The digital era has posed innumerable challenges to the business and practice of journalism. Journalism Re-examined sets out an institutional theoretical framework for exploring the journalistic institution in the digital age and analyses how it has responded to those profound changes in its social and professional practices, norms and values. Building their analysis around the concept of these changes as reorientations, the contributors present a number of case studies, with a particular emphasis on journalism in the Nordic countries. They explore not just straight news and investigative journalism, but also delve into lifestyle and documentary coverage, all with the aim of understanding the reorientations facing journalism and the ways they might present a sustainable future path.
Martin Eide, Ph.D., is Professor at Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. Eide's main area of research has been on the role and power media and journalists have in society. He has also done extensive work on political communication and the political role of media as well as on sociological aspects of news-production. Eide has written several books and articles about Norwegian popular journalism. He has also conducted several research projects focusing on journalism and media history, e.g. on the popularization of Norway's largest newspaper and on the history of an editorial role in a Norwegian context.