Journalistic Professionalism in Greece

Between Chronic and Acute Crises

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ID20053767
AuthorsAchilleas Karadimitriou (0000-0003-3670-968X, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages159-178
Publication date2020-10-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueEmerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherEmerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1108/978-1-83982-400-520201034
OpenAlexW3092336992
ISBN9781839824005
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited16

Crisis in journalism is a widely discussed and controversial topic in Greece since 2009 when economic recession afflicted the Greek society. However, the last decade of financial hardships and ownership changes in the Greek media sector (2009–2019) gave rise to a widening of perception on the part of journalists of what really crisis stands for when it comes to their profession. Based on 25 in-depth interviews with Greek leading news media professionals from all types of media outlets (press, television, radio and news websites), the present research describes how journalists perceive, assess and manage the crisis of their profession in today's networked media landscape, characterised by unprecedented phenomena such as the rise of churnalism, post truth journalism and fake news in the context of new trends with regard to how the Greek audience is seeking information and consuming news. While existing research on journalism profession has tended to emphasise the conversion of journalist into a multitasked employee towards audience members who treat journalism with suspicion, this chapter focusses on to what extent journalists by themselves are critical of their profession's vulnerabilities such as the lack of genuine investigative journalism, alienation from the actual reporting based on primary material and manipulation of media professionals within an unstable market. The research gives insights into journalists' opinions and attitudes with regard to the symptoms indicating that journalism in Greece is suffering from chronic and acute crises related to the extraction and dissemination of news, the relationship of journalists with media owners as well as the operation of the media market

Alienation · Economics · Journalism · Media studies · News media · Perception · Political science · Public relations · Recession · Sociology · Technical Journalism · History · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology

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