Beyond journalistic norms : role performance and news in comparative perspective / edited by Claudia Mellado.

Beyond Journalistic Norms contests and challenges pre-established assumptions about a dominant type of journalism prevailing in different political, economic, and geographical contexts to posit the fluid, and dynamic nature of journalistic roles. The book brings together scholars from Western and Eastern Europe, North America, Latin America, and Asia, reporting findings based on data collected from democratic, transitional, and non-democratic contexts to produce thematic chapters that address how journalistic cultures vary around the globe, specifically in relation to challenges that journalists face in performing their journalistic roles. The study measures, compares, and analyzes the materialization of the interventionist, the watchdog, the loyal-facilitator, the service, the infotainment, and the civic roles in more than 30,000 print news stories from 18 countries. It also draws from hundreds of surveys with journalists to explain the link between ideals and practices, and the conditions that shape this divide. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and researchers working in the fields of journalism, journalism practices, philosophy of journalism, sociology of media, and comparative journalism research.

Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PART I. PROFESSIONAL ROLES AND JOURNALISTIC ROLE PERFORMANCE. 1. Journalistic Role Performance and the News / Claudia Mellado -- 2. Theorizing Journalistic Roles: Opening New Avenues for Journalism Studies / Claudia Mellado -- 3. Assessing Journalistic Role Performance Cross-Nationally: Comparative Design and Methodology / Claudia Mellado, Jacques Mick, and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- PART II. THE MANIFESTATION OF JOURNALISTIC ROLE PERFORMANCE IN THE NEWS. 4. Mapping Professional Roles in News Content across 18 countries: A Descriptive Overview / Claudia Mellado, Adriana Amado, Sergey Davydov, María Luisa Humanes, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Jacques Mick, Cornelia Mothes, Dasniel Olivera, Nikos S. Panagiotou, Svetlana Pasti, Patric Raemy, Sergio Roses, Anna-Maria Schielicke, Henry Silke, Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, and Edson Tandoc. -- 5. Journalistic Voice: The Performance of the Interventionist Role / Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, Adriana Amado, and Henry Silke -- 6. Power Relations: The Performance of the Watchdog and Loyal-Facilitator Roles / Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, Sergio Roses, Dasniel Olivera, and Henry Silke -- 7. Audience Approach: The Performance of the Civic, Infotainment and Service Roles / María Luisa Humanes and Sergio Roses -- PART III. EXPLAINING JOURNALISTIC ROLE PERFORMANCE. 8. Measuring the Link between Professional Role Conceptions, Perceived Role Enactment, and Journalistic Role Performance across Countries / Claudia Mellado and Cornelia Mothes -- 9. Journalistic Role Performance: A News-story-Level Approach / Edson Tandoc, Patric Raemy, Setlana Pasti, and Nikos Panagiotou -- 10. Journalistic Role Performance: An Organizational-Level Approach / Cornelia Mothes, Anna-Maria Schielicke, and Patric Raemy -- 11. Journalistic Role Performance: A Societal-Level Approach / Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, Cornelia Mothes, and Mireya Márquez-Ramírez -- 12. Beyond Journalistic Norms: Empirical Lessons on Role Performance in the News / Claudia Mellado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez, María Luisa Humanes, Adriana Amado, Sergey Davydov, Jacques Mick, Cornelia Mothes, Dasniel Olivera, Nikos S. Panagiotou, Svetlana Pasti, Patric Raemy, Sergio Roses, Anna-Maria Schielicke, Henry Silke, Agnieszka Stępińska, Gabriella Szabó, and Edson Tandoc. -- Appendices -- Index.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.