Description
Journalists and Job Loss explores the profound disruption of journalism work in the 21st century’s networked digital media environment.
The chapters analyse how journalists have experienced and navigated job loss, re-employment, career change and career re-invention as traditional patterns of newsroom employment give way to occupational change, income insecurity and precarious work in journalism globally. The authors showcase the design, methodology and results of the New Beats project, a ground-breaking longitudinal study of change in the work of Australian journalists, as well as related case studies of job loss and career change in journalism based on research in different national settings across the global North and global South. The book also considers the wider implications of changes in journalism work for media sustainability, gender equity, and journalism work futures.
The book provides a theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis of job loss and the new contours of journalistic work in a critical political, cultural, economic, and social industry. It will be an important resource for researchers and students in disciplines including journalism, media and communication studies, business, and the social sciences in general.
Table of Contents
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Understanding Job Loss Among Journalists
1. Understanding Job Loss Among Journalists
Timothy Marjoribanks, Lawrie Zion, Penny O’Donnell, Merryn Sherwood, Andrew Dodd and Matthew Ricketson
Part I. A New Field of Study: What Happens Next After Job Loss in Journalism
2. Australian Journalists: Adapting to Redundancy Over Time
Lawrie Zion
3. Passion and Precarity: Producing Public Interest Journalism After Job Loss
Andrew Dodd
4. Newly Branded: The Experiences of Post-Redundancy Journalists Who Go on to Work in Public Relations
Merryn Sherwood
5. Understanding Loss in Legacy Newsrooms
Matthew Ricketson and Monika Winarnita
6. Job Loss and Unionism in Australian Journalism
Penny O’Donnell
Part II. Towards World-Wide Understanding: Case Studies of the Aftermath of Job Loss in the Global North and South
7. Living on the Edge: U.S. Newspaper Journalism Following the Great Exodus
Scott Reinardy
8. Finland: Shock and Relief
Ari Heinonen, Kari Koljonen, Auli Harju
9. The Netherlands: Making it Work
Mark Deuze
10. Not ‘Just Another Job’: Journalism as Public Service
Andrea Hunter, Penny O’Donnell, and Nicole Cohen
11. Indonesian Women Journalists and Precarious Work
Samiaji Bintang, Monika Winarnita, Ignatius Haryanto, Hanif Suranto, and Albertus M Prestianta
12. Traumatic Transitions and Loss: How Journalists in South Africa Experience Job Loss
Glenda Daniels
13. Plan B: The Abandonment of Journalism in Portugal
José Nuno Matos
Part III. Beyond Newsrooms: Job Loss, Media Sustainability, and Work Futures
14. Down, But Not Out: Journalism Jobs and Media Sustainability in the UK
Francois Nel and Coral Milburn-Curtis
15. The Job is Only Part of the Story: Understanding Job Loss in Journalism Through Livelihood
Henrik Örnebring and Cecilia Möller
16. Freelance Journalists in Australia at a Time of Industry Contraction and COVID-19
Penny O’Donnell and Beate Josephi
