Watchdogs, advocates and adversaries: journalists' relational role conceptions in asylum reporting
Abstract: Journalistic role conceptions are usually understood as internalised professional conventions about the tasks reporters pursue in society. This study insists that more attention be put on the relational and context-dependent nature of journalistic role conceptions. Adopting a social-interactionist approach to journalistic roles, the study examines how Finnish journalists conceived of their professional roles when covering asylum issues during the so-called "refugee crisis" of 2015-2016. Based on an analysis of open-ended, semi-structured interviews with 24 journalists, we highlight how considerations of the political context and interactions with three key reference groups -officials, asylum seekers and anti-immigrant publics- shaped the journalists' conceptions of their tasks and duties. The article contributes to the study of journalistic role conceptions by illustrating how the conceptualisation of journalistic roles in relation to reference groups takes place in practice. It al
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet (peer reviewed)
In: Media and Communication ; 6 (2018) 2 ; 168-178
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Nachrichtenmedien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen
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Veröffentlichung
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Mannheim
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2018
- Creator
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Pöyhtäri, Reeta
Ojala, Markus
- DOI
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10.17645/mac.v6i2.1284
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-57868-1
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Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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15.08.2025, 7:33 AM CEST
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- Pöyhtäri, Reeta
- Ojala, Markus
Time of origin
- 2018
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