Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions
of the Czech local print newsroom

J 2020

Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom

METYKOVÁ, Monika a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom

Autoři

METYKOVÁ, Monika a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ

Vydání

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, Bristol, Itellect, 2020, 2001-0818

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50801 Journalism

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

URL, URL

Označené pro přenos do RIV

Ano

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115520

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

Klíčová slova anglicky

Czech Republic; Vltava Labe Media; autonomy; local journalism crisis; local newspapers; material conditions

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 1. 3. 2021 16:18, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The crisis of journalism has been the subject of extensive scholarly and public debate. We argue that this debate needs to focus on actual developments on the ground that may be specific for a given society and that have serious consequences for the material conditions of journalists' work. We focus specifically on local print newsrooms in the Czech Republic, one of the 'new democracies' of Eastern Europe. We interviewed local journalists in middle-management positions at key stages of the transformation of the local newspaper publishing group Vltava Labe Press (VLP). We first approached journalists in 2015 when VLP's German owners - the publishing house Verlagsgruppe Passau - sold the company to the Slovak investment group Penta and followed up a year later when the 're-structuralization' of the local newspaper publisher was completed. It is not surprising that our case study demonstrates that commercial pressures impact directly on the material conditions and the locations and spaces of journalists' work, with the latter ones representing areas that form a crucial part of workplace autonomy, but have thus far been under-researched.

Citovat

METYKOVÁ, Monika a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ. Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom. Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies. Bristol: Itellect, 2020, roč. 9, č. 1, s. 21-38. ISSN 2001-0818. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00009_1.

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METYKOVÁ, Monika a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ. Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom. \textit{Journal of Applied Journalism \&{} Media Studies}. Bristol: Itellect, 2020, roč.~9, č.~1, s.~21-38. ISSN~2001-0818. Dostupné z: https://doi.org/10.1386/ajms\_{}00009\_{}1.

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