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Contemporary Journalism in the US and GermanyEmbedded Political Reporting: Boundary Processes and Performances

Contemporary Journalism in the US and Germany: Embedded Political Reporting: Boundary Processes... [The specificity of the research setting—reporters embedded in political institutions—is utilized in this chapter to examine the maintenance of professional autonomy. Source relations constitute a continuous social drama for US journalists and involve meticulous signaling of professional boundaries (boundary performance) and perpetual adjustments of closeness and distance (boundary management), performatively and otherwise. German reporters treated their social context much more matter-of-factly, and their lives were not at all pervaded by the elaborate purification rituals their US counterparts took on. These findings reflect varying levels of historically evolved and symbolically significant institutional distances between media and politics. Yet, despite the consecrated distance, there were substantial deviations of this cultural consensus in the US press corps.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Contemporary Journalism in the US and GermanyEmbedded Political Reporting: Boundary Processes and Performances

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
ISBN
978-1-137-51536-0
Pages
153 –195
DOI
10.1057/978-1-137-51537-7_6
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Abstract

[The specificity of the research setting—reporters embedded in political institutions—is utilized in this chapter to examine the maintenance of professional autonomy. Source relations constitute a continuous social drama for US journalists and involve meticulous signaling of professional boundaries (boundary performance) and perpetual adjustments of closeness and distance (boundary management), performatively and otherwise. German reporters treated their social context much more matter-of-factly, and their lives were not at all pervaded by the elaborate purification rituals their US counterparts took on. These findings reflect varying levels of historically evolved and symbolically significant institutional distances between media and politics. Yet, despite the consecrated distance, there were substantial deviations of this cultural consensus in the US press corps.]

Published: Feb 12, 2017

Keywords: Political Actor; Social Drama; Professional Autonomy; Source Relation; Ethical Policy

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