In their newly published study Corinna Lauerer, Thomas Hanitzsch and Folker Hanusch explore how journalists experience the lifestyle industries try to shape their daily work, and how these journalists deal with these influences. 89 Australian and German lifestyle journalists were interviewed and according to Lauerer, Hanitzsch and Hanusch journalists are in a constant struggle over the control of editorial content, and their responses to increasing commercial pressures vary between resistance and resignation.

The study is an online first publication of Journalism. Read the article here

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