Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2024.2326519" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2024.2326519</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2024.2326519" target="_blank" >10.1080/17512786.2024.2326519</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Time-based Variability in the Presence of Infotainment, Service, and Civic Roles in Czech Quality Press

Original language description

Evidence on how journalistic role performance changes in time and in relation to which factors is largely missing. This study investigates the presence of civic, infotainment, and service roles in the news, and examines whether their presence varies in time given the worsening economic conditions on the press market and changes in ownership type. A longitudinal content analysis of a representative sample of news (N=1871) published in four Czech quality dailies during three year-long periods (i.e., 2006–2007, 2011–2012, 2016–2017) was conducted. Bivariate analyses showed that the presence of the roles varied in time for all of the newspapers but to a relatively small extent. Ridge logistic regressions revealed that the presence of all three audience-related roles was associated with specific dailies and ownership types, but not with worsening economic conditions. As compared to privately-owned newspapers, likelihood for the presence of the service role was bigger in corporate-owned newspapers, and for the civic role it was bigger in oligarchic-owned newspapers. The findings suggest that corporate-owned dailies responded to worsening economic conditions by preferring a service role rather than an infotainment role, and that the effects of oligarchic ownership on journalism practice are complex and far from being straightforward.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50801 - Journalism

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journalism Practice

ISSN

1751-2786

e-ISSN

1751-2794

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

9

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

2374-2395

UT code for WoS article

001182571000001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85187491620