“I Know Which Devil I Write for” : Two Types of Autonomy Among
Czech Journalists Remaining in and Leaving the Prime Minister's
Newspapers

J 2023

“I Know Which Devil I Write for” : Two Types of Autonomy Among Czech Journalists Remaining in and Leaving the Prime Minister's Newspapers

KOTIŠOVÁ, Johana a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

“I Know Which Devil I Write for” : Two Types of Autonomy Among Czech Journalists Remaining in and Leaving the Prime Minister's Newspapers

Autoři

KOTIŠOVÁ, Johana (203 Česká republika) a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ (203 Česká republika, garant, domácí)

Vydání

The International Journal of Press/Politics, Thousand Oaks, Sage Publications, 2023, 1940-1612

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

50801 Journalism

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Odkazy

article - open access

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.800 v roce 2022

Kód RIV

RIV/00216224:14230/23:00129927

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19401612211045229

UT WoS

000713263400001

Klíčová slova anglicky

autonomy; autonomy-as-a-value; autonomy-as-a-practice; media ownership; Central and Eastern Europe; journalists

Štítky

rivok

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno

Změněno: 22. 11. 2022 13:02, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

This paper examines two different understandings of professional autonomy among journalists currently and formerly working at Mafra, a Czech media house acquired in 2013 by Andrej Babiš, who in 2017 became the Czech Prime Minister. We build on existing research of local trends in media ownership and journalistic autonomy to ask the following questions: What differentiated the experience of journalists who exited the organization after the ownership change from that of those who stayed put? How did the two groups understand professional journalistic autonomy? Based on the thematic analysis of twenty semistructured interviews with ten journal- ists who stayed in the media house after Babiš’s acquisition and ten journalists who left, we argue that in the journalists’ narratives, the two decisions reflect two different notions of autonomy: autonomy-as-a-practice and autonomy-as-a-value. While our findings add to the scarce empirical research on journalists’ lived experiences of the region’s mediascape marked by growing comingling and concentration of political, economic and media power, we also suggest that the autonomy-as-a-practice and journalists’ agency should be further studied as a possible way how to perform and promote journalistic autonomy even in illiberalizing contexts—in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.

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I_know_which_devil_I_write_for.pdf

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Citovat

KOTIŠOVÁ, Johana a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ. “I Know Which Devil I Write for” : Two Types of Autonomy Among Czech Journalists Remaining in and Leaving the Prime Minister's Newspapers. The International Journal of Press/Politics. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2023, roč. 28, č. 1, s. 238-256. ISSN 1940-1612. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19401612211045229.

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KOTIŠOVÁ, Johana a Lenka WASCHKOVÁ CÍSAŘOVÁ. “I Know Which Devil I Write for” : Two Types of Autonomy Among Czech Journalists Remaining in and Leaving the Prime Minister's Newspapers. \textit{The International Journal of Press/Politics}. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2023, roč.~28, č.~1, s.~238-256. ISSN~1940-1612. Dostupné z: https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/19401612211045229.

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