This study offers insights into articulations between the normative and the empirical in online journalists' self-negotiations concerning their roles in people's assimilation of information, the daily provision of news and their institutional status in online departments. In-depth interviews with online journalists from two leading newspapers, Delo in Slovenia and Novosti in Serbia, are used to investigate their negotiations with respect to their societal role. The analysis reveals troubled negotiation processes among interviewed online journalists when they consider what is regarded as true journalism, news production requirements and their institutional status. This indicates that rearrangements of political-economic relations in both post-socialist societies have increased journalism's responsibility to the media owners and power holders and surpassed its normatively defined responsibility to the public. Both case subjects are compared through the prism of the processes of negotiati...on of normative principles of journalism in the social, national and institutional contexts of the two newspapers.
Keywords:
Online journalists / societal roles / identity / political relevance / institutional status / news production / Slovenia / Serbia
TY - JOUR
AU - Vobić, Igor
AU - Milojević, Ana
PY - 2014
UR - http://rfpn.fpn.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/468
AB - This study offers insights into articulations between the normative and the empirical in online journalists' self-negotiations concerning their roles in people's assimilation of information, the daily provision of news and their institutional status in online departments. In-depth interviews with online journalists from two leading newspapers, Delo in Slovenia and Novosti in Serbia, are used to investigate their negotiations with respect to their societal role. The analysis reveals troubled negotiation processes among interviewed online journalists when they consider what is regarded as true journalism, news production requirements and their institutional status. This indicates that rearrangements of political-economic relations in both post-socialist societies have increased journalism's responsibility to the media owners and power holders and surpassed its normatively defined responsibility to the public. Both case subjects are compared through the prism of the processes of negotiation of normative principles of journalism in the social, national and institutional contexts of the two newspapers.
PB - Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks
T2 - Journalism
T1 - "What we do is not actually journalism": Role negotiations in online departments of two newspapers in Slovenia and Serbia
EP - 1040
IS - 8
SP - 1023
VL - 15
DO - 10.1177/1464884913511572
ER -
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Vobić, I.,& Milojević, A.. (2014). "What we do is not actually journalism": Role negotiations in online departments of two newspapers in Slovenia and Serbia. in Journalism
Sage Publications Inc, Thousand Oaks., 15(8), 1023-1040.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913511572
Vobić I, Milojević A. "What we do is not actually journalism": Role negotiations in online departments of two newspapers in Slovenia and Serbia. in Journalism. 2014;15(8):1023-1040.
doi:10.1177/1464884913511572 .
Vobić, Igor, Milojević, Ana, ""What we do is not actually journalism": Role negotiations in online departments of two newspapers in Slovenia and Serbia" in Journalism, 15, no. 8 (2014):1023-1040,
https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913511572 . .
