TY - JOUR
T1 - Mutatis mutandis? The stably evolving Portuguese journalism
AU - Novais, Rui Alexandre
N1 - Funding Information:
Originally planned as a pilot project and fielded in 2007-2011, it has carried out interviews with 2.100 journalists from more than 400 news organizations in 21 countries. As in the larger project, interviews in Portugal at the time were conducted with a quota sample of 100 working journalists drawn from 20 news organizations, comprising five professionals in each newsroom which had some “editorial responsibility” for the produced content. Furthermore, the interviewed comprised journalists from different types of media: national and local/regional ones; public, state-owned or private; quality (citizen-oriented) and popular (consumer-oriented). The pilot questionnaires started being carried out in 2010 but were mostly finished in 2011. A grant received the Science Foundation in Portugal, provided the funds that contributed to the research outcome.
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2018 SBPjor / Associação Brasileira de Pesquisa-dores em Jornalismo.
PY - 2018/8
Y1 - 2018/8
N2 - This article offers a diachronic comparative examination of the different dimensions regarding the Portuguese journalists’ role conceptions, autonomy, trust in social institutions, influences, as well as ideology. Based on more than 500 interviews over a five year period, it corroborates the state of change of journalism as a result of the combined technological innovation impact and market-related considerations, which amounts to a sub-stantive deterioration of the working conditions in the profession, its public credibility and ethical standards. However, and above all, it also concludes that the statistically significant but rather selective and modest changes found validate a general trend of stability in Portuguese journalists self-perception in line with the theory of homogeneity across time.
AB - This article offers a diachronic comparative examination of the different dimensions regarding the Portuguese journalists’ role conceptions, autonomy, trust in social institutions, influences, as well as ideology. Based on more than 500 interviews over a five year period, it corroborates the state of change of journalism as a result of the combined technological innovation impact and market-related considerations, which amounts to a sub-stantive deterioration of the working conditions in the profession, its public credibility and ethical standards. However, and above all, it also concludes that the statistically significant but rather selective and modest changes found validate a general trend of stability in Portuguese journalists self-perception in line with the theory of homogeneity across time.
KW - Changes in journalism
KW - Homogeneity across time
KW - Longitudinal analysis
KW - Portuguese journalism
KW - WOJ
KW - Jornalismo português
KW - WOJ
KW - Homogeneização ao longo do tempo
KW - Análise longitudinal
KW - Mudanças no jornalismo
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85054754817&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.25200/BJR.v14n2.2018.1086
DO - 10.25200/BJR.v14n2.2018.1086
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85054754817
SN - 1808-4079
VL - 14
SP - 342
EP - 363
JO - Brazilian Journalism Research
JF - Brazilian Journalism Research
IS - 2
ER -