In Search of Popular Journalism in New Zealand

Simple item page
dc.contributor.authorMatheson, D.
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-30T23:01:47Z
dc.date.available2014-03-30T23:01:47Z
dc.date.issued2007en
dc.description.abstractThis paper explores the discourses of popular legitimacy deployed by New Zealand journalists. It studies in particular the ways that journalists reflect upon their relationship with “the people”, through their comments in such forums as trade publications, addresses to readers in the voice of the editor and memoirs. It argues that the dominant journalistic voices in Aotearoa New Zealand provide a narrow and poorly defined set of resources to describe how journalism practice relates to those outside the elite spaces of most public debate or to describe the grounds of journalists’ legitimacy as a set of spokespeople for society. Discourses of “the people” are marked by a discomfort with the category and are rarely politicized, when they are not elided away under competing terms such as community or public. The paper argues that the weakness of a sense of popular legitimacy has consequences for the quality of both journalism and of political and cultural debate in the country.en
dc.identifier.citationMatheson, D. (2007) In Search of Popular Journalism in New Zealand. Journalism Studies, 8(1), pp. 28-41.en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1080/14616700601056817
dc.identifier.issn1461-670X
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10092/9020
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. School of Language, Social and Political Sciencesen
dc.publisherUniversity of Canterbury. Media and Communicationsen
dc.rights.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10092/17651en
dc.subjectAotearoa New Zealand journalismen
dc.subjectjournalism cultureen
dc.subjectjournalism discourseen
dc.subjectpopular journalismen
dc.subject.anzsrcField of Research::19 - Studies in the Creative Arts and Writing::1903 - Journalism and Professional Writing::190399 - Journalism and Professional Writing not elsewhere classifieden
dc.titleIn Search of Popular Journalism in New Zealanden
dc.typeJournal Article
Files
Original bundle
Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
No Thumbnail Available
Name:
12603997_mathesonfinal.doc
Size:
88.5 KB
Format:
Microsoft Word
Download
Collections
Arts: Journal Articles