Original scientific paper
Newsroom Convergence in Slovenia: Newswork Environments of the Media Organizations Delo and Žurnal media
Igor Vobič
; assistant at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana,
Abstract
Newsroom convergence is a gradual global process of increasing cooperation, collaboration and combination of technologies, staff and spaces between formerly distinct editorial teams of print, television and online media that has its evolutional origins in the United States and Great Britain. However, after theoretically reconsidering the notion of newsroom convergence, doing participant observation in two Slovenian media organizations for a month, and conducting 29 problem-centered interviews with their chairmen, editors and journalists, the author suggests that newsroom convergence is not a universal, linear and technology-driven process and concludes that models of newsroom convergence vary from country to country, from medium to medium, and derive from politically, economically and culturally specific social contexts. Delo and Žurnal media originate from different newsroom traditions, play different roles in the Slovenian media ecosystem, have varying shares of the media market and differ in demography of news staff and size of news production. As a result they have adopted specific newsroom convergence models with different spatial organization and hierarchal structures that reflect a diverse relationship between journalistic norms, market norms and technology.
Keywords
newsroom; convergence; integration; newswork; newsroom organization; newsroom structure; print media; Slovenia
Hrčak ID:
37283
URI
Publication date:
4.5.2009.
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