Vinzenz Wy
Biographic Data
| ID | 4169064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vinzenz Wy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vinzenz |
| FAMILY NAME | Wy |
| SIGNATURE | WY V |
| AFFILIATIONS | ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4145-1660 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 106 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Am Rande des Journalismus. Rollenverständnis und Transformationspotenzial peripherer Akteur: Innen in der Dach-Region
In den vergangenen Jahren hat die Entgrenzung des journalistischen Feldes dazu geführt, dass die Unterscheidung zwischen Journalismus und Nicht-Journalismus zunehmend schwieriger geworden ist. In der Journalismusforschung wird deshalb besonderes Augenmerk auf sogenannte periphere Akteure gelegt, also jene, die zwar oftmals journalismusähnliche Inhalte produzieren, aber nicht im traditionellen Sinne als Journalist:innen gelten. Beispiele sind Blog…
A longitudinal analysis from 2008 to 2023: What you always wanted to know about journalists in Switzerland
The article provides a comprehensive overview of journalists in Switzerland based on the most recent wave of the Worlds of Journalism (WoJ) survey conducted in 2023. The study investigates the demographics, working conditions, role perceptions, and safety concerns of Swiss journalists. Building on past survey waves from 2008 and 2015, this study extends the analysis to 1 179 journalists across all three language regions. The findings highlight tr…
Abusive lawsuits against media professionals in Switzerland: Insights from expert interviews and a nationwide survey
Abusive lawsuits aimed at silencing journalists—so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)—pose a serious threat to press freedom and liberal societies. In Switzerland, empirical research on the phenomenon has been largely absent. This study addresses this gap through a mixed-methods design that combines expert interviews with a nationwide survey of editorial managers. It examines the occurrence, definitional challenges, a…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Covid
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more…
Innovations in Journalism as Complex Interplay: Supportive and Obstructive Factors in International Comparison
Where does innovation in journalism come from, how is it implemented, and what factors drive or hinder its development? Scholars have explored these questions from different perspectives for over two decades. Our research holistically considers the broader factors that influence the development of journalistic innovation at the macro, meso, and micro levels, and whether it is internally or externally driven. In a three-year international research…
Nachruf auf Michael Schanne. Wissenschafts-, Risiko- und Gesundheitskommunikation als zentrale Forschungsfelder
Michael Schanne (27.6.1948–30. 8. 2021) studierte Soziologie, Publizistikwissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich und schloss sein Studium 1977 mit Lizentiat bei Prof. Peter Heintz in Soziologie ab. Danach war er Assistent am Seminar für Publizistikwissenschaft bei Prof. Ulrich Saxer bis Mitte der 1980er Jahre. 1987 gründete er mit Werner A. Meier die AGK – Arbeitsgruppe für Kommunikationsforschung und -beratung und führte u…
Journalists in Switzerland
Until the late 1990s, no data was available on the subject of Swiss journalists or the state of journalism in Switzerland. After the national survey of 1998, a new survey was conducted in 2007/2008 to determine how journalists and journalism in Switzerland had changed over the last decade, and how changes in the media (e.g,m the Internet) and society (e.g., globalization, commercialization) had affected journalists in the country. This article pr…
Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel: Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Journalists in Switzerland: Structures and attitudes revisited
It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order…
Quelle Différence: Language, culture and nationality as influences on francophone journalists’ identity
Canada, Belgium and Switzerland are multicultural countries with several similarities including having French as a minority language. The trio also shares similar media landscapes, systems and approaches to journalism to those of other Western European and Northern American countries. These commonalities offer an opportunity to probe for the possibility of a language-based differentiation in journalists’ professional identities. Our comparative a…
Qualitätsmanagement in Redaktionen
Journalismus als duale Struktur
Demokratisierung durch Social Media?: Mediensymposium 2012
Journalism Students’ Motivations and Expectations of Their Work in Comparative Perspective
Based on a survey of 4,393 journalism students in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, this study provides much-needed comparative evidence about students’ motivations for becoming journalists, their future job plans, and expectations. Findings show not only an almost universal decline in students’ desire to work in journalism by the end of their program but also important national differences…
The Pre-Socialization of Future Journalists: An examination of journalism students' professional views in seven countries
While the role of university journalism education in the professionalization of journalists has been extensively debated, systematic and comparative studies of journalism students are still scarce. This paper reports the findings from a comparative study of journalism students in seven countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. The data show a number of similarities, but also important differences betw…
Narration freilegen: Zur Konsequenz der Mehrsystemrelevanz als Leitdifferenz des Qualitätsjournalismus
Wie ist es möglich, über die Vergangenheit und Zukunft von Qualitätsmedien zu debattieren, bevor nicht verhandelt ist, was Qualitätsmedien sein können und welche Qualitätsmerkmale diese als solche auszeichnen? Wenn von Qualitätsmedien die Rede ist, wird oft stillschweigend eine Qualität vorausgesetzt, die diesen Medien im Unterschied zu anderen Medien – etwa zur Boulevardpresse, zum so genannten „popular paper“, zu kommerziellen Rundfunkorganisat…
