Diversity through Dualism. The Balancing Principle as an Organizational Strategy in Culture Departments of Newspapers

Jaakkola, Maarit
Allern, Sigurd
Bødker, Henrik
Eide, Martin
Lauk, Epp
Pollack, Ester
2014-11-14T12:57:58Z
2014-11-14T12:57:58Z
2013-12
This article examines the changes in cultural journalism in newspapers with regard to its dual field structure. The influence of media organizations’ policies on professionalist dualism is discussed based on the results of a quantitative content analysis over the period 1978-2008 and semi-structured theme interviews with the heads of the culture departments of major Finnish dailies. The results indicate that culture departments have developed their own news production, with increased managerial control and the strengthening of the journalistic paradigm, whereas opinionated journalism, including criticism, is increasingly outsourced. The culture departments thus aspire to sustain a balance between the profes sional paradigms related to field-hybridity, which creates a distinct structural formalism in this specialized type of journalism and makes its evolution over time relatively stablesv
10 p.sv
Nordicom Review, 34 (Special Issue) p. 89-98sv
978-91-86523-83-1
1403-1108
http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37408
engsv
Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicomsv
cultural journalismsv
art criticismsv
reviewssv
professionalismsv
specializationsv
newspaperssv
Diversity through Dualism. The Balancing Principle as an Organizational Strategy in Culture Departments of Newspaperssv
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article, peer reviewed scientificsv

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