REPORT: The lack of diversity in UK’s media remains
In a report for the United Kingdom’s National Council for the Training of Journalists, Mark Spilsbury explores the reasons for why there is a lack of diversity within the British … Continued
Tag: journalistic identity
ARTICLE: The professional identity of journalists who work across media cultures
Growing media practitioner mobility, as well as the migration of transnational media corporations across borders and media cultures, gives rise to new questions about how journalistic professionalism travels, write Mei … Continued
ARTICLE: The hybridity in journalistic cultures
Most comparative research on media systems and journalistic cultures has focused on advanced democracies only. In a new study, researchers analyzed journalistic role performance doing a content analysis for a … Continued
ARTICLE: Communities in Israel making sense of extremist violence
How do cultural-level sense-making processes work in a highly conflictual case? Christian Baden and Yossi David, both of The Hebrew University Jerusalem, studied media coverage on Israeli president Reuven Rivlin’s … Continued
ARTICLE: Practices of mobile journalism at Hindustan Times
Mobile journalism practices have provided new skills to and have also been time-consuming for journalists, Indian reporters state in a new study. Anoop Kumar and M. Shuaib Mohamed Haneef, both … Continued
ARTICLE: News photographers are depicted as “sidekicks”
News discourse depicts photojournalists as mere “support staff” for reporters, write Mary Angela Bock, Kyser Lough and Deepa Fadnis, all of University of Texas at Austin. The authors used discourse … Continued
ARTICLE: Journalists’ self-branding on Twitter
Based on a quantitative content analysis, Ulrika Hedman, of University of Gothenburg, examines Swedish journalists’ Twitter account presentations. The focus of the analysis is on how the technological affordances of Twitter shape … Continued
ARTICLE: Institutional constraints cause varying forms of censorship towards critical journalism
Andrew Kennis of Universidad Iberoamericana, México, studied “whether institutional constraints are more powerful than standardized journalistic norms and practices in determining news content”, also looking at news media independence from … Continued
ARTICLE: Most Kenyan journalists enjoy a fair amount of journalistic autonomy
Most Kenyan journalists feel they have freedom to decide what to include in news. Kioko Ireri, of United States International University Africa, conducted a survey in 2012-2013 with 504 Kenyan … Continued
ARTICLE: From a journalist to an education advocate
A new article examines the resonances between a journalistic habitus and neoliberal logics. Leon A. Salter and Sean Phelan, both of Massey University, New Zealand, studied the case of Campbell … Continued