The fickle forerunner

The rise of bylines and authorship in the French press

Dados Bibliográficos

ID7477468
AutoresZvi Reich (0000-0002-5523-1821, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, autor correspondente), Sandrine Boudana (0000-0002-8968-2292, Tel Aviv University)
Ano2013
Volume15
Fascículo4
Páginas407-426
Data de publicação2013-06-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournalism (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-8849 • E-ISSN: 1741-3001
EditoraSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1464884913489523
OpenAlexW2127342253
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas12
Referências citadas19

Credit attribution for journalists represents a crucial development in journalism, with numerous organizational, legal, political and literary implications. This article explores the rise of bylines and authorship in the French press during the last 250 years, as an alternative to the Anglo-American model, on which studies have focused. Findings show that bylines not only emerged much earlier in France but also represent different driving forces, functions and dynamics. While the Anglo-American rise of bylines reflected an occupational and organizational phenomenon, in which bylines were considered professional rewards, in the French case, the evolution of bylines was dependent on exogenous factors, mostly political forces that tried to discipline adversarial writers. Thus, in contrast with the quasi-linear progress of Anglo-American bylines, the French case is characterized by ebbs and flows, due to the continuous power struggle between the emerging journalistic field and the literary and political fields

Adversarial system · Attribution · Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Institutional logic · Journalism · Media studies · Organizational field · Phenomenon · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis · Media Studies and Communication · Media, Journalism, and Communication History · Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Social Psychology