Business influence on media news processing: a comparison of journalists' perceptions in the Czech Republic and South Africa

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11230%2F15%3A10295346" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11230/15:10295346 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.economics-sociology.eu/files/ES_Vol8_1_Lab.pdf" target="_blank" >http://www.economics-sociology.eu/files/ES_Vol8_1_Lab.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.14254/2071-789X.2015/8-1/17" target="_blank" >10.14254/2071-789X.2015/8-1/17</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Business influence on media news processing: a comparison of journalists' perceptions in the Czech Republic and South Africa

Original language description

How do journalists in two formally authoritarian countries, the Czech Republic and South Africa, perceive the potential of media owners and other business people to infl uence their work? Multinomial ordinal regression analysis was applied to data collected in the Czech Republic and South Africa for the present 50 country-wide Worlds of Journalism (WoJ) Project. A total of 291 journalists in the Czech Republic and 371 journalists in South Africa were interviewed according to the WoJ protocol. Th ree aspects of media freedom, as perceived by the respondents, a r e discussed, namely the freedom journalists have to select news stories; to emphasize certain news aspects; and to participate in editorial discussion and decision making (news coordination). The results suggest that media owners as well as business people curb, but also support, journalists' freedom in dealing with the news. In the Czech Republic, a country in the global North and a former member of the Soviet bloc, the result

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Economics and Sociology

ISSN

2071-789X

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

8

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

UA - UKRAINE

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

222-233

UT code for WoS article

000365357100018

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84936774123