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SPECIAL REPORT: Causes for concern: The state of New Zealand journalism in 2015
Pacific Journalism Review
This survey of NZ journalists completed in late 2015 shows the impact of the rapid move to a digital news environment. Journalists are more educated, but working longer hours and feeling more pressure, both ethically and resource-wise, than they were only two years ago. Technological changes are felt acutely, particularly the use of social media and user-generated content. Journalists are concerned that advertising and commercial pressures are stronger, while overall standards are weakening. This study also shows, for the first time, that women are seriously disadvantaged in pay and promotion despite making up the majority of the workforce. Despite these challenges, overall job satisfaction remains at similar levels to previous surveys, and journalists’ own commitment to ethical standards and journalism’s Fourth Estate role remains strong.
Underpaid, under-trained, under-resourced, unsure about the future -but still idealistic* This survey (n=514) updates and extends previous surveys of New Zealand journalists, by measuring attitudes to resourcing, news coverage, ethics and standards, changing technology, ownership and other topics. Reasonably broad coverage of print, broadcast and internet journalists was achieved. Low pay and a lack of support and training, rather than staff numbers, were the standout concerns. Most respondents believed coverage of local, political, business and features was good, while sports achieved the highest rating and foreign coverage the lowest. Respondents generally rated ethics and standards as important, and while they had concerns about sensationalism, they did not seek more regulation. They considered the media was generally performing its watchdog role well, but had concerns about the impact of decreasing resources (especially staff numbers, levels of experience, and time to develop indepth investigations) on that watchdog role, as well as the impact of changing technology, commercial and advertising pressures. They were evenly divided between antagonism and tolerance in their stances towards public relations. Respondents' political views were generally neutral or slightly left. There were significant differences across gender, job status, employer and age in many of the results. Demographic data suggest the workforce is becoming more feminised, (as earlier surveys have suggested), with disproportionate numbers of younger women and older men, and an apparent pay disparity between males and females. ABSTRACT
Special 20th anniversary issue: The challenges facing journalism today
Journalism
This is a special time for Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism as we celebrate our 20th anniversary. When the first issue came out in 2000, we envisaged that the journal would provide an opportunity for an expanding community of established scholars who did not yet have a home for their work and for new academics who were looking for one. We hope we have come some way towards fulfilling that vision over the past 20 years. We like to think that some measure of that is our increase from 3 issues a year to our current 12 issues a year and Journalism's high impact factor. In the first issue of Journalism (2000), our concern was to focus on the relatively new field, prompting the question 'What is journalism studies?' Prominent scholars in the field provided a series of insightful essays exploring both the past and the future of journalism studies. Our 10th anniversary issue in 2009 looked ahead by asking 'What is the future of journalism?' At the time, we noted that journalism [was] expected to wither in an age of financial volatility, decreased revenues, porous borders, layoffs and buyouts, chipped prestige, diminished audiences, concerns about physical safety and variable content. Conversely, it [was also] expected to flourish: information abounds and is more accessible than ever before, the varieties of content and form are unequalled in history, and more people are involved than at any other point in time as both journalism's producers and its consumers. The task of auguring the future [came] against these conflicting sets of expectations about journalism's next stage of development.
2017
An Introduction to Journalism is an introduction to the landscape of the journalism profession. It discusses the profession’s principles, its main tenets, its products, the products’ elements and their determinants, target consumers, and its challenges. It introduces students to the practices and rigor of gathering information, processing them into news the public can use, choosing the right channel for dissemination, and, reaching and collecting feedback from the receiver. This text book is packaged from notes prepared for ‘An introduction to journalism course’ for L200 students at African University College of Communications, complete with a glossary of commonly used industry terms and self-assessment exercises that engage the reader with the issues, and help them develop a framework for dealing with such concerns in their own reporting experience.
Australian Studies in Journalism
, until 2000. It did not appear in 2001, except as an incorporation in the older title, Australian Journalism Review. Because Professor Henningham was going on study leave in 2001 and because the Department of Journalism was becoming part of a School of Journalism and Communication, he decided to offer it to the Journalism Education Association (JEA). To the disappointment of some journalism educators, the JEA decided to incorporate ASJ into Australian Journalism Review. Later, at the initiation of JEA president Dr Kerry Green, the JEA called for expressions of interest in reviving ASJ. Fittingly, we believe, the University of Queensland was the successful bidder. Grant Dobinson, Steve McIlwaine and I mounted that bid and this journal is the result. Professor Henningham resigned from the University of Queensland at the conclusion of his study leave. The current editorial panel pays tribute to Professor Henningham's work in establishing ASJ and maintaining a journal of distinction for nine years. We labelled this issue 'Number 10/11, 2001-2002' to avoid a perpetual search for the 'missing' 2000 issue. Although the current issue is not everything the editorial panel envisaged when members brainstormed in the final months of 2001 and early in 2002, it is as good as we could make it in the time available to us and in the context of the pressures of university life in the 21st century. We were delighted to receive 20 articles for consideration and we have used 10 of those articles. As stated in our style guide the emphasis is on research, rather than teaching, and the articles selected reflect this emphasis. ASJ has a special research tradition, reinforced by publication of the Australian journalism research index (see Numbers 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8). The research index returns in this issue, thanks to the hard work of University of Queensland postgraduate student, Tomoko Sakai, and editorial-panel member Grant Dobinson. Another regular feature of ASJ, "News Media Chronicle", does not appear in this issue. I was unable to find time to write it in the form that has become a tradition. Much of the press-related material that would have found its way into "News Media Chronicle" appears in the Australian Newspaper History Newsletter that now appears five times a year.
Print Media and Journalism in New Zealand
Media Studies in Aotearoa/New Zealand, 2010
Print media is dead! At least that is what many ‘pundits’ continue to argue. But, if that is the case, why is Rupert Murdoch, managing director of media conglomerate News Corporation, still buying up so many newspapers around the world? And, if print media have become so inconsequential, then why even study them? Because even if the transmission of some printed words moves from paper to pixels, the power of words to transform society remains perpetually strong. Whether on T-shirts, magazines, bumper stickers, books, billboards, newspapers, fliers, posters or newsletters, print media extend into almost every corner of our lives.
FRONTLINE: Gentle sounds, distant roar: a watershed year for journalism as research
Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa
The Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC) 2020 decision on disciplinary categories has profound implications for journalism as a research discipline. Journalism Practice and Professional Writing retain their six-digit Fields of Research (FoR) code within the Creative Arts and Writing Division, a new six-digit FoR of Journalism Studies has been created in the Division of Language, Communication and Culture, and three new FoR codes of Literature, Journalism and Professional Writing have been created for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, Māori and Pacific Peoples within the new Indigenous Studies Division. This categorisation both confirms Journalism as a sovereign and independent discipline distinct from Communication and Media Studies, which has been in bitter contention for more than two decades. The ANZSRC confirmed its 2008 policy that the sole and definitive criterion for categorisation was methodology. This article explores the welcome ram...
Final Programme of Journalism Research & Education Section-IAMCR
In this conference through our many sessions, debates, round table discussions, I feel that there is urgency to move away from generic models. New approaches need to be devised, or explored within local contexts and older ones such development journalism that needs to be re-examined and given space to grow afresh. Journalism practices, education and research methodologies should be informed of the alternative options, base their foundations on local knowledge systems, needs and values. As educators and practitioners, we need to encourage young people to learn and practice journalism in such ways that borrows knowledge from their communities and benefits them directly by sharing their findings with them. Journalism research and education cannot be fully internationalized apart from the world-as-a-single-place and thus represents a key component in these social transformations, both as cause and outcome.