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

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://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00009_1.

Základní údaje

• Originální název: Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom
• Autoři: METYKOVÁ, Monika (203 Česká republika, domácí) a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ (203 Česká republika, domácí).
• Vydání: Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, Bristol, Itellect, 2020, 2001-0818.

Další údaje

• Originální 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
• WWW: URL URL
• Kód RIV: RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115520
• Organizační jednotka: Fakulta sociálních studií
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ajms_00009_1
• UT WoS: 000526948700002
• Klíčová slova anglicky: Czech Republic; Vltava Labe Media; autonomy; local journalism crisis; local newspapers; material conditions
• Štítky: rivok
• Příznaky: Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Anotace

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.