Fantasy,Pragmatism and Journalistic Socialisation: UK Journalism Students’ Aspirations and Motivations

ABSTRACT

Despite the sustained growth in journalism as a choice of degree path for young people, our understanding of students’ aspirations and motivations remains relatively underdeveloped. At the same time, journalism careers appear increasingly uncertain, as the industry responds to digitalisation and convergence. In this mixed-methods study – employing 35 interviews and a survey of 837 UK journalism students – we ask what areas of journalism do students aspire towards, how do they feel about their future career prospects, and what is motivating them to study journalism in the first place? We find that intrinsic motivations (calling and talent, dynamic job) prevail over public service ones, with students drawn to soft news beats over hard news. Aspirations are also strikingly gendered, opening up questions of journalism education in this process. We also find that while students articulate an aspirational career in respected media outlets, they are pragmatic about their immediate career prospects. Here, journalism education appears to play a significant role in socialising students towards careers beyond journalism. Findings are discussed in the light of ongoing debates around journalistic socialisation and the future of journalism.     

浅析如何正确评价“黄色新闻”

长期以来,由于对＂黄色新闻＂运作手法的诟病,传媒界很多学者对＂黄色新闻＂持全盘否定态度,本文拟通过对＂黄色新闻＂出现的社会历史背景及其对现代媒体的积极影响进行客观分析,从而对＂黄色新闻＂作出客观评价。     

租界社会与近代天津新闻事业的发展

租界社会与近代天津新闻事业的发展密切相关。租界的移民社会为报刊发展提供了广泛的读者群;租界繁荣的商业环境培植了传播媒介的生长点;租界内传播渠道的多样化与先进的传播手段,提升了媒介传播速度。九国租界的存在,为近代天津新闻事业提供了发展契机和相对有利的客观环境。     

2019年中国的新闻学研究

本文从近30种中文学术期刊(包括港台地区)遴选出在问题意识、研究视角、论证方法等方面较为创新的新闻学研究原创文章,并从媒介转型、新闻从业者研究、新闻与社会记忆研究、技术视角下的中国新闻业、作为公民与用户的受众、新闻基础理论研究、报刊史与近代政治以及新闻学科建设与反思等八个话题对相关文献加以回顾。研究发现,2019年中国的新闻学研究主要呈现为四个特征:一是围绕新闻行业生态变革的重要研究议题涉及面较广,比较亮眼的研究是以新的理论视角观照中国语境下的本土实践;二是对中国新闻从业者与新闻受众的不少研究表现出明显的社会学取向,阶层特征、群体分化、角色冲突以及管辖权成为主要的概念切入点;三是新闻理论研究兼顾对经典新闻理念的反思与新兴新闻实践及其理论化现状的引介;四是报刊史研究注重在专门史与近代政治史的脉络和问题框架中组织材料与观点,试图开拓研究视野从而避免内卷化的学术意图比较明确。     

Deep Participation in Underserved Communities: A Quantitative Analysis of Hearken’s Model for Engagement Journalism

ABSTRACT

Hearken is a proprietary news engagement platform growing in popularity. Under the Hearken approach, audience members are invited to participate in the newsmaking process. Hearken strives to assist news organizations in providing local and hyperlocal content that meets audience needs and demands while preserving elements of the journalist’s role as gatekeeper. Hearken has also worked to help news organizations reach underrepresented populations with mixed results per its own anecdotal analyses. This study employs a quantitative content analysis comparing one year’s worth of coverage at four different local NPR affiliates in the United States to provide a breakdown of Hearken content versus traditional reporter-driven content in the following four categories: emphasis on hyperlocal coverage, story topic prevalence within local and hyperlocal coverage, emphasis on coverage of underrepresented communities, and story topic prevalence within coverage of underrepresented communities. Findings reveal listener-driven Hearken content favors hyperlocal news on lifestyle issues while reporter-driven stories emphasize state-level governance and politics as well as local crime. These indicate a stark contrast between the content audiences want and that which journalists tend to report. The nuanced normative implications, possibilities and limitations of Hearken’s model of “deep participation” are addressed in some detail.     

从人才市场需求变化看广播电视新闻专业人才培养方案修订的必要性

人才培养方案的修订应以培养学生实践能力为重点,以提高学生就业率为向导,跟踪传媒产业动向,适时调整和完善教学内容。实行规范管理,科学有序地促使广播电视新闻专业健康发展。     

从公共新闻到公民新闻——互联网语境下公共新闻事业的新发展

从20世纪80年代末到本世纪初,随互联网的普及遂使新闻传播发生了质的变化。对新出现的公民新闻的性质及其社会利害,学界虽尚无定论,但其无疑是“公共新闻事业“理念的延伸。对这一新的公共新闻形式的发展状况及基本理念进行梳理和分析,进而探索公民新闻与公共新闻之间的联系,为今后新媒体时代公其新闻与公民事业的发展架构桥梁。     

中国近代新闻史研究三题

中国近代新闻史研究既要注重史料的考释,又要侧重学理的阐述。就目前而言,研究范围的界定与研究视野的拓展并不矛盾;探究报刊等传媒与中国近代文化转型的关系是中国近代新闻史教学与研究的焦点;中国近代新闻史研究既要有宏观视野,又要从微观层面来考察。     

The Itinerary to Explore Headwaters of the New Left’s Cultural Studies

Abstract

The 1980s was a period when the academic current for leisure studies led to the birth of the study of sports history. Japan was not a latecomer in this scholarly stream. More significantly, cultural issues were thought not the part of various phenomena in a society, but the key issues for class integration and class strife. After writing my PhD thesis on Pierce Egan, one of the earliest sport journalists influenced by the idea of early radicals in the nineteenth-century Britain, my attention turned over to the question of why the study of sport history was necessary. There was the academic impact inherited from the New Left’s belief that ‘without understanding the state of people’s culture, class issues are unable to be truly comprehended’. The Initiation of sport journalism had a similar destiny. This consequence appears to be a synchroflash between the early radicals’ concern in popular culture in the nineteenth century and the New Left’s interest in cultural studies in the twentieth century. There was an obvious reason why the radical essayists and contemporary academics had to pay attention to the ‘cultural turn’ with critical thinking in a society.     

新时期广播电视新闻学专业实践教学模式的探索

本文拟通过对广播电视新闻学专业怎样建立一个以“学生实践拉动学习渴求“为基本出发点、以“全面提高学生的媒介素养和社会责任感“为基本原则的“有效的实战模式“的探索,就当前对新闻教育怎样实现新突破进行讨论.