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- Title
Alter Streit unter neuen Bedingungen. Einflüsse politischer Einstellungen von Journalisten auf ihre Arbeit.
- Authors
Reinemann, Carsten; Baugut, Philip
- Abstract
Whether individual characteristics and preferences of journalists affect their work has long been an issue of scientific debate. Oftentimes those discussions center around the potential impact of individual political attitudes that sometimes are identified as a reason for an alleged »liberal bias« in journalism and media coverage. Against that backdrop, this paper critically reviews the relevant literature in order to answer the question what we really know about the impact of journalists' individual political attitudes on their work. To do so the paper first theoretically reflects on the significance of both individual and contextual meso- and macro-level characteristics in journalism. From an empirical perspective, then, data on political attitudes of German journalists are presented followed by a review of studies that actually investigated the connection between attitudes, journalistic work and coverage. Finally we discuss what the recent changes of working conditions in journalism (e.g., commercialization, increasing orientation towards audiences, acceleration of news cycles, increasing coorientation within journalism) mean for the potential relevance of individual political attitudes. The paper ends with suggestions for future research on the topic.
- Publication
Zeitschrift für Politik, 2014, Vol 61, Issue 4, p480
- ISSN
0044-3360
- Publication type
Article