Newswork and Precarity

"Journalism may feel solid now, as we are awash in news, but Newswork and Precarity shows just how fragile the news industry really is. By taking up the complexities of precarity across both different segments of journalism and geographical locations, the authors in this comprehensive collection showcase the variety of often hidden barriers that impede the work of reporting the news. Theoretically and empirically rich, this is an invaluable resource for making sense of the challenges journalists face in the course of doing their jobs and for plotting a better future for news." - Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era, and co-author of News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture.

"Journalism today is in a state of crisis unprecedented in its history, and a global crisis at that. It is a core component of the crisis of democracy now engulfing the world. Newswork and Precarity is an essential contribution, leading scholars toward understanding the crisis, how we got here and what it means." - Robert W. McChesney, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Kalyani Chada’s and Linda Steiner’s edited collection adds a much-needed global perspective to the emerging scholarly debate on the increased precarity of journalistic work. Authors (drawn from all over the world) analyze precarity by putting the phenomenon within wider contexts of historical change; the rise of new funding models; increased harassment of and risk to journalists; and social and global inequalities more generally. These contextualizations develop the discussion of precarity in new and innovative ways, and urgently links precarity in journalism to the increased precarity of democracy. Highly recommended." – Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University.

"Journalism may feel solid now, as we are awash in news, but Newswork and Precarity shows just how fragile the news industry really is. By taking up the complexities of precarity across both different segments of journalism and geographical locations, the authors in this comprehensive collection showcase the variety of often hidden barriers that impede the work of reporting the news. Theoretically and empirically rich, this is an invaluable resource for making sense of the challenges journalists face in the course of doing their jobs and for plotting a better future for news." - Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, author of Journalistic Authority: Legitimating News in the Digital Era, and co-author of News After Trump: Journalism’s Crisis of Relevance in a Changed Media Culture.

"Journalism today is in a state of crisis unprecedented in its history, and a global crisis at that. It is a core component of the crisis of democracy now engulfing the world. Newswork and Precarity is an essential contribution, leading scholars toward understanding the crisis, how we got here and what it means." - Robert W. McChesney, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"Kalyani Chada’s and Linda Steiner’s edited collection adds a much-needed global perspective to the emerging scholarly debate on the increased precarity of journalistic work. Authors (drawn from all over the world) analyze precarity by putting the phenomenon within wider contexts of historical change; the rise of new funding models; increased harassment of and risk to journalists; and social and global inequalities more generally. These contextualizations develop the discussion of precarity in new and innovative ways, and urgently links precarity in journalism to the increased precarity of democracy. Highly recommended." – Henrik Örnebring, Professor of Media and Communication, Karlstad University.