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Journalistic Work During a Pandemic: Changing Contexts and Subjective Perceptions
Journalism Practice, volume 18, issue 1 (2024), pp. 99-118
"This study explores the extent to which the Corona pandemic has changed the working conditions of journalists in Germany and how they perceive these changes. The goal is to provide both the scale and qualitative nature of Corona-induced changes in the working environment of journalists by means of
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Precarity in the journalistic workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic: A representative survey of Belgian journalists
ECREA Journalism Studies Section Conference 'Journalism Studies Meets Practice' (2023), 1 p.
"The Center for Journalism Studies (Ghent University, Belgium) has a long tradition in profiling studies of journalists based on survey research in collaboration with the Belgian associations of professional journalists (VVJ and AJP). Every five years (since 2003, last wave in 2018), a representativ
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Journalists Considering an Exit
In: Happiness in Journalism
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E. Holton, Mark Deuze, Claudia Mellado (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 11-18
"This chapter examines the results of a number of studies that considered whether and why journalists sought to leave the profession. They found that freelance, female, and low earning journalists were the most likely to leave." (Abstract)
Self-Employment in the News Industry
In: Happiness in Journalism
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Avery E. Holton, Mark Deuze, Claudia Mellado (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 157-165
"This chapter highlights the position of freelance or self-employed journalists in the news sector from the pessimistic observation that news organizations tend to push journalists into a freelance status to cope with decreasing revenues and are inspired by neoliberal thoughts." (Abstract)
Moving Barriers to Investigative Journalism in Latin America in Times of Instability and Professional Innovation
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1890-1908
"Latin American journalism has experienced recent transitions marked by digital affordances, including a growth of investigative journalism. The region has also experienced more political and economic instability, giving rise to a wave of threats and harassment against journalists. This repeated cro
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Precariously Employed Climate Journalists: The Challenges of Freelance Climate Journalists in South Asia
Journalism Practice, issue 2-3 (2022), pp. 262-280
"Declines in the number of foreign correspondents and bureaus have caused media to rely on freelance journalists, particularly on coverage of complex and topical issues such as climate change. This study examines the challenges freelance climate journalists in South Asia face and how they negotiate
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A Handbook for Pitching Development Stories
Freelance Journalism Assembly; European Journalism Centre (2022), 10 pp.
"Development stories may explore national or international efforts to reduce poverty and inequality or improve health and education with a focus on their long-term impact or sustainability. Good development journalism should consider the perspective of those most affected and reflect their lived exp
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A Freelancers’ Guide for Reporting on Vaccines
Freelance Journalism Assembly; European Journalism Centre (2021), 4 pp.
"How we report on vaccines and vaccination programmes can affect public perceptions of vaccines and vaccine acceptance. In this field, our choice of words, narrative decisions, presentation of data and selection of sources are all crucial - not just journalistically, but from a public health perspec
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Entrepreneurial Journalism in Africa: Opportunities, Challenges and Risks for Media in the Digital Age. Learnings from a Conference Held by KAS Media Africa in Accra, Ghana, 16-19 September 2018
Johannesburg: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2019), 64 pp.
"[...] there seems to be an understanding that the media is important and that society needs the media. In October 2018, KAS Media Africa, therefore, gathered the CEOs of media houses, publishers and editors-in-chief from 16 different countries, both from Anglophone and Frenchspeaking Africa, in Acc
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Impact as Driving Force of Journalistic and Social Change
Journalism, volume 20, issue 4 (2019), pp. 552-567
"In this article, we explore how entrepreneurial journalists from a wide variety of national contexts present ‘impact’ as one of the aims in their work. By exploring the variety, incongruences, and strategic considerations in the discourse on impact of those at the forefront of journalistic inno
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All the news that's worth the risk: Improving protection for freelance journalists in war zones
Boston College International & Comparative Law Review, volume 40, issue 1 (2017), pp. 141-166
"Although war journalism has existed for centuries, changes in the nature of armed conflict and its coverage have put the danger for modern journalists at an all time high. The traditional war correspondent has been replaced in recent years by the independent freelance journalist. While the former r
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Kidnapping of Journalists: Reporting from High-Risk Conflict Zones
Tauris; Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2016), vii, 100 pp.
"The vulnerability of journalists to kidnappings was starkly illustrated by the killing of James Foley and Steven Sotloff by Islamic militants in 2014. Their murder underscored the risks taken by journalists and news organisations trying to cover developments in dangerous regions of the world and ha
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The Freelancer-NGO Alliance: What a Story of Kenyan Waste Reveals About Contemporary Foreign News Production
Journalism Studies, volume 16, issue 2 (2015), pp. 275-288
"This paper explores the impact that emerging partnerships - particularly between freelancers and nonprofits - are having on the practices of contemporary foreign news reporting. Through an exploration of a widely published project on a health crisis in East Africa-funded by the Pulitzer Center on C
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Outsourcing Authority in the Digital Age: Television News Networks and Freelance War Correspondents
Critical Studies in Media Communication, volume 32, issue 4 (2015), pp. 225-239
"This article examines the unique ways in which the figure of the freelance war correspondent is entangled within both the material and discursive logic of the digital in the age of the “war on terror.” Because freelancers increasingly work across media platforms and without large crews, these m
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"These Grey Areas": How and Why Freelance Work Blurs INGOs and News Organizations
Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 8 (2015), pp. 989-1009
"International non-governmental organizations (INGOs) are known to employ freelancers to produce multimedia and to pitch it for them to mainstream news outlets. So it seems odd that research about the blurring of news organizations and INGOs has been largely focused upon the practices of full-time s
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Entrepreneurial Journalism Handbook
Belgrade: Media Program South East Europe Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2014), 46 pp.
"The KAS Media Program South East Europe has [...] developed a training course in self-employment for online journalists, which took place for the first time from 23rd to 25th October 2013 in Belgrade, Serbia. The findings from this training are presented in a compact form in this handbook. It is es
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The Art of Pitching
Forum for African Investigative Reporters (FAIR) (2013), 7 pp.
Freelancers in Mexico: A Survey. Findings and Challenges
London: Rory Peck Trust (2009), 52 pp.
"Even though Mexico is not at war, it has now become one of the most dangerous countries in the world to be a journalist, and especially a freelancer. Since the Trust first visited Mexico in 2005, 18 newsgatherers have been killed and five have disappeared, four newspaper offices were the targets of
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International News Reporting: Frontlines and Deadlines
Chichester: Wiley Blackwell (2009), xvi, 280 pp.
"A collection of essays by top international correspondants in print, broadcasting, and photojournalism, International News Reporting offers an introduction to journalism written by the people who have made the profession what it is today. Contributors identify the major areas of professional practi
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Writing for the Media in Southern Africa
Key Guidance
Cape Town: Oxford University Press Southern Africa, 3rd ed. (2005), 404 pp.
"This book takes students through the journalistic process step-by-step: what news is, how publications are organized, the role of the journalist, ways to get the most from interviews, a style and grammar guide, and easy-to-follow advice on how to put together basic news stories. This third edition
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