| Authors and Corporations: | , |
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| In: | Mediální studia [Media Studies], 2, 2007, 04, p. 358-375 |
| published: |
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Fakulta sociálních věd
Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences |
| Media Type: | Article, E-Article |
| ISSN: |
2464-4846
1801-9978 |
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| EISSN: | 2464-4846 |
| published in: | Mediální studia [Media Studies] |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | |
| Collection: | CEEOL Central and Eastern European Online Library sid-53-col-ceeol |
Habits, professional standards, routines, as well as the opinions of "press people" can offer at least partial answers to questions dealing with journalists as a specific socio-professional community. The article is based upon a survey of Czech journalists performed between the years 2003 and 2005 and its aim is to trace the basic types of their "professional self-definition". The results suggest that along with traditional approaches of the journalistic profession (the "educational", "advocate/adversarial" and "neutral/objective" types of journalists), there is a subgroup stressing a distinctive "career/pragmatic" approach to the role of being a journalist. Journalism is understood as an individual development tool, as a "fast track" towards an individual career (not only within the journalistic profession) by this subgroup. |