JournalismPub Date : 2024-08-05DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272193
Meagan E. Doll
{"title":"New models, same practices? Examining professional values and peace journalism training","authors":"Meagan E. Doll","doi":"10.1177/14648849241272193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241272193","url":null,"abstract":"Existing work on peace journalism would suggest that some journalism cultures may be more receptive to—or perhaps already practice elements of—peace journalism. However, little research has documented, nor explored, perceptions of peace journalism when its practices are perceived as customary to situated professional environments. To better understand this phenomenon, this study examines how journalists ascribe value to peace journalism training, particularly when they were reportedly familiar with, or already practicing, peace journalism. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists from Uganda, South Sudan, and Kenya, findings suggest that values associated with attending peace journalism trainings at times transcend the ostensible goals of workshop organizers. These values include trainings as a means for building professional networks, improving general journalistic skills, and fulfilling social expectations. Understanding these professional values contextualizes the adaptation of peace journalism across contexts, with implications for journalism professionalization processes more broadly.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141938828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-31DOI: 10.1177/14648849241269300
Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Morten Skovsgaard, Claes de Vreese
{"title":"Reinforce, readjust, reclaim: How artificial intelligence impacts journalism’s professional claim","authors":"Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Morten Skovsgaard, Claes de Vreese","doi":"10.1177/14648849241269300","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241269300","url":null,"abstract":"Major advances in artificial intelligence have fuelled a rapid increase in the automation and augmentation of journalistic work, challenging the centrality of journalists in the news production process. This article theoretically explores news automation by adopting a system of professions framework from the sociology of professions to provide a holistic perspective on the impact of artificial intelligence on journalistic work. This framework posits that different factors influence professional control over work, and problems caused by these factors have left journalism vulnerable to automation. The routine and mundane nature of a significant portion of journalistic tasks suggests that artificial intelligence may potentially replace many journalists in the future, thereby challenging the profession’s claim to expertise. For journalism to uphold its professional authority in the future, it needs to brace for the impact of artificial intelligence. Building on this analysis, we explore strategies for journalism to do so. This involves reinforcing professional ideals in new algorithmic practices, readjusting knowledge and skill taught in education, and reclaiming specialised work practices in organisations. Rather than a threat, the emergence of artificial intelligence then presents an opportunity for journalism to reintroduce the distinctiveness of the profession and rejuvenate its professional promise.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"145 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141862769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1177/14648849241260196
Ingebjørg Sofie Larsen
{"title":"Getting emotional: Emotions and ‘journalistification’ in Norwegian music reviews, 1981–2022","authors":"Ingebjørg Sofie Larsen","doi":"10.1177/14648849241260196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241260196","url":null,"abstract":"Whether emotional experience should be part of a critic’s evaluation has been a central but contentious issue in the history of music criticism. In this article, I trace how music critics in Norway treat emotions through three stages from the historical transition from an ‘aesthetic’ to a more ‘journalistic’ paradigm of arts journalism. I analyse an archival dataset from the dailies ‘Aftenposten’, ‘Dagbladet’, ‘Bergens Tidende’ and ‘Arbeiderbladet’/’Dagsavisen’ in 1981, 2001 and 2022. The qualitative analysis reveals that, paradoxically, emotions became more prevalent and explicit at the same time as the ‘journalistic’ paradigm, which is characterised by the strategic ritual of objectivity, became more present in the reviews. I argue that the way the journalistic paradigm increasingly intersects with emotion in these reviews has theoretical implications for the study of arts journalism and the subgenre of music criticism, challenging the dichotomy between emotions and objectivity that exists in both journalism studies and the history of music criticism.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1177/14648849241265207
Birgit Røe Mathisen, Anders Graver Knudsen
{"title":"Extending the professional borders or maintaining the status quo? Union membership as boundary work","authors":"Birgit Røe Mathisen, Anders Graver Knudsen","doi":"10.1177/14648849241265207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241265207","url":null,"abstract":"Disruption and changes within the profession of journalism instigate boundary disputes. In this article, we analyse boundary work ‘in the making’, with the debate about membership rules within the Norwegian Union of Journalists as a case. The research question asked is: How do positioning and rhetoric in the membership debate evoke boundary struggles in journalism, and how do they reflect the internal professional hierarchy? Theoretically anchored in the sociology of professions, this study is based on qualitative text analysis of debate articles in the specialist magazines Journalisten and Medier24, as well as qualitative interviews. The findings suggest two main positions. On the one hand, a struggle to protect pure professional identity, values, and integrity. On the other, arguments regarding union power and impact and the contention that in today’s digital media landscape journalism in practice involves a wide range of competencies. The two positions suggest a tension between white-collar professionalism and blue-collar unionism. This study contributes to our understanding of the shifting boundaries of journalism, and how changes in external conditions also impact upon internal professional identity.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772774","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-24DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266722
Peter Maurer, Christian Nuernbergk
