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Freelancers in Newspapers Local Editorial Offices - Characteristics, Professional Self-Understanding and Organisational Structures

当地报纸编辑部的自由职业者——特征、职业自我理解和组织结构

基本信息

批准号：
404066328
负责人：
Professorin Dr. Wiebke Möhring
金额：
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依托单位：
Institut für Journalistik
依托单位国家：
德国
项目类别：
Research Grants
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
德国
起止时间：
2017-12-31 至 2020-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/404066328?language=en
关键词：
Freelancers Newspapers Local Editorial Offices

项目摘要

Local news is an important source for user’s orientation in their own environments and the user’s interest in local news is high. The need to be informed about local events and to get oriented in their nearby environments is a high motivation for the use of it. Nevertheless, editorial offices are challenged by recent economic developments of local and regional newspapers. The loss of previous earning models results in cost-cutting measures, which concern predominantly the personnel resources of local editorial offices: Due to these facts number and importance of journalists working as local free-lancers is risen over the last years. The question is under which circumstances these freelancers work in local editorial offices? Who works with whom in which process structures? And who – with which qualification – works as a freelancer in local editorial offices?Results to answer these questions have not yet been provided. It is one goal of the planned research project to provide – for the first time – a comprehensive and detailed overview of the professional characteristics of freelancers in regional and local newspaper journalism (print and online). The second goal is to analyze the organizational integration of freelancers in local editorial offices. To reach those goals, characteristics will be analyzed like educational background, journalistic knowledge and experiences as well as their professional self-understanding and the evaluation of their integration into editorial structures. Furthermore, it will be analyzed which strategies of human resource management and editorial quality management the editorial offices use, which relevance is attributed to it, what impact digital processes and structures have and which practical conceptions of editorial management can be identified.For the theoretical modeling of the project, studies that have dealt with freelancers in local editorial offices as well as freelancers in print journalism, their work conditions and routines as well as self-understanding, and studies researching local citizen journalism will be consulted. In addition, studies of editorial research, editorial management, and results from the wider context of the digitalization of journalistic workflow will be included. A multi-method design will be applied. Heads of the local editorial department will be interviewed with the help of qualitative semi-structured interviews; the freelancers will be questioned with a standardized online questionnaire. Subsequently, the results and interpretations will be discussed with the heads of the local editorial offices for a communicative validation. Besides the expansion of scientific knowledge, the project also generates results that are of socio-political and professional interest: It will produce statements about expectable performances of local journalism and develop recommendations for action.

本地新闻是用户在自己的环境中定位的重要来源，用户对本地新闻的兴趣很高。需要了解当地的事件，并在他们附近的环境中找到方向，这是使用它的一个高度动机。然而，编辑部受到当地和区域报纸最近经济发展的挑战。以前的收入模式的丧失导致了削减成本的措施，这些措施主要涉及当地编辑部的人力资源：由于这些事实，过去几年来，作为当地自由职业者工作的记者的数量和重要性有所增加。问题是，这些自由职业者在什么情况下在当地编辑部工作？谁与谁在哪个流程结构中合作？谁--具有什么资格--在当地编辑部担任自由职业者？尚未提供回答这些问题的结果。计划中的研究项目的目标之一是首次全面详细地概述区域和地方报纸新闻业（印刷和在线）自由职业者的专业特点。第二个目标是分析自由职业者在当地编辑部的组织整合。为了达到这些目标，特征将被分析，如教育背景，新闻知识和经验，以及他们的专业自我理解和评价他们融入编辑结构。此外，还将分析编辑部使用的人力资源管理和编辑质量管理策略，其相关性，数字流程和结构的影响以及编辑管理的实际概念。对于该项目的理论建模，研究涉及当地编辑部的自由职业者以及印刷新闻业的自由职业者，他们的工作条件和惯例以及自我认识，以及研究当地公民新闻的研究将得到参考。此外，编辑研究，编辑管理和新闻工作流程数字化的更广泛背景下的结果的研究将被包括在内。将采用多方法设计。将在定性半结构化访谈的帮助下对当地编辑部负责人进行访谈;将用标准化在线问卷对自由职业者进行询问。随后，将与当地编辑部负责人讨论结果和解释，以进行沟通验证。除了扩大科学知识外，该项目还产生了具有社会政治和专业意义的成果：它将发表关于当地新闻业预期业绩的声明，并提出行动建议。