Publication details
Informační žurnalistika : Redakce – reportéři – žánry
| Title in English | News Journalism : Newsrooms – Reporters – Genres |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | News Journalism: Newsrooms – Reporters – Genres focuses on the practice of journalism in online and print media, primarily on news journalism understood as broadened news reporting. The author draws on current industry trends, using expert interviews with journalists from leading Czech and Slovak outlets as the primary research source. The book examines the functioning of a key part of the media organization—especially the domestic news desk as a producer of news content—describing the work and the organization of work of reporters and staff writers and, to some extent, news editors. Its aim is to describe how newsroom work is organized, to highlight recurring pitfalls in this activity, and to introduce several genres used in today’s media. In addition to the author’s own interviews with journalists, the study uses interviews collected by journalism students at the Department of Media Studies and Journalism, Masaryk University, for their bachelor theses. This practice-based corpus offers timely insight from inside newsrooms, yet it is rarely used beyond the theses themselves. Alongside scholarly sources, the book draws on the author’s professional experience: more than eleven years as reporter, editor-in-chief, and managing editor across several outlets. For roughly twenty years, he has taught practical journalism at Masaryk University in Brno and has organized student newsroom placements in domestic and foreign media; over 1,700 students have completed three-month placements in dozens of Czech, Slovak, and other international newsrooms. The book does not adopt a strictly traditional format. Based on many years of teaching during which students consistently valued concrete stories from practice, the author decided to break genre boundaries and offer readers concise narratives from his own professional and teaching experience. |