This study examines how diverse US-based journalists—both Black, Indigenous, and people of color and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer [or sometimes questioning] and others—perform their diversity within newsrooms. Applying Goffman’s theory of dramaturgy, the study illustrates the nuanced differences in terms of how journalists perform their diverse identities differently on both the frontstage and backstage. These differences are explained through the proliferation of historical norms such as objectivity in journalism in the United States, norms that curtail how diversity can be enacted. The study introduces the concept of professional backstaging, a concept that describes how professional norms can bypass organizational and individual agency to force certain actions off the frontstage. Finally, the discussion theorizes how these findings—and particularly the concept of professional backstaging—can contribute to future work across studies of media organizations and within the discipline of organizational communication.

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新闻多样性的专业幕后

这项研究考察了美国不同的记者——包括黑人、原住民、有色人种、女同性恋、男同性恋、双性恋、跨性别者、酷儿（或有时质疑）和其他人——如何在新闻编辑室中表现出多样性。该研究应用戈夫曼的戏剧理论，阐释了记者在台前和后台如何不同地表现不同身份的细微差别。这些差异可以通过历史规范的扩散来解释，例如美国新闻业的客观性，这些规范限制了多样性的实施。该研究引入了专业后台的概念，这个概念描述了专业规范如何绕过组织和个人机构，迫使某些行为离开前台。最后，讨论理论化了这些发现——特别是专业后台的概念——如何为媒体组织研究和组织传播学科内的未来工作做出贡献。