Czech Journalists' Refreshed Sense of Ethics in the Midst of Media Ownership Turmoil

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/article/view/348" target="_blank" >http://cogitatiopress.com/ojs/index.php/mediaandcommunication/article/view/348</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v3i4.348" target="_blank" >10.17645/mac.v3i4.348</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Czech Journalists' Refreshed Sense of Ethics in the Midst of Media Ownership Turmoil

Original language description

In recent years, the Czech Republic has seen the largest changes in media ownership since the early 1990s. Most strik-ing was the purchase of one of the largest publishing houses Mafra by the tycoon Andrej Babiš in June 2013, followed by the takeover ofthe Czech branch of Ringier by other Czech businessmen later that year. The first case in particular instigated immense discussion about the economic and ethical crisis facing Czech journalism since Babiš is also a power-ful political figure (currently the Minister of Finance). In response, a significant number of leading, well-known journal-ists left media owned by big business and launched projects of quality or ""slow"" journalism which had until that point been merely discussed theoretically. This paper-based on the results of the Czech part of the Worlds of Journalism Study project-addresses the shift in the ways journalists perceive their roles and ethical responsibilities before and af-ter the 2013 ownership changes. We also pres

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

Media and Communication

ISSN

2183-2439

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

3

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

PT - PORTUGAL

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

52-61

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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