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Research Article

Journalism’s backstage players: the development of journalism professional associations and their roles in a troubled field

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Pages 53-71 | Received 27 Jan 2020, Accepted 04 Mar 2021, Published online: 15 Mar 2021
 

ABSTRACT

Professional associations’ roles in shaping the journalism field have been understudied in news industry research. Adopting a social population ecology perspective, this study provides an across-time analysis of the emergence, rise and variation of the population of US journalism professional associations. In addition to the population demography, content analysis of current association websites was conducted to reveal associations’ patterns of development and adoption of roles. Findings suggest associations are turning inward, embracing roles that are internally oriented towards members, their financial struggles, and their identities, while there is less emphasis on externally oriented roles that serve field-wide needs.

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Notes

1. Skewness and kurtosis fell between −1 and 1 for all dependent variables, and the Levene’s test (of homogeneity of variances across groups) was insignificant for 7 of the 11 role variables, meeting ANOVA assumptions for all but the diversity, intermediator, lobbying, and foster community roles; caution is urged in assessing results for these variables.

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