The Institutions Changing Journalism

Barbarians Inside the Gate

Scott A Eldridge II editor Patrick Ferrucci editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:21st Jul '22

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Bringing together original contributions from a worldwide group of scholars, this book critically explores the changing role and influence of institutions in the production of news.

Drawing from a diverse set of disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds, research paradigms and perspectives, and methodologies, each chapter explores different institutions currently impacting journalism, including government bodies, businesses, technological platforms, and civic organisations. Together they outline how cracks in the autonomy of the journalism industry have allowed for other types of organizations to exert influence over the manner in which journalism is produced, funded, experienced and even conceptualized. Ultimately, this collective work argues for increased research on the impact of outside influences on journalism, while providing a roadmap for future research within journalism studies.

The Institutions Changing Journalism is an invaluable contribution to the field of journalism, media, and communication studies, and will be of interest to scholars and practitioners alike who want to stay up to date with fundamental institutional changes facing in the industry.

"This outstanding volume provides timely and thought-provoking insights into the constantly evolving nature of journalism, the fluid definitions and overlapping roles of occupational outsiders and insiders, and the existential questions practitioners face in navigating between tradition and change. Every chapter offers a fresh perspective on the "received wisdom" of journalism studies about challenges and challengers. Some authors provide unusual takes on the usual suspects, from audiences to native advertisers; others investigate such unexpected "barbarians" as ideological editors, foundations, even academics. Just what is journalism today, and who is a journalist? The answers suggested here are more nuanced, and more interesting, than you might think." – Professor Jane Singer, Professor of Journalism and Innovation, City, University of London

"This collection of essays grapples with a curious but highly consequential fact: since the advent of professional journalism at the turn of the twentieth-century, there has never been more news produced than today, and never less of it by journalists. Over eleven wide-ranging chapters, the authors investigate what happens when journalists who once were able to patrol the boundaries of their field now find themselves cheek-to-jowl with political activists, advertisers, nonprofits, university newsrooms, the "people formerly known as the audience," and technologists, among others. The result is an incisive exploration of how and why the institution of journalism has blurred in the twenty-first century. A must-read for anyone interested in the future of news and the role journalism might play in that future." – Professor David Ryfe, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Iowa

ISBN: 9780367690854

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 458g

200 pages