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Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies - Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020
Volume 9, Issue 1, 2020
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To share is to receive: News as social currency for social media reciprocity
Authors: Edson C. Tandoc Jr., Alice Huang, Andrew Duffy, Rich Ling and Nuri KimGuided by the framework of reciprocity on social media, the current study investigated antecedents of news sharing. Using a two-wave panel survey involving 868 respondents who took two surveys about one year apart, this study examined the effect of frequency of receiving news on social media on subsequent news-sharing behaviour, while controlling for demographics, news-sharing motivations and trust in social media news. The study found that motivation for self-presentation and trust in news shared by one's social media network positively predicted news sharing on social media. Frequency of receiving news at Time 1 also predicted sharing news subsequently at Time 2. This points to news being valued as a form of social currency.
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Closed doors, empty desks: The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom
Authors: Monika Metyková and Lenka Waschková CísařováThe crisis of journalism has been the subject of extensive scholarly and public debate. We argue that this debate needs to focus on actual developments on the ground that may be specific for a given society and that have serious consequences for the material conditions of journalists' work. We focus specifically on local print newsrooms in the Czech Republic, one of the 'new democracies' of Eastern Europe. We interviewed local journalists in middle-management positions at key stages of the transformation of the local newspaper publishing group Vltava Labe Press (VLP). We first approached journalists in 2015 when VLP's German owners – the publishing house Verlagsgruppe Passau – sold the company to the Slovak investment group Penta and followed up a year later when the 're-structuralization' of the local newspaper publisher was completed. It is not surprising that our case study demonstrates that commercial pressures impact directly on the material conditions and the locations and spaces of journalists' work, with the latter ones representing areas that form a crucial part of workplace autonomy, but have thus far been under-researched.
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Reporting with emotion: A comparison of journalists' engagement in emotional labour across media types
Authors: John E. Huxford and K. Megan HopperThis study explores the process of emotional labour in journalism. In a series of one-on-one interviews, journalists reflected upon their experiences while gathering the news and agreed they do indeed engage in emotional labour, suppressing or manipulating their own emotions as part of the job at hand. However, while journalists across media share much in common in this process, this study identifies important subsets within the profession. Across the divide of print and television, journalists draw on quite different types of working practice in their pursuit of news and have markedly different mindsets and attitudes towards emotional labour, as well as relying on different mechanisms for coping with the difficulties that arise from emotional control. Our findings show that with little or no training in this practice, and with the majority of journalists achieving merely a deferment of upsetting emotions, emotional labour can have serious implications for those reporters who engage in it.
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Financial capability, the financial crisis and trust in news media
Authors: Sophie Knowles and Steve SchifferesSince the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 the financial media has been analysed from the perspectives of experts and far less from the audiences who consume it. This article fills this gap by exploring public consumption of financial news and their levels of satisfaction. It explores another, less researched, issue; that of financial literacy, which is a major impediment to public understanding and is weaker among women, young people and the less affluent. Consequently, the study makes the following suggestions: financial journalism needs to respond to a wide audience and provide more useful, unbiased and accessible financial news; personal finance news, which is an under-researched genre, could build financial capability levels and might improve trust between media and its audiences; and the financial media should be considered a key player by policy-makers if they want to bolster financial capability.
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