1st Edition

The Global Journalist in the 21st Century

Edited By David H. Weaver, Lars Willnat Copyright 2012

    The Global Journalist in the 21st Century systematically assesses the demographics, education, socialization, professional attitudes and working conditions of journalists in various countries around the world. This book updates the original Global Journalist (1998) volume with new data, adding more than a dozen countries, and provides material on comparative research about journalists that will be useful to those interested in doing their own studies.

    The editors put together this collection working under the assumption that journalists’ backgrounds, working conditions and ideas are related to what is reported (and how it is covered) in the various news media round the world, in spite of societal and organizational constraints, and that this news coverage matters in terms of world public opinion and policies. Outstanding features include:

    • Coverage of 33 nations located around the globe, based on recent surveys conducted among representative samples of local journalists
    • Comprehensive analyses by well-known media scholars from each country
    • A section on comparative studies of journalists
    • An appendix with a collection of survey questions used in various nations to question journalists

    As the most comprehensive and reliable source on journalists around the world, The Global Journalist will serve as the primary source for evaluating the state of journalism. As such, it promises to become a standard reference among journalism, media, and communication students and researchers around the world.

    FOREWORD TO NEW EDITION

    1: INTRODUCTION

    David Weaver and Lars Willnat

    JOURNALISTS IN ASIA

    2: JOURNALISTS IN CHINA

    Hongzhong Zhang

    3: JOURNALISTS IN HONG KONG: A DECADE AFTER THE TRANSFER OF SOVEREIGNTY

    Joseph M. Chan, Francis L. F. Lee, and Clement Y. K. So

    4: JOURNALISTS IN INDONESIA

    Thomas Hanitzsch and Dedy N. Hidayat

    5: THE JAPANESE JOURNALIST IN TRANSITION: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

    Shinji Oi, Mitsuru Fukuda and Shinsuke Sako

    6: KOREAN JOURNALISTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    Young Jun Son, Sung Tae Kim and Jihyang Choi

    7: MALAYSIAN JOURNALISTS

    Ezhar Tamam, Sony Jalarajan Raj, and Manimaran Govindasamy

    8: SINGAPORE JOURNALISM: BUYING INTO A WINNING FORMULA

    Xiaoming Hao and Cherian George

    9: JOURNALISTS IN TAIWAN

    Ven-hwei Lo

    JOURNALISTS IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND

    10: THE AUSTRALIAN JOURNALIST IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    Beate Josephi and Ian Richards

    11: JOURNALISTS IN NEW ZEALAND

    Geoff Lealand and James Hollings

    JOURNALISTS IN EUROPE

    12: A SURVEY OF PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISTS IN FLANDERS (BELGIUM)

    Karin Raeymaeckers, Steve Paulussen and Jeroen De Keyser

    13: MEDIA PROFESSIONALS OR ORGANIZATIONAL MARIONETTES? PROFESSIONAL VALUES AND CONSTRAINTS OF DANISH JOURNALISTS

    Morten Skovsgaard, Erik Albæk, Peter Bro, and Claes de Vreese

    14: FINNISH JOURNALISTS: THE QUEST FOR QUALITY AMIDST NEW PRESSURES

    Jyrki Jyrkiäinen and Ari Heinonen

    15: THE FRENCH JOURNALIST

    Aralynn Abare McMane

    16: JOURNALISM IN GERMANY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    Siegfried Weischenberg, Maja Malik and Armin Scholl

    17: BRITISH JOURNALISTS

    Karen Sanders and Mark Hanna

    18: JOURNALISM IN HUNGARY

    Maria Vasarhelyi

    19: JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM IN THE NETHERLANDS

    Alexander Pleijter, Liesbeth Hermans & Maurice Vergeer

    20: THE JOURNALISTS AND JOURNALISM OF POLAND

    Agnieszka Stepinska, Szymon Ossowski, Lidia Pokrzycka, and Jakub Nowak

    21: RUSSIAN JOURNALISTS AND THEIR PROFESSION

    Svetlana Pasti, Mikhail Chernysh and Luiza Svitich

    22: JOURNALISM IN SLOVENIA

    Peter Lah and Suzana Žilič-Fišer

    23: JOURNALISTS IN SPAIN

    Pedro Farias, Francisco Javier Paniagua Rojano, and Sergio Roses

    24: SWEDISH JOURNALISTS: BETWEEN PROFESSIONALIZATION AND COMMERCIALIZATION

    Jesper Strömbäck, Lars Nord, and Adam Shehata

    25: JOURNALISTS IN SWITZERLAND: STRUCTURE AND ATTITUDES

    Heinz Bonfadelli, Guido Keel, Mirko Marr, and Vinzenz Wyss

    JOURNALISTS IN NORTH AMERICA

    26: THE PROFESSIONAL CREED OF QUEBEC’S JOURNALISTS IN CANADA

    Marc-François Bernier and Marsha Barber

    27: U.S. JOURNALISTS IN THE TUMULTUOUS EARLY YEARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

    Bonnie J. Brownlee and Randal A. Beam

    JOURNALISTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

    28: BRAZILIAN JOURNALISTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY

    Heloiza Golbspan Herscovitz

    29: THE CHILEAN JOURNALIST

    Claudia Mellado with Gustavo González, Carlos Del Valle, Claudia Lagos and Magdalena Saldaña

    30: JOURNALISTS IN COLOMBIA

    Jesus Arroyave and Marta Milena Barrios

    31: MAJOR TRENDS OF JOURNALIST STUDIES IN LATIN AMERICA: A META-ANALYSIS OF FIVE DECADES OF RESEARCH

    Claudia Mellado

    JOURNALISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

    32: ARAB JOURNALISTS

    Lawrence Pintak and Jeremy Ginges

    33: JOURNALISTS IN ISRAEL

    Yariv Tsfati and Oren Meyers

    34: JOURNALISTS IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

    Mohamed Kirat

    COMPARATIVE STUDIES OF JOURNALISM

    35: WORLDS OF JOURNALISM: JOURNALISTIC CULTURES, PROFESSIONAL AUTONOMY AND PERCEIVED INFLUENCES ACROSS 18 NATIONS

    Thomas Hanitzsch et al.

    36: FOREIGN JOURNALISTS – AN ENDANGERED SPECIES?

    Lars Willnat and Jason Martin

    37: POLITICAL JOURNALISTS: COVERING POLITICS IN THE DEMOCRATIC CORPORATIST MEDIA SYSTEM

    Arjen van Dalen and Peter Van Aelst

    CONCLUSIONS

    38: CONCLUSIONS

    David Weaver and Lars Willnat

    ABOUT THE AUTHORS

    INDEX

    Biography

    David H. Weaver is the Roy W. Howard Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication Research in the School of Journalism at Indiana University's Bloomington campus. He is widely published in journalism and political communication.

    Lars Willnat is Professor in the School of Journalism at Indiana University. Before joining IU in 2009, Professor Willnat taught at the George Washington University in Washington, DC and at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include media effects on political attitudes, theoretical aspects of public opinion formation, international communication, and political communication in Asia.

    'Essential...This volume offers a profile of who journalists are, and where and how they emerge and function. It addresses issues regarding job satisfaction, perceived autonomy, roles, and the ethics of reporting methods. The single source of agreement worldwide seems to be that journalists will not reveal news sources when confidentiality has been promised. This volume presents data and information not available elsewhere, making it a necessary purchase for journalism programs.' – CHOICE magazine, G. R. Walden, Ohio State University, USA