The Structural Transformation of The Democratic Corporatist Model: The Case of Finland

Herkman, Juha

doi:10.1080/13183222.2009.11009015

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“…However, the detached, neutral way of reporting is by no means secure. With the advancing professionalisation of political communication (Herkman 2009), the increasing importance of the EU, and the rise of populism, seen in the success of the Finns Party, politics has changed. In journalism, increasing redundancies and the merging of news desks have also affected political journalism in recent years, with the growth of online political journalism adding to stress among practitioners.…”

Section: Three Generations Of Finnish Political Journalists: High Modmentioning

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More of the Same or a Different Breed Altogether?: A National Comparison of Role Perceptions and Ethical Stances among Finnish Political Journalists

Väliverronen

2018

Nordicom Review

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To date, specialised sub-groups of journalists have received little attention in comparative studies of the professional values of journalists. To shed new light on the situation in Finland, this article explores the role perceptions and ethical stances of an elite group of reporters – political journalists – in comparison with other Finnish journalists. A statistical analysis of two surveys from the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS) project is undertaken, indicating that political journalists stand out from others by endorsing the role of analytical independent watchdogs and by maintaining more distance to audiences and commercialism. Ethically, they are more cautious than other journalists in using controversial reporting practices. These attributes should stem from the demands of political journalism and the high status of this form of journalism in newsrooms. Political journalists are also more uniform in their values than other sub-groups, but their uniformity is likely to be challenged by current external and internal pressures.

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Section: Three Generations Of Finnish Political Journalists: High Modmentioning

confidence: 99%

More of the Same or a Different Breed Altogether?: A National Comparison of Role Perceptions and Ethical Stances among Finnish Political Journalists

Väliverronen

2018

Nordicom Review

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“…251-252). This is also true of the Nordic countries where the media has commercialised significantly in recent decades, meaning fewer partisan connections, greater financial challenges from public service broadcasting and increasing competition with market-driven content (Herkman 2009). Furthermore, the explosion in the popularity of social media has caused financial difficulties, especially for traditional newspaper houses, which have lost many of their paying customers during the twenty-first century (Nordicom 2016).…”

Section: Political Populism In the Nordic Countriesmentioning

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Articulations of populism: the Nordic case

Herkman

2016

Cultural Studies

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Populism as a concept is elusive and has been connected to very different political movements. Generally, populism's connotations are rather negative and the term is often used pejoratively in the academic field as well. However, Ernesto Laclau has approached populism by arguing that populist reason is a manifestation of political logic in which group identification-formed through various signifiers such as 'the people', which are articulated as part of an 'equivalence chain'-eventually establishes political agency as a totality. This paper uses Laclau's articulation theory to analyse the public construction of contemporary populism in the Nordic countries of Sweden, Finland, Norway and Denmark. The analysis demonstrates that mainstream media frame populism rather negatively, although examples of the term's positive identification with 'the people' are available, especially in the tabloid media. Thus, the positive identification behind the forming of populist movements clashes with the media discourse that prioritises established journalistic views, practices and sources, making populism a 'floating signifier', i.e. a concept that has several meanings which are contested in various public discourses. A general pattern in the construction of populism in Northern European multi-party democracies can be discerned, thus identifying the central role of nationalist and nativist identifications in contingent populist articulations. However, the differences between the Nordic countries emphasise a context-driven approach.

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“…For instance, by 1992, nationwide newspapers with a distinct editorial profile-whether religious, political, or cultural-became eligible for press support under the Norwegian system (Østbye 1995). Meanwhile, the Finns saw substantial cuts to the level of subsidies in the 1990s, as since then, €13-14 million per year have been designated for press subsidies compared to €79 million in 1985 (Herkman 2009).…”

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The Media Welfare State Nordic Media in the Digital Era

Syvertsen¹,

Mjøs²,

Moe³

et al. 2014

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oping the overall framework and main points of each chapter. Still, there has been a division of labor. Ole J. Mjøs had the original idea for the book, developed the initial synopsis together with Hallvard Moe, and coordinated the work from start to finish. He is the primary author of chapter 4 and contributed significantly to chapters 1 and 6. Trine Syvertsen played a leading role in the development and conceptualization of the overarching perspectives. She is the primary author of chapters 1 and 2 and contributed significantly to chapters 4, 5, and 6. Gunn Enli is the primary author of chapter 5 and contributed significantly to chapters 3, 4, and 6. Hallvard Moe is the primary author of chapter 3 and contributed significantly to chapters 1, 4, and 5. We are thankful for the commitment and enthusiasm of Joseph Turow, the book series editor, and Tom Dwyer, our acquisitions editor at the University of Michigan Press. We would also like to thank Andrea Olson for coordinating the copyediting of the manuscript. We are grateful to the two anonymous reviewers, whose critique and suggestions improved the overall quality of the book. Many have commented on and discussed unfinished chapters and papers, and we particularly wish to thank Espen Ytreberg, Vilde Schanke Sundet, Kari Karpinnen, and Henrik Søndergaard for valuable feedback. Thanks to Lene Vibeke Hansen and Chimen Darbandi for much appreciated practical assistance. Thanks to the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, for financial support. We also wish to express our thanks to Maury Saslaf for proofreading. We sincerely hope that the book will be useful to students of Nordic media. Many students have read and discussed preliminary versions of the book. We would like to extend our warm thanks to students attending Nordic media and summer school courses at the University of Oslo and courses on the Norwegian media system at the University of Bergen. We alone bear the responsibility for the book's content, but we have been inspired and encouraged by your helpful comments along the way.

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The Structural Transformation of The Democratic Corporatist Model: The Case of Finland

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

More of the Same or a Different Breed Altogether?: A National Comparison of Role Perceptions and Ethical Stances among Finnish Political Journalists

More of the Same or a Different Breed Altogether?: A National Comparison of Role Perceptions and Ethical Stances among Finnish Political Journalists

Articulations of populism: the Nordic case

The Media Welfare State Nordic Media in the Digital Era

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