The Space of Journalistic Work: A Theoretical Model

Örnebring, Henrik; Karlsson, Michael; Fast, Karin; Lindell, Johan

doi:10.1093/ct/qty006

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“…This seems at odds with the idea that journalists’ autonomy is a prerequisite for quality journalism (for a review, see Deuze 2005). Such contiguity between journalists and editors has usually been deemed to lie outside the idea of journalistic doxa (Örnebring et al 2018). In certain circumstances, however, the contiguity may constitute valuable capital that journalists can spend in terms of autonomy and career.…”

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“…As the journalistic labor market is undergoing tumultuous change, and the level of burnout within journalism is increasing (Reinardy 2011), it is important to assess journalists’ daily working conditions (O’Donnell et al 2016). Indeed, journalists “are not equal in terms of status, influence, work tasks, and working conditions” (Örnebring et al 2018: 2–3), and they are engaged in a job characterized by shifting work tasks and work roles, in which dropping or rising in status is the norm, rather than the exception (Örnebring et al 2018).…”

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“…Salary and rank are intimately related to employees’ career development. Accordingly, by analyzing them, we can address a crucial dimension of journalistic work that Örnebring and colleagues (2018) define as “material security” (p. 2). This refers to how much the practitioner is paid for his/her work (i.e., salary) and to the working relationship between the journalist and the employer.…”

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Journalists and Editors: Political Proximity as Determinant of Career and Autonomy

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The International Journal of Press/Politics

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Political economy suggests that media owners try to influence the process of media production by providing career incentives to like-minded journalists and adjusting the level of professional autonomy granted to them. Accordingly, we analyze whether the political distance between editors and journalists (i.e., reporters) affects the careers of journalists in terms of rank and salary, as well as their perceived professional autonomy. We hypothesize that editors reward and allow freedom to journalists whose political viewpoints coincide more precisely with their own. Political proximity to editors should lead to a better salary and rank for reporters and to a stronger perception of editorial autonomy among reporters. We tested our hypotheses through statistical analysis using data from the Worlds of Journalism Study. We analyzed the answers of 3,087 journalists interviewed between 2012 and 2016 in six European countries: Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and the United Kingdom. The results support our hypotheses. The analysis reveals a polarization of media outlet editors, and robust results were achieved via a measure of political proximity that takes into account the particular influence of left-leaning and right-leaning editors. Such partisan leaning, however, seems less relevant in countries belonging to Hallin and Mancini’s Atlantic model.

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Journalists and Editors: Political Proximity as Determinant of Career and Autonomy

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“…Our study thus seeks to elicit such responses across three Western media systems: Australia, Germany, and the UK. Moreover, journalistic work can be conceptualised as a stratified space along three dimensions: material security, possession of journalistic capital-that is status and recognition from other journalists-and access to resources (Örnebring, Karlsson, Fast, & Lindell, 2018). We thus aimed at including outlets and actors with varying possession of these resources.…”

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Working on the Margins: Comparative Perspectives on the Roles and Motivations of Peripheral Actors in Journalism

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Maares

Hanusch

2019

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As a consequence of digitization and other environmental trends, journalism is changing its forms and arguably also its functions—both in fundamental ways. While ‘legacy’ news media continue to be easily distinguishable by set characteristics, new content providers operating in an increasingly dense, chaotic, interactive, and participatory information environment still remain somewhat understudied. However, at a time when non-traditional formats account for an ever-growing portion of journalistic or para-journalistic work, there is an urgent need to better understand these new peripheral actors and the ways they may be transforming the journalistic field. While journalism scholarship has begun to examine peripheral actors’ motivations and conceptualizations of their roles, our understanding is still fairly limited. This relates particularly to comparative studies of peripheral actors, of which there have been very few, despite peripheral journalism being a global phenomenon. This study aims to address this gap by presenting evidence from 18 in-depth interviews with journalists in Australia, Germany, and the UK. In particular, it examines how novel journalistic actors working for a range of organisations discursively contrast their work from that of others. The findings indicate that journalists’ motivations to engage in journalism in spite of the rise of precarious labour were profoundly altruistic: Indeed, journalists pledged allegiance to an ideology of journalism still rooted in a pre-crisis era—one which sees journalism as serving a public good by providing an interpretative, sense-making role.

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“…This Special Issue tackles the important challenge of engaging with and advancing theoretical and conceptual debates on current and future direction of journalism and communication studies in a rapidly changing media landscape. As the global digital ecosystem reconfigures empirical realities in media and communication (Carlson & Lewis, 2015; Örnebring et al, 2018; van Dijck, 2013; Zelizer, 2004), established analytical frameworks for media production and professional practice, as well as for media circulation and representation, cannot be taken for granted anymore. In fact, changes in media landscapes associated with globalization and digitization demand new conceptual frameworks and call for reflexive understandings of what changes and what persists in professional practice, media industries, and journalistic cultures more widely.…”

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Advancing Journalism and Communication Research: New Concepts, Theories, and Pathways

Mellado¹,

Georgiou²,

Nah³

2020

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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The Space of Journalistic Work: A Theoretical Model

Cited by 24 publications

References 43 publications

Journalists and Editors: Political Proximity as Determinant of Career and Autonomy

Journalists and Editors: Political Proximity as Determinant of Career and Autonomy

Working on the Margins: Comparative Perspectives on the Roles and Motivations of Peripheral Actors in Journalism

Advancing Journalism and Communication Research: New Concepts, Theories, and Pathways

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