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Studying journalists in changing times: understanding news work as socially-situated practice

journal contribution
posted on 2012-11-12, 14:39 authored by R. Dickinson, J. Matthews, Kostas Saltzis
Industry insiders and media academics often voice unease about the transformations taking place in the global news industry. Despite its usefulness in drawing attention to the twists and turns of organizational change and innovation in news production, much of the research on this topic shows less interest in journalists’ situated experience than is helpful. This article suggests that academic attention might be usefully refocused to the changing nature and experiences of journalists as they encounter the changes taking place in their industry. Such a focus can be justified on theoretical grounds: the implications of change in the news industry for its traditional democratic role cannot be understood without understanding in detail what journalists do and how they do it. While acknowledging that news production takes place in the context of competitive commercial enterprise, the authors argue that fruitful avenues for empirical enquiry can be opened up by adopting a more practice-centred analysis. The article concludes by introducing recent research that joins this pursuit.

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Citation

International Communication Gazette, Forthcoming February 2013 (Special Issue on Changing Journalistic Practices)

Author affiliation

/Organisation/COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCE/Department of Media and Communication

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Published in

International Communication Gazette

Publisher

SAGE Publications

issn

1748-0485

eissn

1748-0493

Copyright date

2013

Publisher version

http://www.uk.sagepub.com/journals/Journal200826

Notes

Co-editors' introduction of Special Issue on 'Changing Journalistic Practices'. Embargo length currently unknown. The article is still in press. It is expected to appear in February 2013 and will have a 12 month embargo on availability of the full text once it has been published.

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en

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