Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Journalism Students’ Interpretive Repertoires for a Changing Occupation

ABSTRACT

Amid ongoing disruption, discourse about journalism increasingly emphasizes innovation within the newsroom and the rise of entrepreneurial initiatives outside it. This article uses the concept of interpretive repertoires to explore how students enrolled in journalism programmes in Britain and the Netherlands understand innovation and entrepreneurialism in relation to changing industry circumstances and long-standing conceptualizations of occupational norms and behaviours. We find shared repertoires that embrace technological change, but generally within an acceptance of traditional normative practice.

KEYWORDS:

• Change
• digital technology
• entrepreneurial journalism
• innovation
• interpretive repertoires
• journalism education

Disclosure Statement

The authors are employed by the institutions included in this study. They report no other potential conflict of interest.

ORCID

Jane B. Singer http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5777-9065

Marcel Broersma http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7342-3472