The shaping of an online feature journalist

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7477263
AutoresSteen Steensen (0000-0003-2675-1817, Oslo University College, autor correspondente)
Ano2009
Volume10
Fascículo5
Páginas702-718
Data de publicação2009-09-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884909106540
OpenAlexW2127924066
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas24
Referências citadas30

This article explores the professional role and normative demands of online feature journalists. Through a longitudinal ethnographic case study of the work practices of feature journalists in the Norwegian online newspaper dagbladet.no, the article uncovers how the normative demands of a new professional role are negotiated within the online newsroom of a newspaper. It further reveals how the role of journalists is shaped by two axes: a historical axis of factors that have shaped the role of journalists throughout history, and a contemporary axis of the particulars of labour in modern society at large. The findings suggest that online feature journalists practise a more audience-driven and source-detached kind of journalism than their print counterparts. They further suggest that the remediation of feature journalism online yields increased status to the role of online journalists at large

Art · Audience participation · Citizen journalism · Ethnography · Feature (linguistics · Feature film · Journalism · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Normative · Norwegian · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Visual arts · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Law