No sooner had the Leveson Inquiry opened in 2011 than journalists and politicians were warning of a 'chilling effect' on the willingness of the press to continue using informal avenues to research stories. A particular fear was that tougher regulation might deter newspapers from using off-the-record briefings - and occasional subterfuge - to legitimately investigate public-interest issues that would go unreported if they relied solely on official channels. But a wider concern was that a putative 'Leveson effect' could also discourage both journalists and sources from engaging in the day-to-day communications on which newspapers relied for routine content. Drawing on first-hand testimony from practising local journalists, this article argues that, while there is early anecdotal evidence for some chilling at the grassroots, this is affecting sources more than journalists. Moreover, their concerns are based on a (perhaps wilful) 'scapegoating' of Leveson for other factors hampering their relations with reporters: notably, longer-term institutional moves to regulate their relations with journalists and, perhaps more significantly, financial cutbacks.
{"title":"Chilling at the grassroots? The impact of the Leveson Inquiry on journalist-source relations and the reporting of the powerful at local level","authors":"James Morrison","doi":"10.1386/ajms.6.1.17_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms.6.1.17_1","url":null,"abstract":"No sooner had the Leveson Inquiry opened in 2011 than journalists and politicians were warning of a 'chilling effect' on the willingness of the press to continue using informal avenues to research stories. A particular fear was that tougher regulation might deter newspapers from using off-the-record briefings - and occasional subterfuge - to legitimately investigate public-interest issues that would go unreported if they relied solely on official channels. But a wider concern was that a putative 'Leveson effect' could also discourage both journalists and sources from engaging in the day-to-day communications on which newspapers relied for routine content. Drawing on first-hand testimony from practising local journalists, this article argues that, while there is early anecdotal evidence for some chilling at the grassroots, this is affecting sources more than journalists. Moreover, their concerns are based on a (perhaps wilful) 'scapegoating' of Leveson for other factors hampering their relations with reporters: notably, longer-term institutional moves to regulate their relations with journalists and, perhaps more significantly, financial cutbacks.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131555989","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Missing the Biggest Story - The UK Regional Press After Leveson","authors":"T. Clark","doi":"10.1386/ajms.6.1.57_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms.6.1.57_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"246 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134109395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a theory of ‘haktology’","authors":"Leon Barkho","doi":"10.1386/AJMS.6.1.3_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AJMS.6.1.3_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132927479","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The British local and regional press after Leveson","authors":"Vera Slavtcheva-Petkova","doi":"10.1386/ajms.6.1.11_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms.6.1.11_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130256331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article analyses a special case to illustrate paradigmatic rectification in news production that took place at the turn of the century. The special case concerns Tony Burman, a former head of ...
{"title":"Burman’s news model : How to do journalism in the twenty-first century","authors":"Leon Barkho","doi":"10.1386/AJMS.5.3.485_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AJMS.5.3.485_1","url":null,"abstract":"This article analyses a special case to illustrate paradigmatic rectification in news production that took place at the turn of the century. The special case concerns Tony Burman, a former head of ...","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114386824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysing analytics: How journalists’ role conceptions influence how they use audience metrics","authors":"Edson C. Tandoc, Mike Jenner","doi":"10.1386/AJMS.5.3.423_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AJMS.5.3.423_1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134412401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journalistic work and organizations are currently undergoing rapid change. One of the most striking features of this transformation seems to be an increasing influence of managerial discourse in the newsroom. Editorial leadership is proving to be more professionalized, standardized and accentuated than before, which could affect journalistic autonomy and status. In this article we investigate the shifting power balance in news production by focusing on the management–staff relationship in Swedish newspapers and discussing the possible consequences of this development for the professional autonomy and status of journalists. Empirical support is drawn from two national surveys of Swedish journalists and a small interview study of Swedish newspaper journalists, and the data is analysed within a framework of professional and organizational theory. The results indicate a move towards managerial dominance in the newsroom during the last decade, but also that journalists to some extent seem to approve of this development. Even so, the results may be another indication of a de-professionalization of journalists to the benefit of the managerial group in the news business. The article aims at contributing to a further understanding of the changing organizational behaviour of news companies and how journalism practices in the newsroom are being challenged by an excessive growth of managerialism, which not only inhibit and limit journalistic professionalism, but also leads to a loss of democracy.
{"title":"Managing the newsroom: perceptions of influence and control among Swedish newspaper professionals","authors":"Jenny Wiik, Ulrika Andersson","doi":"10.1386/AJMS.5.3.465_1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1386/AJMS.5.3.465_1","url":null,"abstract":"Journalistic work and organizations are currently undergoing rapid change. One of the most striking features of this transformation seems to be an increasing influence of managerial discourse in the newsroom. Editorial leadership is proving to be more professionalized, standardized and accentuated than before, which could affect journalistic autonomy and status. In this article we investigate the shifting power balance in news production by focusing on the management–staff relationship in Swedish newspapers and discussing the possible consequences of this development for the professional autonomy and status of journalists. Empirical support is drawn from two national surveys of Swedish journalists and a small interview study of Swedish newspaper journalists, and the data is analysed within a framework of professional and organizational theory. The results indicate a move towards managerial dominance in the newsroom during the last decade, but also that journalists to some extent seem to approve of this development. Even so, the results may be another indication of a de-professionalization of journalists to the benefit of the managerial group in the news business. The article aims at contributing to a further understanding of the changing organizational behaviour of news companies and how journalism practices in the newsroom are being challenged by an excessive growth of managerialism, which not only inhibit and limit journalistic professionalism, but also leads to a loss of democracy.","PeriodicalId":119349,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies","volume":"135 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120881732","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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