Based on interviews with journalists during the 2020 racial justice protests, this study uses field theory and doxa to explore to what extent journalists who cover social justice issues are redrawing the boundary between journalism and activism. I use #BlackoutTuesday and journalists’ discourse about posting black squares on Instagram in support of #BlackLivesMatter to examine social media’s role in evolving perceptions about objectivity and stance-taking. Journalists saw social media as creating an opening for objectivity to move from an orthodox value to a debatable heterodox one. I argue these journalists acted as change agents, reforming the journalist field from within.

基于对 2020 年种族正义抗议活动期间记者的采访，本研究使用场论和 doxa 来探索报道社会正义问题的记者在多大程度上重新划定了新闻与激进主义之间的界限。我使用#BlackoutTuesday 和记者关于在 Instagram 上发布黑色方块以支持#BlackLivesMatter 的言论来检验社交媒体在演变对客观性和立场采取的看法中的作用。记者们认为社交媒体为客观性从正统价值观转变为有争议的异端价值观创造了机会。我认为这些记者充当了变革推动者，从内部改革了记者领域。