When the crisis comes home : Emotions, professionalism, and reporting on 22 March in Belgian journalists’ narratives

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884917748519" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884917748519</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884917748519" target="_blank" >10.1177/1464884917748519</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

When the crisis comes home : Emotions, professionalism, and reporting on 22 March in Belgian journalists’ narratives

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

On the morning of 22 March 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings planned by Daesh occurred in Brussels. Those Belgian reporters who commonly travel to conflict zones and disaster sites had to report on a ‘combat zone event’ that was happening at the place where they, their families, and friends lived. Their subjective experience of witnesses, actors, and even indirect victims merged with their professional tasks. The traditional journalistic commitment to objectivity – that is, detachment, impartiality, fairness, or professional distance – that remains to be a cornerstone of journalists’ professional self-perception and an assumed source of their authority, was challenged. The article seeks to explore the aftermath of the unprecedentedly close terrorist attacks among Belgian journalists. Based on in-depth, narrative interviews with 10 Belgian ‘crisis reporters’, the article addresses the following questions: In which sense did the reporters experience the attacks as different from other crises? How did they deal with the unusually complex relationship between their personal and professional identities? What form(s) of objectivity did they employ and (how) did their work on emotional boundaries interfere with such a norm? The findings show that the radical, ‘surreal’ alteration of the reporters’ lifeworld resulted in a fundamental conflict between personal and professional identities. In turn, their rupture but inseparability helped to shape the objectivity-as-a-practice employed by the journalists on and after 22 March.

Název v anglickém jazyce

When the crisis comes home : Emotions, professionalism, and reporting on 22 March in Belgian journalists’ narratives

Popis výsledku anglicky

On the morning of 22 March 2016, three coordinated suicide bombings planned by Daesh occurred in Brussels. Those Belgian reporters who commonly travel to conflict zones and disaster sites had to report on a ‘combat zone event’ that was happening at the place where they, their families, and friends lived. Their subjective experience of witnesses, actors, and even indirect victims merged with their professional tasks. The traditional journalistic commitment to objectivity – that is, detachment, impartiality, fairness, or professional distance – that remains to be a cornerstone of journalists’ professional self-perception and an assumed source of their authority, was challenged. The article seeks to explore the aftermath of the unprecedentedly close terrorist attacks among Belgian journalists. Based on in-depth, narrative interviews with 10 Belgian ‘crisis reporters’, the article addresses the following questions: In which sense did the reporters experience the attacks as different from other crises? How did they deal with the unusually complex relationship between their personal and professional identities? What form(s) of objectivity did they employ and (how) did their work on emotional boundaries interfere with such a norm? The findings show that the radical, ‘surreal’ alteration of the reporters’ lifeworld resulted in a fundamental conflict between personal and professional identities. In turn, their rupture but inseparability helped to shape the objectivity-as-a-practice employed by the journalists on and after 22 March.

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J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50801 - Journalism

Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journalism

ISSN

1464-8849

e-ISSN

1741-3001

Svazek periodika

21

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

11

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

17

Strana od-do

1710-1726

Kód UT WoS článku

000578823400007

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85092933283