This book provides a rich exploration of how concepts of contemporary journalistic professionalism are understood, articulated, and taught by journalism educators in higher education settings in the UK.
Drawing on in-depth interviews with HE journalism instructors, the author identifies the key themes and drivers behind definitions of journalistic professionalism and considers how these shape the way journalists and journalism educators are perceived and perceive themselves, as well as who they understand their audiences to be. Readers will examine how the changing media environment in which journalists operate impacts the way their role is defined and how, by considering different ethical and philosophical perspectives, journalism can be considered both a profession and a trade. Building on theoretical frameworks and critiques of The Four Theories of the Press and Social Responsibility Theory, this book points to the overarching importance of academization in debates concerning characteristics of contemporary journalism practice.
Journalistic Professionalism in Higher Education is recommended reading for advanced students and researchers working at the intersection of journalism education and professional identity.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Chapter One
- The contemporary media environment: Its impact on trust and engagement
- Covid-19 to AI
- Notions of journalistic professionalism in current pedagogy
- Research hypothesis
- Methodology
- Data collection
- Using evaluation in analysis
- Ethical considerations
- Research design
- Research participants
- List of references
Chapter Two
- Social responsibility, ethics and professionalism
- Defining journalistic professionalism holistically
- Determinate and indeterminate professions
- The routine/non-routine dichotomy
- Social responsibility and journalistic gatekeeping
- The professional milieus
- What is 'good' journalism?
- List of references
Chapter Three
- Journalistic professionalism: Key themes
- Academization and professionalism
- Academization and notions of journalistic professionalism
- Organizational professionalism
- The existential journalist
- The Ethical theme in normative practice
- Professionalism and the 'practice versus theory' dichotomy in journalism education
- A practice-centred approach
- Leveson and ethics in journalism education
- List of references
Chapter Four
- Research participants and interview questions
- Perspectives on academization
- Defining journalistic professionalism
- List of references
Chapter Five
- The Cognitive-Organizational theme
- Professionalism and ethics
- Alternative terminology
- Field experience and academic rigour
- List of references
Chapter Six
- The Evaluative-Existential theme
- Social responsibility and professionalism
- What is a journalist?
- Personal experience
- External perspectives
- List of references
Chapter Seven
- The Normative-Ethical theme
- Standards of practice and ethics
- Ethics in journalism education
- List of references
Chapter Eight
- Conclusion
- Research aim
- The ongoing existential challenges to journalistic professionalism
- Themes in journalistic professionalism
- Normative practice and Social Responsibility Theory
- Autonomy as a notion of professionalism
- 'Doing as you are told'
- Social responsibility as a feature of journalistic professionalism
- Experience informing journalism learning and teaching
- Adapting journalism learning and teaching to address diminishing levels of trust in the field
- Towards a new definition of journalistic professionalism
- Societal service and the commercial imperative
- The journalist as 'insider-outsider'
- List of references
