Coping with the Murder : The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2021.1877179" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2021.1877179</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1877179" target="_blank" >10.1080/17512786.2021.1877179</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Coping with the Murder : The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In this contribution, using a case-study approach, we focus on the assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée and explore the impact and consequences that it had on the community of investigative journalists in Slovakia. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with top investigative journalists (N = 12), we seek to answer two questions: How have they coped with the murder of their colleague? And, how has this incident changed their everyday journalistic practices and routines when it comes to achieving and maintaining safety? We identified 12 coping actions which, based on their function, were organised into five higher order families of coping: emotional purging; sharing and support seeking; avoidance and displacement; defiance and defence; and spreading the legacy and giving meaning to the tragedy. Regarding safety and security practices, the journalists claim that their approach has fundamentally changed. A variety of measures to stay safe, both online and offline, were adopted both on the organisational and on the individual level. However, many of these measures are not used consistently, mostly because they are not deemed necessary when covering non-sensitive topics, but also because of their impracticality in everyday journalistic work, and sceptical and fatalistic approach of the journalists to safety.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Coping with the Murder : The Impact of Ján Kuciak’s Assassination on Slovak Investigative Journalists

Popis výsledku anglicky

In this contribution, using a case-study approach, we focus on the assassination of Ján Kuciak and his fiancée and explore the impact and consequences that it had on the community of investigative journalists in Slovakia. By conducting a series of semi-structured interviews with top investigative journalists (N = 12), we seek to answer two questions: How have they coped with the murder of their colleague? And, how has this incident changed their everyday journalistic practices and routines when it comes to achieving and maintaining safety? We identified 12 coping actions which, based on their function, were organised into five higher order families of coping: emotional purging; sharing and support seeking; avoidance and displacement; defiance and defence; and spreading the legacy and giving meaning to the tragedy. Regarding safety and security practices, the journalists claim that their approach has fundamentally changed. A variety of measures to stay safe, both online and offline, were adopted both on the organisational and on the individual level. However, many of these measures are not used consistently, mostly because they are not deemed necessary when covering non-sensitive topics, but also because of their impracticality in everyday journalistic work, and sceptical and fatalistic approach of the journalists to safety.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

50800 - Media and communications

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2022

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journalism Practice

ISSN

1751-2786

e-ISSN

1751-2794

Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

9

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

21

Strana od-do

1927-1947

Kód UT WoS článku

000613730100001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85099818989