Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption: Results from a representative study

Folker Hanusch; Katrina Clifford; Kayt Davies; Peter A English; Janet Fulton; Mia Lindgren; Penny O'Donnell; Jenna Price; Ian Richards; Lawrie Zion

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Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption: Results from a representative study

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Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption: Results from a representative study

Folker Hanusch, Katrina Clifford, Kayt Davies, Peter A English, Janet Fulton, Mia Lindgren, Penny O'Donnell, Jenna Price, Ian Richards and Lawrie Zion

Australian Journalism Review, Vol.37(1), pp.5-19

2015

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Journalism and Professional Writing

Communication and Media Studies

Journalism education's role in shaping students' professional views has been a topic of interest among scholars for the past decade in particular. Increasing numbers of studies are concerned with examining students' backgrounds and views in order to identify what role exposure to the tertiary environment may play in socialising them into the industry. This study reports on the results of the largest survey of Australian journalism students undertaken to date, with a sample size of 1884 students. The study finds that time spent studying journalism appears to be related to changes in role perceptions and news consumption. Final-year students are significantly more likely to support journalism's watchdog role and to reject consumer-oriented and "loyal" roles. They also consume more news than first-year students. On the other hand, journalism education appears to have little impact on views of controversial practices, with only marginal differences between final- and first-year students.

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Title: Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption: Results from a representative study
Authors: Folker Hanusch (Author) - Queensland University of Technology
Katrina Clifford (Author) - University of Tasmania
Kayt Davies (Author) - Edith Cowan University
Peter A English (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
Janet Fulton (Author) - University of Newcastle
Mia Lindgren (Author) - Monash University
Penny O'Donnell (Author) - University of Sydney
Jenna Price (Author) - University of Technology, Sydney
Ian Richards (Author) - University of South Australia
Lawrie Zion (Author) - La Trobe University
Publication details: Australian Journalism Review, Vol.37(1), pp.5-19
Publisher: Journalism Education Association of Australia Inc.
Date published: 2015
ISSN: 0810-2686
Copyright note: Copyright © 2015 Journalism Education Association of Australia Inc. Reproduced here with permission of the publisher. This is an electronic version of an article published in Australian Journalism Review, 37:1. 5-19. Australian Journalism Review is available online at: http://jeaa.org.au/publications/
Organisation Unit: School of Business and Creative Industries; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Creative Industries - Legacy
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449244702621
Output Type: Journal article

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