Université de Fribourg

When Creative Potentials are Being Undermined By Commercial Imperatives : Change and Resistance in Six Cases of Newsroom Reorganisation

Hofstetter, Brigitte ; Schoenhagen, Philomen

In: Digital Journalism, 2017, vol. 5, no. 1, p. 44-60

The aim of this paper is to explore and discuss how newsroom restructuring in favour of cross-media news production is changing news production practices and to what extent media-specific norms, values and practices impede the strategy for change. In doing so, we use the structuration theory of Anthony Giddens as theoretical framework. With his concept of the dynamic relationship between...