems and provide ideas for further research.

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“…Con ello, la publicidad y las ganancias se han conformado en elementos esenciales de la estructura económica de los medios en Estados Unidos, Europa y otros países, incluyendo a Puerto Rico. Este esquema ha impactado tanto las rutinas periodísticas como el producto informativo (Bagdikian, 1983;Hallin, 2000;Herman & Chomsky, 1988;Hoyer & Lauk 2003;McChesney, 2003;Shoemaker & Reese, 1996).…”

Section: Comercialización Y Contenido Emotivounclassified

Convergencia, emoción y crisis: los periodistas en Puerto Rico evalúan su campo en el siglo XXI

Lugo-Ortiz

2014

Comysoc

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Este ensayo explora cuáles son los principales retos que enfrenta el periodismo, según los periodistas en Puerto Rico. Mediante el método de la encuesta, identificaron la crisis económica y la entrada de Internet como los retos primarios del campo. Según ellos, éstos no solo inciden en la reestructuración y reducción de las salas de redacción, sino que llevan a una práctica que se distingue por la extrema inmediatez que, en muchas ocasiones, sacrifica la integridad del contenido de los medios.

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The Paradoxes of the Journalistic Profession

Cited by 14 publications

References 28 publications

Hero or Anti-Hero?

Hero or Anti-Hero?

Revisiting National Journalism Cultures in Post-Communist Countries: The Influence of Academic Scholarship

Convergencia, emoción y crisis: los periodistas en Puerto Rico evalúan su campo en el siglo XXI

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