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Zusammenfassung: Um die zahlreichen Aspekte journalistischer Qualität angemessen erfassen zu können, ist es sinnvoll, die verschiedenen theoretischen Herangehensweisen in einem umfassenden Konzept zu integrieren. In diesem Beitrag werden grundlegende Qualitätskriterien zunächst auf einer funktionalen-systemorientierten Ebene bestimmt. Grundlage sind dabei Funktion und Leitcode des Journalismus, die sich in einem historischen Prozess in der gegenseitigen Beobachtung von Anbietern und Abnehmern öffentlicher Kommunikation entwickelt haben. Auf einer normativ-demokratieorientierten Ebene lassen sich Qualitätskriterien aus gesellschaftlichen und mitmenschlichen Werten ableiten, die in diversen Regulierungen kodifiziert werden. Allerdings spielen hier auch die speziellen Anforderungen des politischen Systems eine Rolle. Weiter ist auf einer publikumsbezogenen-handlungsorientierten Ebene von Bedeutung, dass Verbindungen mit der Lebenswelt des Publikums hergestellt werden und journalistische Angebote nützlich und anwendbar sind.Schlüsselwörter: Qualität im Journalismus · Theorieintegration · Journalismustheorie · Systemtheorie · Demokratietheorie · Nutzungstheorie Quality in journalism - an integrative concept Abstract: To determine the various performance criteria concerning journalism it is reasonable to develop a broad concept, which integrates the different theoretical approaches. In a functional and system-oriented perspective, fundamental performance criteria can be based on the social function and the specific code of journalism, which emerged in an historical process of mutual observation of journalists and audiences. In a normative-democratic perspective, performance criteria can be derived from societal and human values codified in diverse regulations. However, in this regard it has to be taken into account that specific claims of the political subsystem also play an important role. Finally from an audience and action oriented viewpoint, it is important to keep in mind that journalistic communication must be useful and applicable in the world the audience lives in.
Abstract:The paper intends to investigate current university degree programs in numerous European countries and compare them with offerings in the United States with regard to their suitability to contemporary workplace requirements in the age of convergence. Recent trends in convergence, defined as the merging and growing together of previously distinct industrial branches, professions, devices and skills (Jenkins, 2008) have changed and dramatically transformed the ways people communicate as well as interact with each another. As a consequence, academic and professional representatives are asked to respond to these far-reaching alterations in varying ways.By use of an extensive content analysis, our study intends to analyze to which degree universities in Europe and the United States have started to already offer adequate programs on different educational levels (Bachelor, Master and PhD) in an attempt to provide the kind of media education needed today and in the future. The paper takes a closer look at educational trainings and degree programs offered by post-secondary institutions throughout the world, scrutinizing whether convergence and related terms such as multimedia and cross-media have already managed to gain an (academic) foothold yet.
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