Maniou, T.A. orcid.org/0000-0003-4299-5221, Trifonova Price, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5036-3585, Clark, M. et al. (1 more author) (2025) Journalistic role performance in Southern European media systems: resilience in times of disruption. International Communication Gazette. ISSN 1748-0485
Abstract
This work is grounded and inspired by studies on journalism's vulnerabilities in times of crisis, role performance, support systems and calls for collective resilience in the face of emerging/new threats to journalism practice. The study adopts a comparative approach and goes beyond what has already been examined by critically assessing resilience strategies that journalists develop to cope with professional threats that have emerged with the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020. The study focuses on journalism practice in Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Malta. Its findings indicate that in the face of this crisis, journalists showed remarkable resilience despite the lack of professional support systems as they turned to their profession's highest values to draw strength and support. The hardships they faced, both personally and professionally, did not deter them from fulfilling their roles, but fuelled them with persistence and rekindled their faith in journalism as a vocation.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2025. Except as otherwise noted, this author-accepted version of a journal article published in International Communication Gazette is made available via the University of Sheffield Research Publications and Copyright Policy under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC-BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Keywords: | Journalistic role performance; European South; resilience; media systems; pandemic crisis |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Journalism Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 14 Feb 2025 11:01 |
Last Modified: | 14 Feb 2025 12:02 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/17480485251314613 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:223304 |