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Soft power, hard news: How journalists at state-funded transnational media legitimize their work
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How do journalists working for state-funded international news organizations conceptualize and legitimize their relationship to the governments which support them? In what circumstances might such journalists seek to resist the diplomatic strategies of their funding states? To address these questions, we conducted a comparative study of journalists working for international news organizations funded by the Chinese, US, UK and Qatari governments. Using 52 interviews with journalists covering humanitarian issues, we explain how they minimized tensions between their diplomatic role and dominant norms of journalistic autonomy by drawing on three – broadly shared - legitimizing narratives,. In the first ‘exclusionary’ narrative, journalists differentiated their ‘truthful’ news reporting from the ‘false’ state ‘propaganda’ of a common Other, the Russian-funded network, RT. In the second ‘fuzzifying’ narrative, journalists deployed the loose notion of ‘soft power’ as an ambivalent ‘boundary concept’ (Allen 2009; Star 2010), to defuse conflicts between journalistic and diplomatic agendas. In the final ‘inversion’ narrative, journalists argued that, paradoxically, their dependence on funding states gave them greater ‘operational autonomy’ (Murdock 1983). While all three strategic narratives involved different forms of ‘boundary work’ (Gieryn 1983), unlike other kinds of ‘boundary work’, these narratives accommodated state interests and objectives. Even when journalists did resist their funding states, this tended to be hidden or partial. Journalists’ resistance also tended to be prompted less by concerns about ‘media imperialism’ than by severe threats to their personal cultural capital. Thus we suggest that if transnational news is a field, it is very weakly autonomous.
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HM Sociology; HX Socialism. Communism. Anarchism; JZ International relations; PN Literature (General)
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URL: https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/24038/
https://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/24038/3/Soft%20power%20hard%20news-%20%20final%20MS%20for%20Int%20Journal%20of%20Press%20Politics.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1177/1940161220922832
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From London to Leipzig and back: (Post-)Punk, ‘Endzeit’ and Gothic in the GDR
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'The Prague Exit': representations of East German migration in the official press of the Czechoslovak Communist Party
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Lives of the Orange Men A Biographical History of the Polish Orange Alternative Movement
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Shakespeare's influence on Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt school critical theorists
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Alienation, Contradiction, Dialectical materialism, Engels, Historical materialism, Ideology, Lenin, Marx, Marxism
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Science as practical criticism : an investigation into revolutionary subjectivity in Marx's critique of political economy
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Review of James D. White, Karl Marx and the Intellectual Origins of Dialectical Materialism
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Emergentist Marxism : a materialistic application of realism in the social sciences
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The Discipline of International Relations and Dialectical Thinking: A Reply to Our Critics
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Sleeping Beauty and the Dialectical Awakening: On the Potential of Dialectic for International Relations
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Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. Cohen
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Marxism and the Dialectical Method: A Critique of G.A. Cohen
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Development strategies in the Caribbean with particular reference to socialist countries
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Cohen, Robin. - : Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology, Department of Caribbean Studies, 1984
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