Journalists under attack : self-censorship as an unperceived method for avoiding hostility
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14230%2F22%3A00134816" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14230/22:00134816 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/447" target="_blank" >https://journals.ptks.pl/cejc/article/view/447</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.51480/1899-5101.15.3(32).2" target="_blank" >10.51480/1899-5101.15.3(32).2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Journalists under attack : self-censorship as an unperceived method for avoiding hostility
Original language description
This study investigates journalists' self-censorship and introduces a phenomenon of unperceived collective self-censorship that demands a combination of detection methods. We conducted a content analysis of media critique texts (N=156) that discuss attacks on Estonian journalism. These results were combined with the content analysis of journalistic roles in the news (N=2409) and a survey on journalists (N=99) and completed with semi-structured interviews (N=14). The findings showed that accusations against journalists were frequently related to discourses regarding journalists' interventionist or watchdog roles. Juxtaposing these results with quantitative data, it became evident that when aspects of interventionist and watchdog roles were criticized in the media texts, the performance of these roles decreased in the news. However, journalists' self-assessment does not show the perception of this change. We argue that self-censorship was created unknowingly within the newsroom. External pressures - such as politically motivated attacks on journalism - may promote unperceived self-censorship.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50800 - Media and communications
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Central European Journal of Communication
ISSN
1899-5101
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
15
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
359-378
UT code for WoS article
000946490300003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85151277737