Abstract

This article analyses and compares the organizational structures of alternative media projects in Turkey and Greece; two countries that have recently witnessed networked social movements. Drawing on in-depth interviews with journalists working in six alternative media projects, we inform on the news production process, the news values and normative ideals adopted by these journalists while covering the news and explore if they make use of similar or different organizational structures. Our research invites a rethinking of alternative media to focus on their unique features and the differing experiences and values of their journalists. Our findings indicate that, alternative professional journalists’ news production routines in both countries vary based on their organization’s scale, normative ideals, the political and media contexts in which they operate. In this study, we reflect on what these different news production routines accomplish or fail to, and their broader implications for journalism.

摘要

本文分析比较了土耳其和希腊另类媒体项目的组织结构；最近见证了网络社会运动的两个国家。通过对在六个替代媒体项目中工作的记者的深入采访，我们了解新闻制作过程、这些记者在报道新闻时所采用的新闻价值观和规范理想，并探讨他们是否使用相似或不同的组织结构。我们的研究邀请对另类媒体的重新思考，以关注其独特的特征以及其记者的不同经历和价值观。我们的研究结果表明，两国的另类专业记者的新闻制作程序因其组织的规模、规范理想、他们运作的政治和媒体环境。在这项研究中，我们反思了这些不同的新闻制作程序完成或失败的事情，以及它们对新闻业的更广泛影响。