Work first, feel later: How news workers reflect on subjective choices during a Terror Attack

Konow-Lund, Maria ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5514-3023, Bech, Isabel and Olsson, Eva-Karin 2017. Work first, feel later: How news workers reflect on subjective choices during a Terror Attack. Kjos Fonn, Birgitte, Hornmoen, Harald, Hyde-Clarke, Nathalie and Benestad Hågvar, Yngve, eds. Putting a Face on It: Individual Exposure and Subjectivity in Journalism, Cappelen Damm Akademisk, pp. 309-327. (10.23865/noasp.28)

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Abstract

In journalism studies, the discussion of objectivity as a strategic ritual is long standing, while the impact of subjectivity and emotion upon journalism has received much less attention. During terror events, journalists’ notion of objectivity as a strategy is likely to be challenged due to unexpected autonomy. In order to explore how this unfolds, we have interviewed 24 journalists in three different news organisations shortly after the Norwegian terror attack in 2011, where 77 people were killed. Studies of what journalists experience during a terror attack, and how they reflect upon their experiences, are scarce. The present study addresses this gap, and in particular looks at how news workers deal with dilemmas where their perceptions of professionalism are challenged.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Journalism, Media and Culture
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Additional Information:	Open Access Publication: This work is protected under the provisions of the Norwegian Copyright Act (Act No. 2 of May 12, 1961, relating to Copyright in Literary, Scientific and Artistic Works) and published Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-ncnd/4.0/). This license allows third parties to freely copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
Publisher:	Cappelen Damm Akademisk
ISBN:	9788202522148
Last Modified:	03 Nov 2022 10:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/107995

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