Mark Deuze - Beyond Journalism

1 Title page Beyond Journalism Mark Deuze and Tamara Witschge polity

2 Copyright page

3 Prologue: The Beyond Journalism Project Notes

4 Introduction: What Is Journalism (Studies)? Beyond journalism (studies) Telling new stories The state of the field Structure of this book Note

5 1 The Becoming of Journalism Beyond definitions? Journalism as dynamic and dispersed practice Post-industrial journalism Beyond journalism Note

6 2 Setting the Scene: Startups Startup culture around the world Case studies Motivations and goals Startups: Precarious features Notes

7 3 Stories from the Heart Passion for the profession This job is beautiful Against the grain For the Greater and Personal Good You want to be creative

8 4 Making It Work Creative accounting The networked organization of newswork (Re)visiting the newsroom Careering journalism? Achieving a workstyle Freedom versus security Cross-subsidizing work Coping with stress Personality matters

9 5 Stories that Matter Beyond definition and tradition Filling the gap Setting the standard Pioneering journalism

10 References

11 Index

12 End User License Agreement

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Mark Deuze and Tamara Witschge

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Copyright © Mark Deuze and Tamara Witschge 2020

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Names: Deuze, Mark, author. | Witschge, Tamara, author.

Title: Beyond journalism / Mark Deuze, Tamara Witschge.

Description: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “Among the most significant changes affecting journalism is the emergence of startup culture. Through case studies of journalism startups, this book provides insight into the promises and pitfalls of media entrepreneurship, ultimately recognizing new voices as legitimate participants in the discourse about what journalism is, can be and should be”-- Provided by publisher.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019016714 (print) | LCCN 2019980604 (ebook) | ISBN 9780745643410 (hardback) | ISBN 9780745643427 (paperback)

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In the summer of 2013, Mark moved to The Netherlands after spending ten years working and living in the United States. Tamara had then just come back from maternity leave, after returning to her home country the year previous to Mark, having lived and worked in the United Kingdom for five years. Both of us assumed positions at our universities (Mark at the University of Amsterdam, Tamara at the University of Groningen) with responsibilities regarding administration, teaching, and research in journalism and media studies – at a time when both fields shifted under the influence of technological and social transformations.

Whereas changes in journalism manifest primarily in the decline (or disappearance) of local news media, with subsequent large numbers of layoffs in news organizations all over the world (and especially in overdeveloped nations), in The Netherlands we were also confronted with a new kind of energy: independent journalistic ventures such as Follow The Money (a financial-economic investigative journalism collective founded by Eric Smit, Mark Koster, and Arne van der Wal in 2009), Blendle (offering an online kiosk that sells articles from a variety of newspapers and magazines on a pay-per-article basis, started in 2012 by Marten Blankesteijn and Alexander Klöpping, and expanding to Germany and the United States in 2016), and De Correspondent (an online in-depth journalism magazine launched as a crowdfunded initiative in 2013 by Rob Wijnberg, Harald Dunnink, Sebastian Kersten, and Ernst-Jan Pfauth, opening an international division in the United States in 2018) were making headlines, both nationally and internationally. Something was brewing in our home country – a development partly inspired by the economic downturn, and greatly enabled by funding agencies such as the Dutch Journalism Fund, a government-sponsored institution offering subsidies for innovation.