Through a lens of boundary work and role conception, this study seeks to understand how political journalists discursively construct the role of the newspaper editorial endorsement. Researchers conducted long-form interviews with political journalists in the United States (n = 64) to understand how journalists conducted boundary work relative to endorsements. Journalists argued that the 2016 election was a decisive event in which political news endorsements lost their original objective. Political journalists described laboring to discursively distance themselves from the endorsement process and viewed political endorsements not only as ineffective, but also as jeopardizing their news organizations’ independence.

通过边界工作和角色概念的视角，本研究旨在了解政治记者如何以话语方式构建报纸社论代言的角色。研究人员对美国的政治记者 ( n = 64)进行了长期采访，以了解记者如何进行与代言相关的边界工作。记者认为，2016 年大选是一场决定性事件，政治新闻代言失去了最初的目标。政治记者描述了努力与背书过程保持距离，并认为政治背书不仅无效，而且会危及新闻机构的独立性。