Marek Chyliński

The journalistic autopoiesis. Journalistic self-regulation and self-esteem in discourse

This article examines journalism considered as a profession, an attitude towards the world, and a public and ethical duty requiring charisma and leadership. Through analyzing the media system the author concludes that the journalistic identity currently undergoes a crisis. This paper sketches out the assumptions on which a theory of self-definition, self-regulation and self-esteem in journalism is based, as well as the kind of insights it promises, and how it can be applied in journalism research and practice. The paper is an attempt to consider and compare the contemporary issues of professional identity based on the crisis of leadership in journalism and media.
 

Journalists as a professional category in the context of the press law changes , postulates of media management groups and attempts to introduce corporate limits

Journalism, belonging to a group of creative professions, should emphasize the following categories: social status and required qualifications, personal space, and professional, corporate and public-legal loads. Based on these factors, this study attempts to identify identity, legal and economic status as well as the responsibilities of the members of the community of professional journalists. It has been established that a journalist is a person who works intellectually over the material collection, creating texts, broadcasts, programs, internet publications. At the same time, this person remains in a stable relationship with the editors.
Taken in mid-2012, the amendment to the Press Law takes into account the elements of the legal and economic status of the journalistic profession. Furthermore, the article defines journalism as a modern professional category in the context of European legislation, national as well as environmental discussion of journalists and publishers associated with the changes in the perception of journalism.

Framing and the Management of Information in Journalism

Information management plays an extremely important role in journalism, mainly because journalists are autonomous in selecting and prioritizing topics. Walter Gieber wrote: “News is what newspapermen make it,” emphasizing the omnipotence of journalists and editors in the process of selecting information , primarily in the context of journalism winning or losing its credibility. One of the instruments of control over the contents of communication in the media is framing. This is an important tool used in editorial work, to predict the life of a media event. The article is an attempt to outline the relationship between framing and management of information in modern journalism

The truth as a principle of journalistic discourse

The paradigm of truth is a precondition for social communication; it defines the recognition of events, gives meaning to the facts and formulates messages.
The article attempts to unravel the dilemma of whether the formula of truth in journalism transmission is identical with the philosophical, juridical and ethical formula. Moreover, the paper considers whether the truth might partially result from the character of the means of communication which transmit the information.
The author proposes several theses referring to truth as a condition of freedom of speech and the adequate, discursive, and paradoxical nature of truth. These theses are meant to determine the axis of the discussion about the idea of truth in the media and to answer the question about the veracity of the journalistic discourse formula.

Journalism research methodologies and sources of information for journalists in the light of media tests

The presented paper deals with the issue of communication activities related to the creation of media messages, with particular attention paid to the processes of searching for information by journalists. Ascribing to journalistic research the fundamental role in media communication activities, the author turned his attention to an area less intensively studied in terms of factual material and methodology. Thanks to a new approach, the author was able to make certain contribution to knowledge on contemporary media messages. According to one of the adopted hypotheses, the lowering level of the media discourse is caused by methodological deficiencies and negligence in searching for and acquiring information. The correctness of the hypothesis was proved by collecting precise data documenting a decrease in the amount of time dedicated to research.
 

Quality management in journalistic work processes

The subject of the analysis is the sphere of media economization and specifically the problem of quality in journalism. The article tries to show that quality assurance in journalism is a task not only for authors, editorial teams, media companies, it is a social issue. The aim of the article is to indicate the most important dimensions and criteria of quality and to build a theoretical interpretation of quality management adequate to the work of journalists and the functioning of media organizations. The author suggests that the crisis of responsible journalism coincided with the crisis of democracy observed in all media models. In Polish scientific discourse, the subject of quality in journalism is almost absent. This lack is not compensated by considerations devoted to professionalism, professional culture, and even more so to deontology of journalism. The presented article attempts to include the issue of quality in the economic theory of media, indicating areas in which high-quality journalistic products or services create value that increases the competitive advantage.