Journalistic Roles

Hanitzsch, Thomas

doi:10.1002/9781118841570.iejs0029

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“…Journalistic roles refer "to the way journalists perceive, articulate, and enact generalized expectations as to how journalism is serving society, both in normative and descriptive terms", 14 while their remembering entails additional referential and evaluative dimension. 15 We therefore understand remembered journalistic roles as forms of 'present' personal perceptions and articulations of the roles that journalists performed in 'past' practice.…”

Section: Journalistic Roles In Socialist Yugoslaviamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, they are narrated as reinterpretations against, to paraphrase Hanitzsch (2019), what journalists should have done (normative role orientations), what they (cl)aimed they did (cognitive role orientations), what journalists actually did (practised role performance), and what they thought they did (narrated role performance). 16 Journalistic roles thus, as a "retrospective mechanism" (ibid. ), become a more complex reflection of changes in norms and ideals as well as journalistic practices and (self-)perceptions.…”

Section: Journalistic Roles In Socialist Yugoslaviamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Remembering Tanjug

Vobič

Milić

Milojević

2022

PNZ

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Historically, the role of journalism in society is bound to the prevailing conceptualization of the freedom of the press, specific societal, institutional, and material conditions of news production. This study explores self-perceptions of journalists working in the period of socialist Yugoslavia and synthetizes their recollections of journalistic orientations and performances with respect to journalism’s place in society. The study is based on the oral history interviews with former journalists, who worked also as editors and foreign correspondents from late 1950s to 1990s at the news agency Tanjug, which was considered the information backbone of the federal media system in Yugoslavia and had considerable international relevance. By combining ‘journalistic roles’ studies as well as ‘occupational life history’ research this historical study makes twofold contribution. First, it identifies adaptive strategies of remembering used by the interviewed journalists to legitimize themselves as professionals and relevant interpreters of SFRY journalism. Second, it reveals more nuances within common, often simplified understandings of journalists as collaborators with power during socialism, and highlights roles of privileged disseminator, monitoring analyst, and educator as specific manifestations of collaborative function of journalism.

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Section: Journalistic Roles In Socialist Yugoslaviamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Journalistic Roles In Socialist Yugoslaviamentioning

confidence: 99%

Remembering Tanjug

Vobič

Milić

Milojević

2022

PNZ

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“…Second, a significant proportion of (political) journalists believe that it is important to express their own points of view and to influence decision-making processes (e.g. Hanitzsch et al, 2019; Weischenberg et al, 2006: 284–285). In this context, the way politicians are portrayed visually can help achieve the desired impact.…”

Section: Visual Portrayal Of Politicians In the Mediamentioning

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Is there a visual bias in televised debates? Evidence from Germany, 2002–2017

Maier

Glogger

Otto

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Visual Communication

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Media professionals make use of various production techniques in the visual portrayal of politicians on television. A large body of literature indicates that these techniques exert varying influence on, for example, the evaluation of these actors, leading to the question of whether politicians are depicted in an equal way. Focusing on televised debates, this content analysis of five German debates aims to determine if there is a visual bias in the portrayal of candidates, depending on party affiliation, gender and role. Among other forms of bias, the authors find a difference in the use of camera movements and angle depending on the candidate’s gender and party affiliation.

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“…Journalism's roles involve socially negotiated expectations and studying them is the best way to understand journalism's identity and its place in society (Hanitzsch, 2017). These roles exist as a discursive framework of meaning that is subject to "(re)creation, (re)interpretation, appropriation, and contestation" (Hanitzsch, 2017, p. 1) (Hanitzsch, 2019). These ideas surrounding what journalism should be serve as professional resources that allow us to understand what journalism is (Eide, 2017a).…”

Section: Democracy and Journalistic Rolesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role

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This project makes the case that a new humanistic role should exist alongside the previously established monitorial, facilitative, radical, and collaborative journalistic roles outlined by Christians et al. (2009). Normative theory typically concerns itself with "hard" news when addressing the relationship between journalism and democracy, but through the application of Deweyan political philosophy it becomes possible to see how purportedly "soft" news, such as cultural journalism, also performs an important normative role. This blind spot can be partially traced to the complicated history between journalism studies and the humanities, resulting in the current landscape where cultural journalism is largely absent from scholarship within journalism ethics. Through analyzing both industry metacoverage and public-facing metajournalistic discourse it is clear that there is something important already regularly occurring within cultural journalism (such as literary journalism or arts criticism) that previous normative frameworks have failed to capture. The humanistic role is important to democracy in a similar manner to that of informal civic groups that help citizens learn how to form identities and nurture empathy for one another. Humanistic journalism may only be indirectly related to politics, but it serves to illuminate possibilities for how to live the good life within a particular community. Journalism's humanistic role contains unique motivations, norms, and practices that demonstrate why some "soft" news is not beyond democracy but vital to it.

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Journalistic Roles

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Remembering Tanjug

Remembering Tanjug

Is there a visual bias in televised debates? Evidence from Germany, 2002–2017

Democracy beyond hard news: cultural journalism and the humanistic role

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