It has been argued that the future of journalism resides within a global media ethics. Accordingly, journalism must renew itself by becoming less parochial and connect "citizens of the world" to a ..."global public sphere". In drawing upon a panel study with Swedish journalists, this paper shows that journalists do not define their everyday work according to the principles of global journalism. Most of them do, however, agree with such principles in normative visions of their profession. The paper furthermore illustrates the importance of taking into account various positions in the journalistic field when trying to identify global journalism. A small minority producing "hard news" for media organizations with national or international reach comes somewhat close to embodying the ideals of global journalism. For most journalists, however, everyday work consists of covering domestic issues for domestic audiences. As such, the study pinpoints a domestically biased doxa in the field of journalism that is unlikely to be overthrown in the near future.
Despite the vast volume of Eminescu's journalistic work, this field has only been either approached tangentially or neglected altogether by specialists in Eminescau studies. Specialists have ...displayed various and occasionally thorough attempts to produce glossaries, failing however to exhaust the thematic and expression-related potential of the journalist's works. This article provides an overview of the main endeavours of editing Eminescu's journalistic works as well as its reception directions by emphasizing, wherever the case, possible shortcomings in the editing process or misinterpretations that marked the journalist's work.
Mobile/sedentary Jarlbrink, Johan
Media history,
07/2015, Letnik:
21, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
This article examines the changing journalistic norms and roles in terms of mobile and sedentary news work at the end of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The analysis draws on the research ...into the small everyday tools of bureaucracy and science. The focus is on the quill, the scissors and paste pot, the body of the reporter and the computer. Journalistic neutrality and truth seem at any given time to be defined in line with the practices made possible by the available tools. A change in tools makes new practices possible, meaning that the norms have to be redefined. Journalism was once synonymous with mobile reporters reporting on events they themselves witnessed. Journalism today, however, is often sedentary copy-and-paste work, much resembling the scissors-and-paste journalism of the nineteenth century. Comparison reveals that such transmission of texts and images produced by someone else always runs the risk of reproducing the voices of the elites.
This article examines the practices of constructing gender in the media by elaborating on one specific journalistic work process: the cover photography of the Finnish Prime Minister for a weekly news ...magazine. We draw from gender theory and Goffman's concept of social performance
in asking how gender is constructed in journalistic work. Women leaders must both prove their capability as politicians and manifest their femininity. Our case study explicates how this double discourse emerges in the photographic studio and how journalists struggle with two parallel scripts
they try to follow: one of journalistic neutrality, and another of feminine beauty. The metaphor of two scripts follows Goffman's idea of social performance with actors performing frontstage and backstage roles. Our ethnographic account shows that journalistic work processes can be ambiguous.
We argue that gendered media discourses affect journalistic work in ways not visible in media representations. Thus, to understand these mechanisms, a more ethnographic approach is needed in media research.
This article presents a comparative historical analysis of the relationship between journalism as institution (i.e., a particular set of organizations in society) and journalism as work (i.e., an ...activity practiced by individuals) in four European countries: Britain, Sweden, Germany, and Estonia. The analysis compares the institutional context of journalistic work in these four countries around 1860, focusing in particular on the organization of journalistic labor at the national newspaper of record. The historical comparison reveals how exceptional the British case is. The study finds that British journalism circa 1860 exhibited a high division of labor, high labor specialization, and was increasingly focused on news gathering and production. Swedish and German journalism exhibited an emerging division of labor and labor specialization, and was focused on political debate (rather than news gathering and production). Estonian journalism exhibited hardly any division of labor or labor specialization, and was focused on raising national awareness.
Newsworkers rnebring, Henrik
2017, 2016-05-05, 2016
eBook, Book
The last decade has seen a transformation of the journalism industry. This book compares a range of European countries, looking at how journalistic work has been affected by the changes to journalism ...institutions. Drawing on extensive new research, it provides unique insights into current journalistic practice.
Multiskilling in a journalism context is not a case of “de-skilling” as the profession. There are problems concerning related to the quality in newsrooms adapting that are adapting multiskilling ...strategies, but in general multiskilling is more correctly to defined as a re-skilling or an up-skilling. This is thea conclusion from result from a survey to of 1,500 journalists in Poland, Russia and Sweden and interviews with 60 journalists in these three countries. Multiskilling in journalism gives more space room for creativity and more power to the individual journalist, according to those with experience of working as multi-reporters. It allows them more freedom to make their own decisions in their daily tasks, i.e. choosing subjects and stories. At the same time, from the perspective of the media company, multiskilling is a strategy to increase production in the newsrooms. Multiskilling is also changing the journalistic culture, putting more focus on production and adapting content for different channels.
For any fan of science and technology, the New York World’s Fair of 1964–65 was an irresistible destination, an ode to progress despite the 1960s’ specter of atomic Armageddon. Sprawling across 2.6 ...square miles in Flushing Meadows, New York, the fair’s exhibits offered an exciting vision of progress for the 51 million visitors who passed through its gates; computers, modernistic automobiles, and telecommunications were all featured prominently. NASA and the Pentagon exhibited actual rockets in the Space Park. Rides offered park visitors the chance to glimpse concepts of a future of “Peace through Understanding,” the fair’s theme.
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