Allie Kosterich

News Nerds (eBook, ePUB)

Institutional Change in Journalism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The content of news has not changed much over the last century--politicians, celebrities, wars, crime, and sports dominate past and present headlines. Yet, the ways in which journalists both gather and disseminate information have been turned on their head. Gone are the days of editors assigning stories to writers, who then research, inquire, and present what they found in a compelling yet accurate fashion. Today's journalists are coding, programming, running analytics, and developing apps. These "news nerds" are industry professionals working in jobs at the intersection of traditional journalism and technologically intensive positions that were once largely separate. Consequently, news nerds have changed the institutionalized view of journalism, which now accounts for these professionals. News Nerds explores how technological, economic, and societal changes are impacting the institutionalized profession of journalism. Allie Kosterich draws on a mixed-methods research design that blends interviews, social network analysis of LinkedIn data, job postings, and industry publications to make sense of how skills and practices become entrenched throughout the news industry. Taken together, these data reveal the ways in which the profession is evolving to incorporate new technological skillsets and new routines of production. In telling these stories and sharing these findings, Kosterich directly confronts what happens when new skillsets and new ways of understanding and producing news start to collide with the old routines of journalism. News Nerds introduces the notion of institutional augmentation--a process of institutional change that is not restricted to the expected binary outcome of the reinstitutionalization of something new or failure as a fleeting fad. Instead, as in the case of news nerds and journalism, there exists an alternative possibility in the coexistence of supplementary institutions. News Nerds provides a timely and relevant analysis of contemporary journalism and a model for understanding how industries react to the emergence of new career trajectories and new categories of employment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197500385
• Artikelnr.: 66357443

Autorenporträt

Allie Kosterich is an Assistant Professor of Communications and Media Management at the Gabelli School of Business at Fordham University, and a fellow with the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. She researches transformation in media industries.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: News Nerds
Chapter 1: Institutional Change and the Profession of Journalism
Chapter 2: Destabilization of Established Journalism Practices
Chapter 3: Experimentation and Evaluation in the Profession of Journalism
Chapter 4: Legitimization of News Nerds
Chapter 5: Diffusion of News Nerds
Chapter 6: Institutional Augmentation and the Future of News Nerds
Appendix: Data and Methods
Notes
References
Index