Detailed Information on Publication Record
2020
Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom
METYKOVÁ, Monika and Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁBasic information
Original name
Closed doors, empty desks : The declining material conditions of the Czech local print newsroom
Authors
METYKOVÁ, Monika (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)
Edition
Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, Bristol, Itellect, 2020, 2001-0818
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Článek v odborném periodiku
Field of Study
50801 Journalism
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
RIV identification code
RIV/00216224:14230/20:00115520
Organization unit
Faculty of Social Studies
UT WoS
000526948700002
Keywords in English
Czech Republic; Vltava Labe Media; autonomy; local journalism crisis; local newspapers; material conditions
Tags
Tags
International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 1/3/2021 16:18, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová
Abstract
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.