”Det går fort att rasera ett förtroende” : en kvalitativ intervjustudie om hur politikreportrar upprätthåller yrkesrollens ideal om opartiskhet även i privata sammanhang
(2025) JOUK10 20242Journalism
- Abstract
- The ideal of impartiality shapes not only the practices negotiated by reporters in the editorial processes in the newsrooms, but also how they are able to act in private situations. Drawing on theoretical concepts such as role performance and role conception, strategic rituals and front and backstage, this paper examines how political reporters practice particular strategies and performances to uphold the ideal of impartiality. It also investigates how the ideal of impartiality affects the access political reporters have to private rooms, as well as the performance they stage in said rooms. The study is based on six qualitative interviews with Swedish political reporters. The most important findings of the study conclude that political... (More)
- The ideal of impartiality shapes not only the practices negotiated by reporters in the editorial processes in the newsrooms, but also how they are able to act in private situations. Drawing on theoretical concepts such as role performance and role conception, strategic rituals and front and backstage, this paper examines how political reporters practice particular strategies and performances to uphold the ideal of impartiality. It also investigates how the ideal of impartiality affects the access political reporters have to private rooms, as well as the performance they stage in said rooms. The study is based on six qualitative interviews with Swedish political reporters. The most important findings of the study conclude that political reporters, depending on whether, or not, they define a situation as part of a front or backstage, adapt their role performance to keep their distance to the field they cover and maintain the trust of their audience. The paper also finds that for political reporters most private rooms are not deemed private, thus shaping how they interact with their surroundings. The paper therefore suggests an expansion of the concepts of role performance, role conception and strategic rituals, to reach outside of the walls of the newsroom in order to sketch a complete portrait of the relationship between the ideal of impartiality and the role performance of political reporters. (Less)
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- author
- Lindberg, Erik LU and Ivarsson, Elsa LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- JOUK10 20242
- year
- 2025
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Impartiality, objectivity, political reporters and news journalists, role performance, strategic rituals, front and backstage, journalistic norms, ideals and ethics
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9182865
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- 2025-03-05 12:25:26
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abstract = {{The ideal of impartiality shapes not only the practices negotiated by reporters in the editorial processes in the newsrooms, but also how they are able to act in private situations. Drawing on theoretical concepts such as role performance and role conception, strategic rituals and front and backstage, this paper examines how political reporters practice particular strategies and performances to uphold the ideal of impartiality. It also investigates how the ideal of impartiality affects the access political reporters have to private rooms, as well as the performance they stage in said rooms. The study is based on six qualitative interviews with Swedish political reporters. The most important findings of the study conclude that political reporters, depending on whether, or not, they define a situation as part of a front or backstage, adapt their role performance to keep their distance to the field they cover and maintain the trust of their audience. The paper also finds that for political reporters most private rooms are not deemed private, thus shaping how they interact with their surroundings. The paper therefore suggests an expansion of the concepts of role performance, role conception and strategic rituals, to reach outside of the walls of the newsroom in order to sketch a complete portrait of the relationship between the ideal of impartiality and the role performance of political reporters.}},
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language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{”Det går fort att rasera ett förtroende” : en kvalitativ intervjustudie om hur politikreportrar upprätthåller yrkesrollens ideal om opartiskhet även i privata sammanhang}},
year = {{2025}},
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