The State of the News Beat: Expertise and division of labour in current newsrooms

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The State of the News Beat: Expertise and division of labour in current newsrooms
Session Code:
JRE-3
Chair:
Eddy
Borges-Rey
Northwestern University - Qatar
542
MPS paper - Entrepreneur-journalists: From beat reporting to generalist reporting in Nigeria
Session Code:
JRE-3
Emeka
Umejei
American University of Nigeria
686
MPS paper - Changing the beat? A comparative study of shifts in local online newsmaking in Finland, France, Germany, Portugal, Spain and the U.K.
Session Code:
JRE-3
joy
jenkins
University of Tennessee, (Knoxville)
Pedro
Jerónimo
University of Beira Interior
688
MPS paper - Thematic beats as micro-cultures? The relation between news topics and role performance across news organisations and cultures
Session Code:
JRE-3
Claudia
Mellado
Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso
Mireya
Márquez-Ramírez
Universidad Iberoamericana, MEXICO
Cornelia
Mothes
Macromedia University of Applied Sciences, GERMANY
María Luisa
Humanes
Rey Juan Carlos University,
689
MPS paper - Being “specialists” for all beats: The rise of the “data beat” and “flexible expertise” in three UK national newspapers
Session Code:
JRE-3
Jingrong
Tong
the University of Sheffield