Peripheral News Workers’ Autonomy

The Case of a Czech Regional Television Newsroom

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ID12908751
AutoresMonika Metyková (0000-0002-6391-5203, University of Sussex, autor correspondente), Lenka Waschková Císařová (0000-0002-3307-0801, Masaryk University)
Ano2023
Volume19
Fascículo4
Páginas786-802
Data de publicação2023-05-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2023.2209059
OpenAlexW4376138027
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas37

In this article, we revisit some of the debates about changing journalistic labour that have first emerged when digital technologies became widely available in newsrooms. The terms multiskilling, deskilling, up-skilling and re-skilling have been applied in a variety of contexts and in a range of studies, but explorations of journalistic labour have tended to focus on core (news) workers. The de-skilling debate that originated in Braverman’s work continues to be relevant but we need a more nuanced approach to journalistic labour. Our case study addresses skills and changing work conditions in a regional Czech public service television newsroom and takes into account the experience of core as well as peripheral news workers. We conclude that camera reporters—those at the periphery of journalistic work—have faced the most detrimental loss of professional autonomy. We argue that a holistic approach to the core and the periphery of a newsroom helps us overcome some of the shortcomings of the conceptual variety of understandings of the journalistic field and the journalistic profession as well as the divergent definitions of skills involved in journalistic labour. Our case study is also important because it centres on under-researched public service media

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