Representation of Islam and Christianity in the Swiss Media
What is the role of the media in multi-religious societies? Are they aggravating latent tensions between religions or rather helping to promote mutual understanding? These are the key research questions addressed in this paper. The discussion in this paper refers to narration and framing as two theoretical approaches from communication science. The empirical findings of a media content analysis in Switzerland show strong differences between Islam…
Die Suchmaschine als Danaergeschenk. Zur strukturellen Gewalt der „Googleisierung“ des Journalismus
Mit dem Internet steht dem Journalismus eine Vielzahl von neuen Ressourcen zur Verfügung, die das Potenzial haben, die journalistische Arbeit und damit die Leistungen des Journalismus zu verbessern. So hat das Internet den journalistischen Produktionsprozess wesentlich verändert; es ist heute nicht mehr wegzudenken (vgl. Springer/Wolling in diesem Band). Eine wichtige Rolle spielen dabei — insbesondere im Rechercheprozess — die Suchmaschinen. Im …
Journalismus als duale Struktur
Montagmorgen, 7.09 Uhr: R. — ein Redakteur bei einem privaten Rundfunksender — beginnt nach dem Verlesen der 7 Uhr-Nachrichten damit, die Schlagzeilen für die Nachrichtenübersicht von 7.30 Uhr vorzubereiten, als ihn eine Medienmitteilung der Polizei erreicht. In der Meldung wird über eine versuchte Vergewaltigung am Rande eines am Vorabend veranstalteten Dorffestes im Empfangsgebiet des Rundfunksenders berichtet. Es werden einige Angaben zum Tath…
The Pre-Socialization of Future Journalists: An examination of journalism students' professional views in seven countries
While the role of university journalism education in the professionalization of journalists has been extensively debated, systematic and comparative studies of journalism students are still scarce. This paper reports the findings from a comparative study of journalism students in seven countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. The data show a number of similarities, but also important differences betw…
Journalism Students’ Motivations and Expectations of Their Work in Comparative Perspective
Based on a survey of 4,393 journalism students in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, this study provides much-needed comparative evidence about students’ motivations for becoming journalists, their future job plans, and expectations. Findings show not only an almost universal decline in students’ desire to work in journalism by the end of their program but also important national differences…
Quelle Différence: Language, culture and nationality as influences on francophone journalists’ identity
Canada, Belgium and Switzerland are multicultural countries with several similarities including having French as a minority language. The trio also shares similar media landscapes, systems and approaches to journalism to those of other Western European and Northern American countries. These commonalities offer an opportunity to probe for the possibility of a language-based differentiation in journalists’ professional identities. Our comparative a…
Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Covid
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Innovations in Journalism as Complex Interplay: Supportive and Obstructive Factors in International Comparison
Where does innovation in journalism come from, how is it implemented, and what factors drive or hinder its development? Scholars have explored these questions from different perspectives for over two decades. Our research holistically considers the broader factors that influence the development of journalistic innovation at the macro, meso, and micro levels, and whether it is internally or externally driven. In a three-year international research…
Journalists in Switzerland: Structures and attitudes revisited
It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order…
Representation of Islam and Christianity in the Swiss Media
What is the role of the media in multi-religious societies? Are they aggravating latent tensions between religions or rather helping to promote mutual understanding? These are the key research questions addressed in this paper. The discussion in this paper refers to narration and framing as two theoretical approaches from communication science. The empirical findings of a media content analysis in Switzerland show strong differences between Islam…
Journalismus als duale Struktur
Montagmorgen, 7.09 Uhr: R. — ein Redakteur bei einem privaten Rundfunksender — beginnt nach dem Verlesen der 7 Uhr-Nachrichten damit, die Schlagzeilen für die Nachrichtenübersicht von 7.30 Uhr vorzubereiten, als ihn eine Medienmitteilung der Polizei erreicht. In der Meldung wird über eine versuchte Vergewaltigung am Rande eines am Vorabend veranstalteten Dorffestes im Empfangsgebiet des Rundfunksenders berichtet. Es werden einige Angaben zum Tath…
Die Suchmaschine als Danaergeschenk. Zur strukturellen Gewalt der „Googleisierung“ des Journalismus
Mit dem Internet steht dem Journalismus eine Vielzahl von neuen Ressourcen zur Verfügung, die das Potenzial haben, die journalistische Arbeit und damit die Leistungen des Journalismus zu verbessern. So hat das Internet den journalistischen Produktionsprozess wesentlich verändert; es ist heute nicht mehr wegzudenken (vgl. Springer/Wolling in diesem Band). Eine wichtige Rolle spielen dabei — insbesondere im Rechercheprozess — die Suchmaschinen. Im …
Narration freilegen: Zur Konsequenz der Mehrsystemrelevanz als Leitdifferenz des Qualitätsjournalismus
Wie ist es möglich, über die Vergangenheit und Zukunft von Qualitätsmedien zu debattieren, bevor nicht verhandelt ist, was Qualitätsmedien sein können und welche Qualitätsmerkmale diese als solche auszeichnen? Wenn von Qualitätsmedien die Rede ist, wird oft stillschweigend eine Qualität vorausgesetzt, die diesen Medien im Unterschied zu anderen Medien – etwa zur Boulevardpresse, zum so genannten „popular paper“, zu kommerziellen Rundfunkorganisat…
Representation of Islam and Christianity in the Swiss Media
