The Online Journalist Between Ideals and Audiences

Towards a (more) audience-driven and source-detached journalism

Bibliographic Data

ID12909288
AuthorsJannie Møller Hartley (0000-0001-5784-2864, Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume7
Issue5
Pages572-587
Publication date2013-01-09
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2012.755386
OpenAlexW1840491331
LanguageEN
Citations received26
References cited30

How do online journalists define themselves? Journalistic self-perception plays a big part in understanding developments in the practice of online journalism in newsrooms. This article presents an analysis of the self-perceptions of online journalists using the theoretical framework of Pierre Bourdieu and data from empirical longitudinal observations based on ethnographic fieldwork in three Danish newsrooms. The analytical concepts “journalistic doxa”, “news habitus” and “editorial capital” are applied in an analysis both of ethnographic observations of journalistic practice, and a series of interviews with 35 journalists and editors. This analysis shows that online journalists position themselves in opposition to the “old” forms of journalism, which include the use of such well-known journalistic resources as specialist knowledge, technical skills, and research and writing as professional tools. However, at the same time they accept the “old” as “better” journalism, which indicates that online journalism is deeply embedded in a dominated position in the overall field of journalism. A scheme of four different analytical positions among online journalists is presented within a constructed “field of online news production”

Citizen journalism · Doxa · Epistemology · Ethnography · Field (mathematics · Habitus · Journalism · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Perception · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Media Studies and Communication · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics

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