dc.contributor.author
Medeiros, Débora
dc.contributor.author
Badr, Hanan
dc.date.accessioned
2022-11-10T09:06:03Z
dc.date.available
2022-11-10T09:06:03Z
dc.identifier.uri
https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/35295
dc.identifier.uri
http://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-35011
dc.description.abstract
This article develops the concept of engaged journalism outside a US context, comparing how engaged journalists in Brazil and Egypt discursively negotiate their professional positions in the face of far-right governments’ constraints. Engaged journalists are professional journalists working in alternative media and strongly committed to a political position. Inspired by Bourdieu’s field theory, the article investigates how engaged journalists legitimise themselves by contesting legacy journalism from the margins through innovative digital formats in times of blurred boundaries. A qualitative content analysis of 21 articles (editorials and op-ed pieces) published in The Intercept Brasil and MadaMasr from 2015 to 2020 (a) develops the concept of engaged journalism in alternative media, (b) reconstructs how two media initiatives in the Global South discursively negotiated editorial actions and distinguished themselves from legacy journalism, and (c) proposes a global transferable understanding of engaged journalism based on research in two media systems. Three themes emerge: raison d’être and purpose, tensions between democratic and authoritarian norms, and the establishment of legitimacy through an emphasis on journalistic practices, revealing that engaged journalists are driven by media criticism, but still position themselves within journalism, offering a radical new path. This article contributes to theory-building about engaged journalism in the Global South.
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dc.format.extent
21 Seiten
dc.rights.uri
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject
Alternative media
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dc.subject
engaged journalism
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dc.subject
The Intercept Brasil
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dc.subject
qualitative content analysis
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dc.subject.ddc
000 Informatik, Informationswissenschaft, allgemeine Werke::070 Publizistische Medien, Journalismus, Verlagswesen::079 Journalismus und Zeitungen in anderen geografischen Gebieten
dc.title
Strengthening Journalism from the Margins: Engaged Journalism in Brazil and Egypt
dc.type
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.doi
10.1080/21670811.2022.2078386
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.journaltitle
Digital Journalism
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.number
8
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pagestart
1342
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.pageend
1362
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.volume
10
dcterms.bibliographicCitation.url
https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2078386
refubium.affiliation
Politik- und Sozialwissenschaften
refubium.affiliation.other
Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Arbeitsstelle Journalistik
refubium.resourceType.isindependentpub
no
dcterms.accessRights.openaire
open access
dcterms.isPartOf.eissn
2167-082X
refubium.resourceType.provider
WoS-Alert