Newswork and Precarity

Kalyani Chadha is an associate professor at the Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University. Her research focuses on the media and journalism landscape in India, media globalization as well as the implications of new media technologies with particular emphasis on international contexts. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journalism Studies, Media, Culture and Society, Journalism Practice, and the International Journal of Communication. She serves on the editorial boards of Journalism Practice and Digital Journalism. Linda Steiner is a professor at the Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland. She studies how and when gender matters in news and newsrooms and how feminists use media. Other research areas include media ethics, journalism history, and citizen journalism. She has coauthored or coedited nine books and has authored many book chapters and refereed articles. She is currently editor of Journalism & Communication Monographs.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Global Precarity’s Uneven Impacts on Journalism: Linda Steiner and Kalyani Chadha

Part I: THEORETICAL, HISTORICAL and ECONOMIC CONTEXT:








Kalyani Chadha and Linda Steiner: Precarity: The Concept, Evolution, Forms and Applications



John Nerone: The Labor History of Newswork from Industrialization to the Digital Age



Krishnan Vasudevan: Dead on Arrival: Deadspin’s Fight with its Private Equity Owner and The Rise of Defector
Part II: APPLICATIONS TO JOURNALISM SPECIALIZATIONS AND INNOVATIONS.




Carey L. Higgins-Dobney: Producing in precarity: A Focus on Freelancing in U.S. Local Television Newsrooms



Lindsay Palmer: The Precarious Labor of Freelance War Correspondents



Cherian George: "All the news that’s fit to print. Except for cartoons. Those things are scary"



Karin Wahl-Jorgensen: Precarity in Community Journalism Start-Ups: The Deep Story of Sacrifice



Sofie Willemsen and Tamara Witschge: "Becoming Real": Professional Precarity in Entrepreneurial Journalism
Part III: Regional and National Particularities




Adriana Amado, Mireya Márquez-Ramírez and Silvio Waisbord: Labor Precarity and Gig Journalism in Latin America



Harry Dugmore: Endogenous "Precarious Professionalism" in African Newswork





Mirjam Gollmitzer: Alleviating or Exacerbating Precarity? How Freelancers in Germany and Canada Experience Policies Regulating Insecure Journalistic labor



PART IV: RESISTANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY






Erwin van ‘t Hof and Mark Deuze: Making Precarity Productive



Nicole S. Cohen and Greig de Peuter: Collectively Confronting Journalists’ Precarity through Unionization



Verica Rupar: The Responsibilities of Journalism Educators