Cultural journalism in Finland
The journalism study research group is pleased to invite you to a lecture by Maarit Jakkola, University of Tampere, Finland on the topic of Cultural Journalism in Finland.
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Balancing with values: understanding the change of cultural journalism in Finland
Culture departments in newspapers base their activity on the balancing聽
principle. The strive for balance most saliently manifests in the聽
concept of culture that regulates the choice of topics and valuation聽
of artistic objects. As a normative basis it caters for a coverage of聽
certain artistic disciplines defined as essential. The balancing聽
principle is also taken into account in the choice of authorship that聽
basically approaches culture from two different directions, either聽
from the aesthetically oriented artworld or the practically oriented聽
world of journalism. These paradigms of cultural journalism tend to be聽
balanced by organizational strategies.
During the three past decades, the popularization of the cultural聽
canon and the organizational urge for service journalism, as reflected聽
in a content analysis of the culture sections of the Finnish聽
newspapers 1978-2008, have challenged the balancing principle.聽
Cultural journalism has responded to the changes by developing聽
in-house news production and outsourcing reviewing. However, as shown聽
and discussed in the presentation by exploring archival documents, the聽
balancing principle causes distinct formalism in cultural reporting聽
that has often been found the source for critical observations on聽
shortcomings of cultural journalism, perhaps more than the actual聽
changes.
Time: Tuesday October 29th 2013 12.00-14.00 pm
Location: room 645, 6. floor
The lecture will be held in English.
Everyone who is interested in the topic is welcome to attend.
Kontaktperson: anja.salzmann@infomedia.uib.no
