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Cutting Deeper: U.S. Newspapers Wipeout Jobs and Alter Career Identities
dc.contributor.author | Reinardy, Scott | |
dc.contributor.author | Zion, Lawrie | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-30T14:42:35Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-30T14:42:35Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-11-14 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Scott Reinardy & Lawrie Zion (2019): Cutting Deeper: U.S. Newspapers Wipeout Jobs and Alter Career Identities, Journalism Practice, DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2019.1691935 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/29947 | |
dc.description.abstract | Modeled on the “New Beats: A study of Australian Journalism Redundancies” project (2014–17), the purpose of this study was to gather data to examine how forced career change among U.S. newspaper journalists has affected their employment, professional identities, financial situations and perceptions of newspaper journalism. Drawing from a sample of about 350 former and current U.S. newspaper journalists who had lost their jobs, 47%said the career change did not affect their professional identity. Meanwhile, 36% still identify themselves as journalists, although many have not worked in their traditional newspaper job for several years. Similarities between this study and those conducted by the New Beats team include: About 30% of those who left newspapers returned to journalism jobs; the most common new career for the departed was in media communications or marketing; and Australian journalists and American journalists demonstrated a breadth of positive and negative emotions after leaving their media jobs. A common finding between this study and the Australian parent study is that journalists are actively negotiating their professional identity at a profoundly challenging moment, and that despite the role of structural forces, journalists are retaining at least some agency in how they define themselves. | en_US |
dc.publisher | Taylor & Francis | en_US |
dc.subject | Newspaper journalists | en_US |
dc.subject | Job Loss | en_US |
dc.subject | Professional Identity | en_US |
dc.subject | New Beats | en_US |
dc.subject | U.S. Newspapers | en_US |
dc.subject | re-employment | en_US |
dc.title | Cutting Deeper: U.S. Newspapers Wipeout Jobs and Alter Career Identities | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Reinardy, Scott | |
kusw.kudepartment | Journalism | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1080/17512786.2019.1691935 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, author accepted manuscript | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |