Thomas Hanitzsch
3Roles of Journalists
Abstract: The study of journalistic roles is central to our understanding of journalism’s identity and place in society in a time when journalistic ideals have become more ambivalent and liquid after the turn of the century. The chapter conceptualizes journalistic roles as discursively constituted. As structures of meaning, they set the parameters of what is desirable in the institutional context of journalism. In such a perspective, journalistic roles reflect and articulate journalism’s identity and locus in society on analytically distinct levels: normative and cognitive role orientations, and practiced and narrated role performance. These four categories correspond to conceptually distinct ideas: what ...
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