What is the role of the media in multi-religious societies? Are they aggravating latent tensions between religions or rather helping to promote mutual understanding? These are the key research questions addressed in this paper. The discussion in this paper refers to narration and framing as two theoretical approaches from communication science. The empirical findings of a media content analysis in Switzerland show strong differences between Islam…
The Pre-Socialization of Future Journalists: An examination of journalism students' professional views in seven countries
While the role of university journalism education in the professionalization of journalists has been extensively debated, systematic and comparative studies of journalism students are still scarce. This paper reports the findings from a comparative study of journalism students in seven countries: Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. The data show a number of similarities, but also important differences betw…
Journalism Students’ Motivations and Expectations of Their Work in Comparative Perspective
Based on a survey of 4,393 journalism students in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, this study provides much-needed comparative evidence about students’ motivations for becoming journalists, their future job plans, and expectations. Findings show not only an almost universal decline in students’ desire to work in journalism by the end of their program but also important national differences…
Demokratisierung durch Social Media?: Mediensymposium 2012
Qualitätsmanagement in Redaktionen
Journalismus als duale Struktur
Quelle Différence: Language, culture and nationality as influences on francophone journalists’ identity
Canada, Belgium and Switzerland are multicultural countries with several similarities including having French as a minority language. The trio also shares similar media landscapes, systems and approaches to journalism to those of other Western European and Northern American countries. These commonalities offer an opportunity to probe for the possibility of a language-based differentiation in journalists’ professional identities. Our comparative a…
Journalists in Switzerland: Structures and attitudes revisited
It is often stated that journalism and the media are going through some fundamental changes. In this article, we present a description of the journalists in Switzerland, based on a nation-wide survey conducted in 2015. This data gives a quantitative description of journalists in Switzerland. Furthermore, this article makes comparison between various groups of journalists, for example between the different language regions in Switzerland, in order…
Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Zwischen Kontinuität und Wandel: Journalismus in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Journalists in Switzerland
Until the late 1990s, no data was available on the subject of Swiss journalists or the state of journalism in Switzerland. After the national survey of 1998, a new survey was conducted in 2007/2008 to determine how journalists and journalism in Switzerland had changed over the last decade, and how changes in the media (e.g,m the Internet) and society (e.g., globalization, commercialization) had affected journalists in the country. This article pr…
Nachruf auf Michael Schanne. Wissenschafts-, Risiko- und Gesundheitskommunikation als zentrale Forschungsfelder
Michael Schanne (27.6.1948–30. 8. 2021) studierte Soziologie, Publizistikwissenschaft und Politikwissenschaft an der Universität Zürich und schloss sein Studium 1977 mit Lizentiat bei Prof. Peter Heintz in Soziologie ab. Danach war er Assistent am Seminar für Publizistikwissenschaft bei Prof. Ulrich Saxer bis Mitte der 1980er Jahre. 1987 gründete er mit Werner A. Meier die AGK – Arbeitsgruppe für Kommunikationsforschung und -beratung und führte u…
Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Covid
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more…
Innovations in Journalism as Complex Interplay: Supportive and Obstructive Factors in International Comparison
Where does innovation in journalism come from, how is it implemented, and what factors drive or hinder its development? Scholars have explored these questions from different perspectives for over two decades. Our research holistically considers the broader factors that influence the development of journalistic innovation at the macro, meso, and micro levels, and whether it is internally or externally driven. In a three-year international research…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Am Rande des Journalismus. Rollenverständnis und Transformationspotenzial peripherer Akteur: Innen in der Dach-Region
In den vergangenen Jahren hat die Entgrenzung des journalistischen Feldes dazu geführt, dass die Unterscheidung zwischen Journalismus und Nicht-Journalismus zunehmend schwieriger geworden ist. In der Journalismusforschung wird deshalb besonderes Augenmerk auf sogenannte periphere Akteure gelegt, also jene, die zwar oftmals journalismusähnliche Inhalte produzieren, aber nicht im traditionellen Sinne als Journalist:innen gelten. Beispiele sind Blog…
A longitudinal analysis from 2008 to 2023: What you always wanted to know about journalists in Switzerland
The article provides a comprehensive overview of journalists in Switzerland based on the most recent wave of the Worlds of Journalism (WoJ) survey conducted in 2023. The study investigates the demographics, working conditions, role perceptions, and safety concerns of Swiss journalists. Building on past survey waves from 2008 and 2015, this study extends the analysis to 1 179 journalists across all three language regions. The findings highlight tr…
Abusive lawsuits against media professionals in Switzerland: Insights from expert interviews and a nationwide survey
Abusive lawsuits aimed at silencing journalists—so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs)—pose a serious threat to press freedom and liberal societies. In Switzerland, empirical research on the phenomenon has been largely absent. This study addresses this gap through a mixed-methods design that combines expert interviews with a nationwide survey of editorial managers. It examines the occurrence, definitional challenges, a…
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