Journalism Students’ Motivations and Expectations of Their Work in Comparative Perspective

Autor: Folker Hanusch, María Luisa Humanes, Fábio Henrique Pereira, Sergio Roses, Lyuba Yez, Mireya Márquez Ramírez, Federico Subervi, Priscilla Boshoff, Salvador de León, Claudia Mellado, Vinzenz Wyss
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Journalism & Mass Communication Educator. 70:141-160
ISSN: 2161-4326
1077-6958
DOI: 10.1177/1077695814554295
Popis: Based on a survey of 4,393 journalism students in Australia, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States, this study provides much-needed comparative evidence about students’ motivations for becoming journalists, their future job plans, and expectations. Findings show not only an almost universal decline in students’ desire to work in journalism by the end of their program but also important national differences in terms of the journalistic fields in which they want to work, as well as their job expectations. The results reinforce the need to take into account national contexts when examining journalism education across the globe.
Databáze: OpenAIRE