Journalistic professionalism in Iceland: A framework for analysis and an assessment
This article assesses the state of journalistic professionalism in Iceland, and puts it in the context of international trends. Based on six key aspects of the image of professionalism in conjunction with a classification of professionalism into two types – occupational and organizational – a framew...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/1464884917695416 2024-05-19T07:42:35+00:00 Journalistic professionalism in Iceland: A framework for analysis and an assessment Guðmundsson, Birgir Kristinsson, Sigurður 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884917695416 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1464884917695416 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/1464884917695416 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Journalism volume 20, issue 12, page 1684-1703 ISSN 1464-8849 1741-3001 journal-article 2017 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884917695416 2024-05-02T09:37:21Z This article assesses the state of journalistic professionalism in Iceland, and puts it in the context of international trends. Based on six key aspects of the image of professionalism in conjunction with a classification of professionalism into two types – occupational and organizational – a framework is suggested for understanding the status and development of journalism with respect to its aspirations and discourse concerning professionalism. The case of Icelandic journalism is examined through this approach. The occupational group of Icelandic journalists is faced with an on-going negotiation between occupational/internal professionalism and organizational/external professionalism and it is found that occupational professionalism is struggling in Icelandic journalism while the characteristics of organizational professionalism grow stronger, in part because of commercialization and technological change. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland SAGE Publications Journalism 20 12 1684 1703 |
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This article assesses the state of journalistic professionalism in Iceland, and puts it in the context of international trends. Based on six key aspects of the image of professionalism in conjunction with a classification of professionalism into two types – occupational and organizational – a framework is suggested for understanding the status and development of journalism with respect to its aspirations and discourse concerning professionalism. The case of Icelandic journalism is examined through this approach. The occupational group of Icelandic journalists is faced with an on-going negotiation between occupational/internal professionalism and organizational/external professionalism and it is found that occupational professionalism is struggling in Icelandic journalism while the characteristics of organizational professionalism grow stronger, in part because of commercialization and technological change. |
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Journalistic professionalism in Iceland: A framework for analysis and an assessment |
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Journalistic professionalism in Iceland: A framework for analysis and an assessment |
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