Coping with the Murder: The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s
Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists

C 2024

Coping with the Murder: The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists

URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína a Lenka HANIKOVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

Coping with the Murder: The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists

Autoři

URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína a Lenka HANIKOVÁ

Vydání

Abingdon, New York, Journalism and Safety: An Introduction to the Field, 1, 2024

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50800 5.8 Media and communications

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

tištěná verze "print"

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-1-032-70294-0

Klíčová slova anglicky

Coping mechanisms; safety and security practices; stress; trauma; violence against journalists; Ján Kuciak; Martina Kušnírová; murder; Slovakia

Změněno: 1. 4. 2024 12:56, Mgr. et Mgr. Marína Urbániková, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

In this contribution, using a case-study approach, we focus on the assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée and explore the impact and consequences that it had on the community of investigative journalists in Slovakia. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with top investigative journalists (N = 12), we seek to answer two questions: How have they coped with the murder of their colleague? And, how has this incident changed their everyday journalistic practices and routines when it comes to achieving and maintaining safety? We identified 12 coping actions which, based on their function, were organised into five higher order families of coping: emotional purging; sharing and support seeking; avoidance and displacement; defiance and defence; and spreading the legacy and giving meaning to the tragedy. Regarding safety and security practices, the journalists claim that their approach has fundamentally changed. A variety of measures to stay safe, both online and offline, were adopted both on the organisational and on the individual level. However, many of these measures are not used consistently, mostly because they are not deemed necessary when covering non-sensitive topics, but also because of their impracticality in everyday journalistic work, and sceptical and fatalistic approach of the journalists to safety.

Citovat

URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína a Lenka HANIKOVÁ. Coping with the Murder: The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists. In Oscar Westlund, Roy Krøvel, Kristin Skare Orgeret. Journalism and Safety: An Introduction to the Field. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2024. 1. ISBN 978-1-032-70294-0.

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URBÁNIKOVÁ, Marína a Lenka HANIKOVÁ. Coping with the Murder: The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists. In Oscar Westlund, Roy Krøvel, Kristin Skare Orgeret. \textit{Journalism and Safety: An Introduction to the Field}. Abingdon, New York: Routledge, 2024. 1. ISBN~978-1-032-70294-0.

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