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- Andersson, Ulrika, 1977, et al.
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JOURNALISM MEETS MANAGEMENT: Changing Leadership in Swedish News Organizations
- 2013
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Ingår i: Journalism Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1751-2786 .- 1751-2794. ; 7:6, s. 705-719
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The development of news production over the last decade has accentuated the negotiation between two forces of change: professional discourse and managerial discourse. The first characterizes journalistic identity by normative ideals and serves to legitimize journalists as an autonomous and self-regulating group. Managerial discourse, on the other hand, expresses the globalization of values and economy in the labour market, as well as in the area of communication, streamlining organizational models, and suggesting a business thinking common to several industries, in addition to an evolving view of the individual as an entrepreneur. Managerialism has implications for all levels of news work and, above all, emphasizes audience orientation, as the will of the audience becomes imperative. It promotes a form of leadership rather new to Scandinavian news organizations by strongly bringing the key values of profit and efficiency to the negotiating table. This article focuses on the constant negotiation between discourses by drawing empirical support from three survey studies of editors-in-chief and journalists in Sweden. It describes how editors-in-chief perceive their own role to be changing and why, and attempts to relate the new forms of leadership to current professional developments in journalism.
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- Andersson, Ulrika, 1977, et al.
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New Demands on Editorial Leadership: Perceived Changes in Swedish Newspaper Management
- 2014
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Ingår i: OBS - Observatorio. - 1646-5954. ; 8:2
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Last decades development of news production has accentuated the need for increased managerial skills among editorial leaders. This need is followed by discursive notions connecting management levels across sectors, also the sector of news production. The managerial ideology features globalization of values and economy in the labour market, as well as in the area of communication, and promotes streamlining of organizational models in line with a business thinking common to several industries. This kind of management ideology has implications for all levels of news work and, above all, emphasizes audience orientation to a further extent than before. Our article focuses on how editorial leaders in Sweden perceive their own role as leaders to be changing and why. It does so by drawing empirical support from a mixed methods design of three surveys of editors-in-chief in Sweden, conducted in 2005, 2010, and 2011. The result reveals that editorial leaders are strongly embracing values characterised by managerialism by bringing the key values of profit, efficiency and leadership into the newsroom. They also perceive their managerial influence to have increased in the newsroom. As this kind of leadership is rather new to Scandinavian news media, the article discusses what kind of implications this new form of leadership may have for news organizations in the facing of new challenges.
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- Andersson, Ulrika, 1977, et al.
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Synen på journalistikens drivkrafter
- 2012
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Ingår i: Svenska journalister 1980-2011 / Kent Asp (red.). - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789188212511 ; , s. 61-66
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- De senaste decenniernas omvandling av medielandskapet har inneburit en förändrad situation för de flesta medieföretag. Ökad marknadsorientering framdriven av ökad konkurrens, framväxten av nya kommersiella mediekanaler, ny teknik och långtgående avregleringar är exempel på faktorer som har haft avgörande konsekvenser för journalistisk praxis och ideologi. Dessa faktorer har också påverkat betoningen av de olika drivkrafter som styr det redaktionella arbetet. Kapitlet studerar hur journalister upplever att drivkrafterna för den journalistiska verksamheten har förändrats under den senaste tioårsperioden.
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- Djerf-Pierre, Monika, 1961, et al.
