The Social and Intellectual Contexts of the U.S. “Newsroom Studies,” and the Media Sociology of Today

Stonbely, Sarah

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2013.859865

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“…Unlike other collaborative journalism definitions, which are primarily oriented towards collaborations between media organisations (Konieczna, 2020; Stonbely, 2017), this approach recognizes that in the changing field of journalism, individual journalists adopt an entrepreneurial role as they test and establish innovative ways of practicing journalism (Heft and Dogruel, 2019; Carlson and Usher, 2016). Alfter’s (2019) definition focuses on forms of collaborative sharing and co-creation between partners for common ends that go beyond mere cooperation, such as exchange agreements made to suit individual objectives.…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-bordering journalism: How intermediaries of change drive the adoption of new practices

Heft

Baack

2021

Journalism

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This article examines the adoption of cross-border collaboration practices by introducing the concept of ‘intermediaries of change’: individual journalists who drive the adoption and gradual normalisation of pioneering cross-border practices. We ask how they implement cross-border practices, integrate them into existing working routines, and how this influences their working conditions using a case study on Europe’s Far Right, a network of seven newspapers that investigated far-right parties ahead of the European Parliament election 2019. We found that the network expanded journalists’ research capacity and entails a ‘domino effect’ since journalists gain experience and establish cross-national ties, which enable them to better establish follow-up collaborations. While this might help to normalize cross-border practices, organisational structures and contexts of transnational journalism shape the degree of participation by different network members. Moreover, we found that cross-border collaborations might foster precarious working conditions and competition.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-bordering journalism: How intermediaries of change drive the adoption of new practices

Heft

Baack

2021

Journalism

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“…The routines of newswork were understood as being embedded in an institutionalized beat system, which provides a continuous flow of news events from sources of high credibility-relatively unproblematic facts and credible accounts (Ettema & Glasser, 1987, p. 341;Fishman, 1980;Tuchman, 1973). Several scholars have problematized the role of organization and routines in explaining the distinctive epistemologies of daily news reporting (Cottle, 2000;Stonbely, 2015).…”

Section: Shifting Contexts Of Justificationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Epistemology and Journalism

Ekström¹,

Westlund²

2019

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication

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Epistemology is a central issue in journalism research. Journalism is among the most influential knowledge-producing institutions in modern society, associated with high claims of providing relevant, accurate, and verified public knowledge on a daily basis. More specifically, epistemology is the study of how, in this case, journalists and news organizations know what they know and how the knowledge claims are articulated and justified. Practices related to justification have been studied in (a) text and discourse; (b) journalist practices, norms, and routines within and outside the newsroom; and (c) audience assessment of news items and acceptance or rejection of the knowledge claims of journalism. Epistemology also includes the study of news and journalism as particular forms of knowledge. In journalism research, sociological approaches on epistemology have been developed to understand the institutionalized norms and practices in the processing of information and in socially shared and variable standards of justification, as well as in the authority of journalism in providing exclusive forms of knowledge in society. In recent years, epistemology has received increased scholarly interest in response to transformations within journalism: digitalization, emerging forms of data journalism, the acceleration of the news cycle, diminished human resources and financial pressure, and forms of audience participation.

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“…Tuchman (1972), Fishman (1980), and others have found that the generation of news (as opposed to the events that make up the news) does not reflect any kind of one-for-one correspondence with these events, but is also strongly influenced by the norms, routines, incentives, and expectations of the news production process itself and its needs. Though this theory has been criticized as overly deterministic (Coddington, 2014;Cottle, 2000;Stonbely, 2015), it still emerged as broadly consistent with how these journalists described their self-concepts and their activities. Regardless of what they did, all subjects were continually and consciously aware of their role in the news production process.…”

Section: The Professional Nature Of Newswork and The Journalistic Careermentioning

confidence: 84%

“…Some early investigators, such as Tuchman (1972) and Fishman (1980) have stated, or at least implied, that this system exercises such control over what topics merit journalistic attention, how they will be reported, what will be treated as a legitimate source, how facts will be verified or falsehoods rejected, and how the finished editorial product emerges from these, as to suggest that what news is constituted from the processes that created it. Later studies (Cottle, 1995;Cottle, 2000;Stonbely 2015) criticized this earlier work for focusing solely on organizational constraints while treating actions by individual reporters or editors, or larger cultural forces, as mere noise.…”

Section: Influence Of Newsroom Culturementioning

confidence: 99%

How Journalists Establish Trust In Numbers And Statistics: Results From An Exploratory Study

Witsen

2018

Iowa State Summer Symposium on Science Communication

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Statistics are an essential part of science communication, yet there is little theory about how journalists decide which numbers to trust. Interviews with working journalists showed that many believe statistics are so real as to be unchallengeable. Journalists are more likely to be aware of the trust problem when they have experience with a particular statistic and know its construction. Overall, they tend to follow accepted statistical conventions observed by their beats in determining which numbers to use. This follows theories of trust in news sources and the cultural belief in the transparency of measured reality in general.

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The Social and Intellectual Contexts of the U.S. “Newsroom Studies,” and the Media Sociology of Today

Cited by 22 publications

References 29 publications

Cross-bordering journalism: How intermediaries of change drive the adoption of new practices

Cross-bordering journalism: How intermediaries of change drive the adoption of new practices

Epistemology and Journalism

How Journalists Establish Trust In Numbers And Statistics: Results From An Exploratory Study

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