Zeitschrift für Massenkommunikation und Journalismus

Influence and Newsroom Routines: How News Workers Navigate an Evolving Business Model

Abstract

William Schulte

The digital paradigm in newsrooms created a culture of resistance in news workers as corporate mandates and structural changes pressured journalists to privilege emerging revenue streams over professional norms. This study looks at the culture of news rooms to explore if routines, directed from management down to rank-and-file news works, have been normalized, embraced, or modified by journalists in a post-digital paradigm atmosphere. The answers lie in how directly these new routines serve the audience.