Professional Self-Image of the Czech Journalists: Selected Attributes
Professional Self-Image of the Czech Journalists: Selected Attributes
Author(s): Jaromír Volek, Jan JirákSubject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Keywords: Czech journalists; journalistic profession; mass media; professionalization; professional values; professional self-image; professional self-definition
Summary/Abstract: Habits, professional standards, routines, as well as the opinions of "press people" can offer at least partial answers to questions dealing with journalists as a specific socio-professional community. The article is based upon a survey of Czech journalists performed between the years 2003 and 2005 and its aim is to trace the basic types of their "professional self-definition". The results suggest that along with traditional approaches of the journalistic profession (the "educational", "advocate/adversarial" and "neutral/objective" types of journalists), there is a subgroup stressing a distinctive "career/pragmatic" approach to the role of being a journalist. Journalism is understood as an individual development tool, as a "fast track" towards an individual career (not only within the journalistic profession) by this subgroup.
Journal: Mediální studia
- Issue Year: 2/2007
- Issue No: 04
- Page Range: 358-375
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English