Resisting Perceived Interference in Journalistic Autonomy: The Study of Public Service Media in Slovakia
Resisting Perceived Interference in Journalistic Autonomy: The Study of Public Service Media in Slovakia
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抵制新闻自主权中的感知干扰：斯洛伐克公共服务媒体研究
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Marína Urbániková
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作者：
Marína Urbániková
自主权对新闻业至关重要，但记者如何科普威胁时，很少有经验为基础的知识。使用案例研究的方法，这方面的贡献探讨了新闻编辑部的冲突，发生在公共服务的广播电视斯洛伐克。它始于2017年议会选出的新总干事，一个被认为与联盟政党之一有联系的人，并在2018年裁员和30多名记者和编辑辞职时达到高潮。该案例研究是基于半结构化的采访（N = 16）与记者谁决定辞职，抗议他们所谓的“蔓延的政治压力”，那些谁的合同没有延长，那些谁决定留在他们的工作，以及成员的前任和新的管理。建立在采访和文件分析，文章归纳开发一个分类方案的阻力的做法，记者用来科普他们的专业自主权，来自他们的媒体组织内部的干扰。这些做法包括进行内部讨论，在新闻编辑室会议上表达关切，给管理层写内部信，与管理层会面，成立工会，要求调解，给观众和听众写公开信，在媒体上公开批评管理层，自愿要求重新分配到另一个主题领域或职位，以避免干扰，继续工作公开反对管理层，辞职以示抗议。
Autonomy is of paramount importance for journalism, but there is little empirically based knowledge of how journalists cope when it is threatened. Using a case study approach, this contribution examines a newsroom conflict that took place in the public service Radio and Television of Slovakia. It started when the new director general, a person believed to have ties to one of the coalition political parties, was elected by the parliament in 2017, and it culminated in layoffs and resignations of more than 30 reporters and editors in 2018. The case study is based on semi-structured interviews (N = 16) with the journalists who decided to quit in protest of what they called “creeping political pressure,” those whose contracts were not prolonged, those who decided to stay at their jobs, and the members of the previous and the new management. Building on the interviews and document analysis, the article inductively develops a classification scheme for resistance practices the journalists used to cope with the perceived interference with their professional autonomy that came from within their media organisation. These practices include having internal discussions, voicing concerns during newsroom meetings, writing an internal letter to the management, meeting with the management, establishing a trade union, requesting mediation, writing an open letter to the viewers and listeners, publicly criticising the management in the media, voluntarily asking to be re-assigned to another topic area or position in order to avoid interference, staying at one’s job in open opposition to the management, and resigning in protest.