Pioneer Journalism: The re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations

项目A调查了“先锋新闻”作为新闻业及其组织基础重构的主要力量。我们理解先锋新闻包括致力于重新定义该领域的新形式的新闻。这包括来自老牌媒体机构和初创公司的新闻，由加速器支持的新闻，或由个人先驱追求的新闻。先锋新闻学旨在为新闻的生产和传播建立新的模式。媒体和数字技术在这一重构中发挥着至关重要的作用。正如我们的初步研究所表明的那样，存在一个涵盖上述所有内容的松散网络，这个网络有可能形成一个新闻先锋社区的基础。考虑到这一点，A项目的主要研究问题是：先锋新闻在新闻组织基础的重构中扮演了什么角色？从这个起点出发，我们计划从五个分析层面调查德国先锋新闻：首先，通过使用自我描述的内容分析，我们将提供一个在先锋新闻领域发挥重要作用的个体行动者、初创企业、加速器和成熟组织的地图，并提供他们对该领域的看法的概述。其次，我们将对已建立的新闻机构进行媒体人种学研究，以调查他们目前建立新新闻形象的方式。第三，我们将再次通过媒介人种学来调查由创业公司、加速器和个人先锋发起的新组织形象的建立。第四，通过定性网络和Twitter分析，我们将调查先锋记者网络，这个网络有潜力在已建立的媒体组织、初创公司、加速器和个人记者之间创建一个先锋社区。最后，我们将把这些分析层面整合到对新闻业组织基础重构的整体分析中，目的是对新闻业当前转型的模式进行类型化。参考整体计划的目标——即调查深度媒介化时代公共传播的重构——项目A解决了深度媒介化对新闻业组织基础重构的后果是什么？项目A对项目B（关于新闻与受众的关系）和项目C（关于个人与公众的联系）做出了贡献，因为项目A描绘了新闻的主要先锋形式，提供了关于已建立的媒体组织和初创企业的组织基础的信息，并提供了关于用户参与新的新闻和组织形象的信息。

Project A investigates ‘pioneer journalism’ as a principal force in the re-figuration of journalism and its organizational foundations. We understand pioneer journalism to encompass new forms of journalism that are dedicated to re-defining the field. This includes journalism from established media organizations and startups alike, journalism supported by accelerators, or journalism pursued by individual pioneers. Pioneer journalism aims to establish new figurations for the production and distribution of journalism. Media and digital technologies play a crucial role in this re-figuration. As our preliminary research demonstrates, there exists a loose network across all of the above, a network that has the potential to form the basis of a journalistic pioneer community.With this in mind, Project A’s main research question is: what role does pioneer journalism play in the re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations? From this starting point, we plan to investigate German pioneer journalism across five analytical layers: first, through the use of a content analysis of self-descriptions, we will deliver a map of individual actors, startups, accelerators, and established organizations that play an important role in the pioneer journalism space and provide an overview of their perceptions of the field. Second, we will conduct a media ethnography at established news organizations to investigate the ways in which they are currently establishing new journalistic figurations. Third, we will investigate, again through a media ethnography, the establishment of new organizational figurations initiated by startups, accelerators and individual pioneers. Fourth, by way of a qualitative network and Twitter analysis, we will investigate the network of pioneer journalists, a network that has the potential to create a pioneer community across established media organizations, startups, accelerators, and individual journalists. Finally, we will integrate each of these analytical layers into an overall analysis of the re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations with the aim of typifying the patterns of its current transformation.With reference to the overall package’s objectives – that is to investigate the re-figuration of public communication in times of deep mediatization – Project A addresses the question What are the consequences of deep mediatization for the re-figuration of journalism’s organizational foundations? Project A contributes to Project B (on journalism-audience relationships) and to Project C (on individuals’ public connection) through its mapping of the principal pioneering forms of journalism, through the delivery of information on the organizational foundations of established media organizations and start-ups, and by providing information on users’ involvement in new journalistic, organizational figurations.