Journalistic interventionism
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Journalistic interventionism "reflects the extent to which journalists pursue a particular mission and promote certain values". Journalists with a high interventionist attitude do not report neutrally and objectively but are engaged in the subjects they are reporting about. An interventionist reporting style aims at influencing public opinion. Moreover, "journalism cultures that follow an interventionist approach may act on behalf of the socially disadvantaged or as mouthpiece of a political party and other groups whose interest are at stake".
Range of journalistic interventionism
Journalistic interventionism takes place in politics such as in election campaigns, and in peace journalism. Thomas Hanitzsch, associate professor of Communication Studies and Media Research at LMU Munich, proposes a continuum on which the degree of interventionism is measured. "The intervention pole of the continuum becomes manifest in role models like the 'participant', 'advocate', and 'missionary'" with journalists taking a more active role in their reporting. There are two factors that interrelate interventionism and journalistic culture: Distance to power holders and market orientation. Journalists with distance to power holders are expected to be more skeptical whereas journalists with close proximity to power holders tend to be more defensive of them and do not intervene as much as the skeptical journalist. Journalists in a market-oriented news culture, on the other hand, perceive citizens as consumers.
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