{"title":"No watchdogs on Twitter: Topics and frames in political journalists’ tweets about the coronavirus pandemic","authors":"Peter Maurer, Christian Nuernbergk","doi":"10.1177/14648849241266722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241266722","url":null,"abstract":"Social media channels, particularly Twitter/X, played a significant role as information platforms during the COVID-19 pandemic. As journalists are crucial actors on that platform, an analysis of the content and tone of their tweets during the pandemic can reveal the role they played in shaping public understanding of this public health crisis. Our analysis focuses on Germany where the government enforced relatively strict anti-COVID-19 measures and where strong opposition to these measures emerged outside the mainstream media. We analyzed almost 10.000 tweets of 247 journalists of mainstream media during a 14-month-period. To shed light on journalists’ watchdog versus collaborative role orientation, computational methods were used to extract themes and tone in their pandemic-related tweets. Furthermore, network analysis was utilized to identify influential actors in journalists’ interactions with experts and other users on Twitter. The findings revealed that journalists tweeted most about topics like the economy, protests, and Chancellor Merkel’s ability to implement a restrictive containment policy. As demonstrated by the network analysis, journalists frequently interacted with cabinet members and pro-government experts on Twitter during the pandemic. The analysis also revealed that some tweets were characterized by an anti-protest and anti-lockdown tone, but these came from different groups of journalists.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-22DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266724
Lai Fong Yang, Prasana Rosaline Fernandez, Linda Poh Gaik Tan
{"title":"A comparative study of multi-ethnic perspectives on aging in Malaysian newspapers","authors":"Lai Fong Yang, Prasana Rosaline Fernandez, Linda Poh Gaik Tan","doi":"10.1177/14648849241266724","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241266724","url":null,"abstract":"Media plays an important role in representing cultural beliefs about aging, and the influence of cultural and societal factors on the portrayal of aging is well documented. Malaysia, with its diverse demographics of different ethnicities, religions, and languages, provides a unique context for investigating how aging is represented. This study employed framing as the theoretical framework and qualitative content analysis as the research method to compare the portrayal of aging in Malaysian newspapers published in Malay, Chinese, and English. In addition, a popular online-only newspaper in the country was included in the analysis. The findings showed an emphasis on the well-being/welfare of older people in Malaysian newspapers; however, the discourse reflected elements of paternalism and ageism, with the voices of older adults having limited representation. The implications of these findings were discussed in relation to the media’s role in reporting the aging process.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"9 27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141772775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266754
M Olguta Vilceanu, Julia C Richmond
{"title":"Yeah, I’ve been immunized: Objectivity, ignorance, and privilege in media coverage of Aaron Rodgers’ COVID-19 vaccine refusal","authors":"M Olguta Vilceanu, Julia C Richmond","doi":"10.1177/14648849241266754","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241266754","url":null,"abstract":"During a team press conference in August 2021, then-Green Bay Packers Quarterback Aaron Rodgers claimed he had been ‘immunized,’ which implied he had taken a COVID-19 vaccine. He later admitted he was not vaccinated and sparked a debate in the news and popular media. This study builds on the epistemology of ignorance, science controversy, sports mythmaking, and fake news to explore news coverage of professional athletes, the COVID-19 pandemic, and vaccination. Thematic discourse analysis helped position the narratives built around Aaron Rodgers’ statements, attitudes, and behaviors on the continuum between vaccine hesitancy and discursive manipulation. The findings reveal evolving perspectives of social issues related to managing social responsibility of professional athletes and call for sharper interrogations of the dynamics of power, privilege, and agency among key opinion leaders at the intersection of sports, journalism, and society.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"160 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266679
Simone Benazzo
{"title":"Book review: Journalism in the grey zone: Pluralism and media capture in Lebanon and Tunisia","authors":"Simone Benazzo","doi":"10.1177/14648849241266679","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241266679","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266073
Gaia Peruzzi, Fabiana Battisti, Raffaele Lombardi
{"title":"Covering disability in Italian journalism. Language, practices and perspectives in mainstream and alternative media","authors":"Gaia Peruzzi, Fabiana Battisti, Raffaele Lombardi","doi":"10.1177/14648849241266073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241266073","url":null,"abstract":"Journalism has a key role in the social construction of diversity in the public sphere. The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between disability and journalism in Italy, a question largely unexplored hitherto. Following a review of the literature on disability-related journalism and ethics, we adopted the HOI (Hierarchy of Influences) model as a theoretical resource to enable a thorough investigation of the interplay between professionals and social, institutional and organisational systems. The research is based on 17 in-depth interviews with Italian journalists who have been covering disability for years, both in the mainstream and in alternative media. The analysis focused on their perceptions and experiences in daily newsmaking processes, reconstructing and relating the personal accounts they give as professionals to the working practices of newsrooms. We found that there are mutual influences at work, operating across individual, organisational and institutional levels and tending to force the issue of disability to the margins of journalistic activity. In a few relevant exceptions, there emerged a vindication of proactiveness on the part of professionals in the mainstream and alternative media. This suggests the emergence of a disability journalism culture, independent of editorial approach, to which the individuality of the journalist is central.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
JournalismPub Date : 2024-07-21DOI: 10.1177/14648849241266097
María Luengo, Teresa Gil-López
{"title":"Breaching BBC impartiality rules: Journalism identity, institutional networks and social media","authors":"María Luengo, Teresa Gil-López","doi":"10.1177/14648849241266097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241266097","url":null,"abstract":"Since implementing its latest impartiality guidelines in October 2021, the BBC has rebuked several of its news presenters for related violations. BBC journalists are required to adhere to these norms, so why are some expressing defiance? In light of the BBC’s vast global reach and reputation for journalistic impartiality, this article uses social network and discourse analysis to explore how contemporary journalism is challenging the norm of impartiality. Drawing upon network analysis of the Twitter accounts of BBC journalists and a qualitative content analysis of their Twitter feeds vis-à-vis BBC’s impartiality guidelines, this study examines the relationship between their positions and roles with their discourse on the news online network. Based on our findings, journalists’ roles have a significant impact on their use of discursive approaches and stances on the subject of impartiality when transitioning from a regimen of balance to a regimen of due impartiality.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":"121 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141740097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}