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Journalistiken och journalisterna
- 2012
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Ingår i: Medierna och demokratin. - Lund : Studentlitteratur. - 9789144076669 ; , s. 175-204
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wiik, Jenny, 1975
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Journalism in Transition. The professional Identity of Swedish Journalists
- 2010
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Is journalism going through ‘de-professionalization’ or is it just entering a new phase – taking a different shape? And what is the meaning of professional ideals such as scrutiny and autonomy in these processes? In my thesis, “Journalism in Transition”, I discuss these matters, focusing on the case of Swedish journalists. Empirical support is drawn from a national survey conducted five times since 1989 on the Dept. of Journalism, Media and Communication at the University Gothenburg (JMG). Questions about journalists’ perceptions of various ideals offer excellent opportunities to explore possible homogenization vs. fragmentation, and what the attitudinal dimensions actually say about the professional content of Swedish journalism. The results are analyzed by the conceptualization of Bourdieu’s field theory, along with current professional theory, and point at a possible separation of professional levels where a few ideals constitute an over-arching professional identity, while the flora of attitudes below is more diverse and dependent on factors of organizational affiliation, gender and age. Professional ideals may furthermore be regarded as a form of symbolic capital, used as legitimizing tools in journalism’s struggle for maintaining status quo. A main conclusion is that journalism is not de-professionalizing on ideological level, but going through a re-formation. Traditional journalistic ideals have attained increasing support over time and the efforts to fix professional boundaries are fierce. These boundaries are, however, subjects of negotiation: In the professional identity formation of Swedish journalists between 1989-2005 I also detect and increasing orientation towards liberal- and market values, which I interpret as the incorporation of organizational values into the professional identity – thereby legitimizing those. A second conclusion is that social attributes such as gender, age and formal qualifications mean less to the professional identity formation in 2005 than they did in 1989. The reason for this is the increasing homogenization of journalistic ideals – all journalists think increasingly alike, no matter social background. Factors still being highly relevant, though, are gender, journalistic training and place of work. Those factors determine journalists’ positions in the field and consequently form their professional identities into various shapes.
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- Wiik, Jenny, 1975, et al.
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JOURNALISM MEETS MANAGEMENT Changing leadership in Swedish news organisations
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Ingår i: The Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff 8-9 sep 2011.
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Last decade’s development of news production has accentuated the negotiation between two forces of change; the professional discourse and the managerial discourse: The first characterizes the journalistic identity by normative ideals and serves to legitimize journalists as an autonomous and self-regulating group. The managerial discourse, on the other hand, expresses globalization of values and economy in the labour-market, as well as in the area of communication; streamlining organisational models, suggesting a business thinking common to several industries, in addition to an evolving view of the individual as an entrepreneur. Managerialism has implications to all levels of news work and, above all, emphasizes audience orientation as the will of the audience becomes imperative. It promotes a form of leadership rather new to news organisations, by so strongly bringing the key values of profit and efficiency to the negotiating table. This negotiation is a challenge to journalism as it used to be; but could it also be a fruitful turning point to something new? Our paper takes off from this question together with empirical evidence from a survey study of managing editors in Sweden, conducted in 2010. It describes how they perceive their own role to be changing and why, and attempts to relate the new forms of leadership to current professional development of journalism. The paper is part of a larger study aiming to understand the interplay between the discourses, and the result will be analysed within the framework of professional and managerial theory.
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- Wiik, Jenny, 1975
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Möt mig!
- 2010
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Ingår i: Barn och unga i den digitala mediekulturen. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 9789189471900 ; , s. 85-87
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Wiik, Jenny, 1975
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Towards the Liberal Model. The Professional Identity of Swedish Journalists
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journalism Practice. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1751-2786 .- 1751-2794. ; 8:5, s. 660-669
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Despite the current insecurity within the journalistic profession, there is still some common ground uniting news workers: a shared perception of the role of journalism in Western societies—a social agreement between journalists, media owners and audiences as to what is good journalism. Research has shown that this role rests heavily upon notions of journalists as watchdogs of democracy, and sometimes as pedagogues and interpreters of complex events. However, this role is not static in any sense; it changes along with the news industry and the surrounding society. The question is, how? This article addresses this question by examining the case of Swedish journalists. Empirical support is drawn from the Swedish Journalist Survey, which has been conducted on five occasions between 1989 and 2011, thus providing a unique opportunity to follow changes to a journalistic community over time. The results indicate the far-reaching adaptability of Swedish journalists to new conditions; a liberalization of ideals, such that ideals of objectivity and neutrality are strengthening at a rather quick pace. However, the results also show how they close ranks behind the watchdog ideal, which could be interpreted as an act of resistance.
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