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¦¦¦¦¦ The Project in Brief
To date, the Worlds of Journalism project is one of the largest collaborative endeavors of journalism researchers. The study includes all major regions of the world. Overall, the project set out to map journalistic cultures onto a grid of common dimensions and explore their variation across nations, various types of news organizations and different professional milieus. Another major goal of the study was to identify the driving forces behind the still existing differences in journalistic cultures.
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Carried out as part of a massive and concerted research effort, interviews have been conducted with 1800 journalists working for 356 news organizations in 18 countries. Field researchis now completed in Australia, Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Mexico, Romania, Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, Uganda and the United States.(read more)
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Countries covered in the study:
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In addition to the surveys, the various national research teams also collected data about the news organizations for which the interviewed journalists worked, as well as contextual data deemed relevant for the purpose of the study.
A number of tables with country scores on selected key variables are available for download from the Downloads section. Field research is currently still underway in additional four countries. These nations include Fiji, Greece, Iraq and Portugal.
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According to the study's first results, detachment, non-involvement and providing political information, as well as the watchdog role belong to the functions of journalism of global appeal. Impartiality, the reliability and factualness of information, as well as adherence to universal ethical principles are also appreciated worldwide. Interventionism, however, is much less supported by the journalists. Various aspects of objectivism as well as the importance of separating facts and opinion seem to play out differently in different countries. Western journalists are generally less supportive of any active promotion of particular values, ideas and social change, and they adhere more to universal principles in their ethical decisions.
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Perception of institutional roles, country mean scores:
Question: "The following list describes some of the things the news media do or try to do.Please tell me on a scale of 1 to 5 how important is each of these things in your work." Scale ranges between 5 = "extremely important" and 1 "not important at all." N=1800.
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The study is mainly funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). First findings have been presented at various conferences and universities. Further results will be presented and published as the research teams move on with data analysis. A few selected slides and publications are available at the Publications & Slides section on this web site.
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