JOUR 625 Lecture 2: Newsroom Culture in a Time of Change
6 Aug 2020
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Mainstream journalism has to either adapt or die. Journalists are being laid off now, more than ever before. Economic pressures are more felt in newsrooms as well. Not a lot is known about routines and practices of changing production in news. Little is also known about how journalists understand these changes and what this means for the self-conception of journalists and news production. Professional culture in newsrooms is resilient and resilient to changing. From its initial creation, reporters have had difficulty in adapting to new guidelines. If you ask journalists what a reporter is, they will say a reporter is a person who rights factual stories of what happened over the day. Reporters answer like this because the journalists identity is bound to its practice very closely. This means that journalism will always be a quasi-profession or a craft. It means that changing this practice might mean changing identity.
