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The study “The blurring line between freelance journalists and self-employed media workers” by Beate Josephi and Penny O’Donnell from University of Sydney explores the ways in which freelance journalists navigated their employment in the Covid-affected 2020. Freelancers are outside the normal confines of journalism, but recently, the perception of freelancers has begun to shift. Namely, … Continued

Tags: Australia, Covid-19, freelancers, journalistic identity, journalistic profession, journalistic work
Published: 21 Jun 2022

Maintaining journalistic identity with major mistakes

The study “The “major mea culpa:” Journalistic Discursive Techniques When Professional Norms are Broken” by Erica Salkin and Kevin Grieves from Whitworth University looked at how media organizations talk about their significant errors – errors that cannot be brushed aside simply by posting a correction. Journalism lacks a formal certification process like the one in … Continued

Tags: apology, authority, credibility, journalistic discourse, journalistic identity, mistakes, retraction, United States
Published: 6 Jun 2022

Ethnography of diaspora journalism

The study “Examining Diaspora Journalists’ Digital Networks and Role Perceptions: A Case Study of Syrian Post-Conflict Advocacy Journalism” by Rana Arafat from City University of London sought to understand how diaspora journalists maintain their connections to the homeland and how they advocate for human rights and political reforms from afar. Previous research on diaspora journalism … Continued

Tags: constructive journalism, diaspora, ethnography, journalistic identity, journalists networks, Syria
Published: 1 Dec 2021

Turnover and turnaway intention among South Korean journalists

The study “Factors Affecting Turnover and Turnaway Intention of Journalists in South Korea” by Haeyeop Song from Kunsan National University, Gunsan, Korea, and Jaemin Jung from KAIST, Daejeon, Korea applied the framework of Push-Pull-Mooring to study the factors affecting turnover and turnaway intention among South Korean newspaper journalists. Push-Pull-Mooring (PPM) is the dominant paradigm in … Continued

Tags: job turnaway, job turnover, journalism organizations, journalistic identity, journalistic profession, newspaper journalism, push-pull-mooring, South Korea
Published: 19 Oct 2021

Investigative journalism as relational skills and epistemic resources

New study “Inventive Factfinders: Investigative Journalism as Professional Self-representation, Marker of Identity and Boundary Work” by Fredrik Bjerknes of University of Bergen is situated in the context of the annual Norwegian investigative journalism award (SKUP). Qualitative textual analysis of 44 method reports submitted to SKUP in 2018 were investigated for the study. In it, the … Continued

Tags: investigative journalism, journalistic identity, journalistic practice, journalistic profession, Norway
Published: 25 Feb 2021

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Ghanaian female journalists’ work-life balance

New article “Multiskilled in Many Ways: Ghanaian Female Journalists Between Job and Home” by Kodwo Jonas Anson Boateng of University of Jyväskylä and Epp Lauk Vytautas Magnus University Kaunas investigates the challenges Ghanaian female journalists face when combining their work and family life, with gendered expectations for caregiver role. Unstructured in-depth interviews of 23 female … Continued

Tags: gender, Ghana, journalistic identity, journalistic profession
Published: 7 Jan 2021

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Training innovators for a conservative sector

New study by Marcel Broersma of the University of Groningen and Jane Singer of City University of London describes how young journalists perceive their role and journalistic innovation and entrepreunial journalism in the quite conservative news business. Among journalists, there is a strong commitment to being a change agent, and utilizing innovation and new technology. … Continued

Tags: journalistic identity, journalistic profession, media innovation, netherlands, United Kingdom
Published: 4 Nov 2020

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Chavismo and self-censorship

In their new study, Paromita Pain and Ezequiel Korin, of the University of Nevada, studied how self-censorship has become the internalized norm for journalists starting from 1998 under the rule of Hugo Chavez, and his ideology Chavismo. The literature review shows how self-censorship exists as a continuum, ranging from explicit restrictions in authoritarian regimes to … Continued

Tags: censorship, freedom of speech, journalistic identity, journalistic norms, journalistic profession, Venezuela
Published: 21 Oct 2020

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Obsessive-activist reporting as a new model of journalism

In a new study, Avshalom Ginosar of Academic College Yezreel Valley, and Zvi Reich of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, describe existing archetypes of journalists and present a new candidate: the “obsessive-activist journalist”. Following a review of literature on journalism models and role perceptions, the researchers findings are based on interviews of 17 Israeli … Continued

Tags: Israel, journalistic identity, journalistic profession
Published: 13 Oct 2020