TY - JOUR
T1 - How do journalists cope? Conspiracy in the everyday production of political news
AU - Boswell, John
AU - Corbett, Jack
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - Journalism as we know it is said to be under existential threat brought about by a combination of corporatisation and technological change. This has led some scholars to ask whether it can survive. The dominant account is one of under-resourced newsrooms that are at best incapable of adapting and at worst guilty of cynically abandoning professional standards. This article challenges these empirical claims, but at the same time affirms the normative concern underpinning them. In our case - a conspiracy of high politics - journalists do not just report political news but they conspire in its outcome. So, by changing the mode of inquiry we also change the question; not can journalism survive, but how do journalists cope.
AB - Journalism as we know it is said to be under existential threat brought about by a combination of corporatisation and technological change. This has led some scholars to ask whether it can survive. The dominant account is one of under-resourced newsrooms that are at best incapable of adapting and at worst guilty of cynically abandoning professional standards. This article challenges these empirical claims, but at the same time affirms the normative concern underpinning them. In our case - a conspiracy of high politics - journalists do not just report political news but they conspire in its outcome. So, by changing the mode of inquiry we also change the question; not can journalism survive, but how do journalists cope.
U2 - 10.1080/10361146.2016.1143447
DO - 10.1080/10361146.2016.1143447
M3 - Article
SN - 1036-1146
VL - 51
SP - 308
EP - 322
JO - Australian Journal of Political Science
JF - Australian Journal of Political Science
IS - 2
ER -