Organization Culture, Online Journalism, and Media Independence: The Case of Tempo Newsroom

This article will describe the adoption process of digital technology and media in an Indonesian established media group. The tempo is one of the leading media in Indonesia which is known for its independence and strongly emphasize on balance reporting. When current media technology enables many parties to interact and response to each other in mass media, Tempo's independence is tested. We seek to explain how this independence that became the mosts precious cultural value for the media has nowadays been tested by online trends in journalism. We conducted qualitative research by participating in several activities in the newsroom and conducting in-depth interviews, and noticed that changes in organizational culture had occurred in Tempo media groups. It is found that while independency is there, the interactivity and interconnectedness between the press, journalists, and reporters in the newsroom and the readers, audince, and other consumers have shaped a new configuration of organizational culture. We examine that independence as an established value in Tempo becomes more dynamic. Some facilities that allow public interactivity, the speed at which news is broadcast, and the hope that a news post will be viral, make editorials increasingly difficult to limit themselves to external influences.