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Populist disseminators, detached watchdogs, critical change agents and opportunist facilitators: Professional milieus, the journalistic field and autonomy in 18 countries
Abstract
This article sets out to map the journalistic field as a space of struggle between distinct professional milieus. These milieus crystallize around journalists who share similar views on journalism’s function in society. By means of cluster analysis, four global professional milieus were extracted from the survey responses of 1800 journalists in 18 countries: the populist disseminator, detached watchdog, critical change agent and the opportunist facilitator. The detached watchdog milieu clearly dominates the journalistic field in most western countries, while the milieu of the opportunist facilitator reigns supreme in several developing, transitional and authoritarian contexts. In accordance with the theoretical propositions, relatively little professional autonomy was found in contexts with rather strong corporate and commercial influences. However, a more universal approach would need to go beyond corporate and commercial factors in order to account for the realities of the journalistic field in non-western countries.
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- Authors
- Hanitzsch, T.
- Venue
- International Communication Gazette
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2011-10
- Volume
- 73
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 477-494
- ISSN
- 1748-0485 (ISSN-L)
- 1748-0493
- OpenAlex
- W2022505181
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- 332
- References
- 20
- FWCI
- 40.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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