- Title
- “Journalism ideology” and its influence on the producers of RSG Radio Current Affairs
- Creator
- Jansen van Vuuren, Anna-Marie
- Subject
- Afrikaans, Broadcasting, Current Affairs
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://ujcontent.uj.ac.za8080/10210/373521
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/273674
- Identifier
- uj:29158
- Identifier
- Citation: Jansen van Vuuren, A.M. 2018. “Journalism ideology” and its influence on the producers of RSG Radio Current Affairs.
- Description
- Abstract: In the same way that a person can have a political or a personal ideology, professional identities and how a craft or occupation is practiced may be influenced by what can be labelled as a “professional ideology”. Through interviews with producers of the Afrikaans radio programmes Monitor, Spektrum, and Naweek-Aktueel, this research shows that there is indeed such a thing as a “journalism ideology”. The interviews focused on how “internal influences” such as a journalist’s background and training, newsroom routines and “external influences” such as the audience influenced the decisions they made in choosing news stories and producing content. This “journalism ideology” influences the producers and in turn the news content of these current affairs programmes that are listened to daily by almost two million listeners. The conclusion drawn from the study is that, although the participants’ “journalism ideology” largely determines the news stories for their programmes, structural forces, newsroom routines and organisational constraints often dictate their actions. Finally, although all the participants saw themselves as “watchdogs of democracy” internal pressures within the SABC could endanger that role.
- Language
- English
- Rights
- ©2018, authors
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