De Nederlandse samenleving is de laatste decennia ingrijpend veranderd. Geleidelijk ontstond wat we nu de multiculturele samenleving noemen. In die samenleving staan instituties als politiek, justitie en media onder kritiek. De journalistiek treft het verwijt onvoldoende in staat te zijn in te spelen op en rekening te houden met die sterk veranderende samenleving waarin groepen dreigen de aansluiting te verliezen en waar onbegrip voor culturele diversiteit toeneemt. Bovendien zijn er felle debatten over de vrijheid van meningsuiting. Achter die debatten gaan fundamentele vragen schuil: hoe verhouden zich de grondrechten vrijheid van meningsuiting en godsdienstvrijheid in een westerse democratische rechtsstaat? Zijn er grenzen aan de uitingsvrijheid? Zo ja, waar liggen die dan? Uit onderzoek blijkt dat etnische minderheidsgroepen zich steeds minder thuis voelen bij de nationale media. Ze voelen zich niet gerepresenteerd als gelijkwaardig burger en voelen zich negatief in beeld gebracht. Het antwoord 'meer kleur op redacties' is onvoldoende gebleken en bovendien moeilijk te verwezenlijken. Minstens zo belangrijk is het zoeken van antwoorden op vragen als: wat betekent het voor journalisten om te werken in een multiculturele samenleving, met alle spanningen van dien? Welke eisen stelt die samenleving aan de competenties waarover journalisten moeten beschikken? Behoort het tot de maatschappelijke verantwoordelijkheid van media en journalistiek om bij te dragen tot integratie en sociale cohesie?
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[Voor Full text zie Link (bij abonnement) ] Er waren geen spandoeken, geen barricades, geen bedrijfsbezettingen. Journalisten kaapten de krant niet, de vakbond riep geen staking uit, er werden geen Kamervragen gesteld. Het herschikken van de Nederlandse krantenmarkt voltrok zich in gepaste stilte. PCM-Uitgevers kocht in 1995 NRC en AD en voegde dat toe aan de Volkskrant, Trouw en Het Parool. Nederland was even te klein. De pluriformiteit zou bedreigd worden. Over de dreigende eenvormigheid verschenen proefschriften, werden symposia georganiseerd en Kamervragen gesteld. Twintig jaar later, bij de recente uitbreiding van De Persgroep, werd alleen een zucht van verlichting gehoord.
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Verifying information is one of the core activities of journalism. However, recent research shows that many stories derive from unchecked information from news agencies and PR material. That being said, reporters who do not use this pre-packaged material, but who instead produce original stories based on independent research, might be journalists who stay devoted to the verification of information. Therefore, this study focuses on in-depth stories that originated inside the newsroom. We expected that these kinds of stories would be checked and double-checked, because time constraints are less important and these stories are characteristic of independent, quality journalism. Contrary to this expectation, the results show that even these kinds of stories are not always vetted. The lack of time was seldom mentioned as an excuse. Our research points to avoidance mechanisms which inhibit journalists from verifying their information.
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Wereldwijd onderzoek: Hoe gebruiken nieuwsmedia social media? Jongeren lezen geen krant meer, ze kijken op hun smartphone die ze altijd bij de hand hebben. Binnen het lectoraat social media en reputatiemanagement van NHL hogeschool te Leeuwarden heeft een groep internationale studenten in 12 landen onderzoek gedaan. Hierbij hebben ze meer dan 150 social media sites bestudeerd van nieuws media. De resultaten maken deel uit van een internationaal onderzoek van NHL Hogeschool en Haaga Helia University. De onderzoeksvraag was: Wat speelt zich af in de nieuwsmedia? Persbureaus kunnen het overzicht gebruiken om hun social media te optimaliseren. En voor ieder die journalistiek een warm hart toedraagt is het interessante informatie over de nieuwsmedia in een overgangssituatie (2nd edition)
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Huub Evers behandelt de rol die de media spelen bij het bevorderen of juist het tegengaan van cohesie. Zijn de media in hun functie binnen de samenleving te vergelijken met godsdienstigheid? En hoe ‘doen’ zij het dan: bevorderen zij gemeenschapszin of bewerkstelligen ze juist het tegendeel?
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Self-regulation in the Netherlands: Journalists opening up to a more demanding public. In: The Trust factor report on self-regulation 2015
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In this article, the main question is whether and, if so, to what extent online journalism raises new moral issues and, if any, what kind of answers are preferable. Or do questions merely appear new, since they are really old ones in an electronic wrapping, old wine in new bottles? And how does journalism deal with the moral aspects of online journalism? The phenomenon of the Internet emerged in our society a few years ago. Since then, a large number of Dutch people have gone online, and the World Wide Web is now an integral part of our range of means of communication. Dutch journalism is online too, although certainly not in the lead. More and more journalists use the Internet as a source, especially for background information. Newspapers have their web sites, where the online version of the printed paper can be read. And that is it for the time being. There are no more far-reaching developments at present, certainly not on a large scale. Real online journalism is rather scarce in the Netherlands. The debate concerning the moral aspects of online journalism is mainly being conducted in the United States. First of all, by way of introduction, I will present an outline of online journalism. The first instance is the online version of the newspaper. Here, only to a certain degree new issues come up for discussion, since the reputation of reliability and accuracy of the papers, in spite of all criticism, also applies to their online versions. Besides, especially in the United States and increasingly in European countries as well, there is the so-called dotcom journalism, the e-zines, the online news sites without any relationship with printed newspapers. This may be the reason why these sites do not have a strong commitment to moral standards, at least as they have developed in the journalistic culture of the newspapers. After having outlined the moral issues arising in online journalism, the question will be addressed whether and, if so, to what extent it is meaningful and desirable to develop instruments of self-regulation for this new phenomenon of journalism.
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The Research Group for Governmental Communication has carried out a trend study of governmental communication within The Netherlands (1). Research topics were: the major tasks for communication, current issues, profiling the communication department, and policy plans for communication. Another study focused on quality control as a management function for the communication department (2). A tool was developed to measure the communication quality of governmental organisations. Looking back on the results of both studies we asked ourselves the question: How can the academic field pursue the research of communication practice in governmental organisations and then support this field with results? The article focuses on governmental communication in The Netherlands, but the results might also be interesting for researchers and communication experts in governmental communication in other countries. The author argues that the priorities in the research agenda within the field of governmental communication should include: monitoring methods, quality control and accountability.
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Regional news media are facing tough times, as they lose readers and advertisers rapidly. In The Netherlands, circulation decreased from 2.7 million in 1990 to 1.8 million in 2010, household penetration declined from 47 percent to 25 percent, and the number of titles went down from 35 to 18 in the same period. We interviewed managers and executives (2009 - 2010) of nine of the eighteen regional newspapers in The Netherlands, to analyse if and how they consider convergence (the transition to an integrated newsroom) a significant option to regain readers and advertisers. This study is part of a research project on the potential (long-term) consequences of convergence for the organizational structure, the work procedures, journalistic quality, and business models of regional news media. Our first results show that convergence is, indeed, embraced as a solution. However, views on how to approach the new market for online news through an integrated newsroom differ significantly. Management tends to operate safely, experimenting with small projects that can be discontinued easily, while editors and journalists on the work floor wish to invest heavily in both the education of employees and technical convergence on a more structural basis. In its examination of how convergence is strategically and operationally changing regional media in The Netherlands this study is the first of its kind.
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