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1st Edition

Journalism in Transition Role Performance in a Changing Media Landscape

Edited By Claudia Mellado, Daniel C. Hallin Copyright 2027

144 Pages

by Routledge

Description

This volume brings together cutting-edge research on how journalism is practiced and transformed in a rapidly changing media environment. Drawing on diverse case studies from around the world, the book explores how journalists navigate tensions between professional ideals and real-world constraints, including political pressures, technological change, audience demands, and evolving relationships... Read more

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Change

Claudia Mellado and Daniel Hallin

2. Journalists’ Ideological Branding: Bridging Professional and Personal Branding on Twitter

Arnon Kedem and Motti Neiger

3. Strengthening the Theoretical Foundations of Role Performance Theory

David Ryfe

4. How the Social Complements, Extends or Replaces the Professional: Autonomy and Adaptation in Journalist–Source Relationships

Milda Malling

5. Navigating Ideals and Realities: On Using Reconstruction Interviews to Study Journalistic Roles

Alexandra Schwinges

6. A Watchdog That No Longer Barks: Role Performance of Investigative Journalism in China in the Digital Age

Haiyan Wang and Angze Li

7. Catch, Engage, Retain: Audience-Oriented Journalistic Role Performance in Canada

Nicole Blanchett, Colette Brin and Stuart Duncan

8. Journalistic Role Performance in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Events, Media Systems and Journalistic Practice

David Nolan, Kieran McGuinness, Jee Young Lee, Kate Holland and Monique Lewis

9. Feeding off Each Other: Journalistic Role Negotiations Between Local and Foreign Reporters in Nairobi

Cecilia Arregui Olivera

10. Between Headlines and Punchlines: Journalistic Role Performance in Western News Satire

Sara Ödmark and Jonas Nicolaï

11. Interpreting or Reporting? An Analysis of Journalistic Interventionism Across Western European Countries

Susanna Pagiotti, Anna Stanziano, Marco Mazzoni and Roberto Mincigrucci

12. “Whether That’s Truly Objective Journalism, Probably Not”. Professional Retreatism and Professional Dilemmas When Reporting on Muslims

Nadia Haq

13. Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press

Michał Tkaczyk

14. Scrutinizing Algorithms: Assessing Journalistic Role Performance in Chinese News Media’s Coverage of Artificial Intelligence

Xiaolu Ji, Joanne Kuai and Rodrigo Zamith

15. And That’s a Fact: A Rhetorical Perspective on the Role of Fact-Checkers

Mette Bengtsson and Sabina Schousboe

16. Changes in Journalism in Politicized Media Systems: A Study on Newspapers in Poland and Hungary

Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó and Kinga Adamczewska

17. The Context-Dependent Demand for Watchdog Journalism: Dynamics in Audience Expectations for Journalists’ Role Performance

Morten Skovsgaard, Lene Heiselberg and Kim Andersen

Editor(s)

Biography

Claudia Mellado is a professor of journalism in the School of Journalism at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (PUCV), Chile, and a Fellow of the International Communication Association. Her research focuses on the study of journalism cultures, journalistic roles, and comparative studies. She is the principal investigator of the Journalistic Role Performance (JRP) Project.

Daniel C. Hallin is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego. His books include, The "Uncensored War": The Media and Vietnam; "We Keep America on Top of the World": Television Journalism and the Public Sphere, Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics; and Making Health Public.

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