TY - JOUR
T1 - Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption
T2 - Results from a representative study
AU - Hanusch, Folker
AU - Clifford, Katrina
AU - Davies, Kayt
AU - English, Peter
AU - Fulton, Janet
AU - Lindgren, Mia Kersti Maria
AU - O'Donnell, Penny
AU - Price, Jenna
AU - Richards, Ian
AU - Zion, Lawrie
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://search.informit.com.au/fullText;dn=489305955656063;res=IELLCC
M3 - Article
SN - 0810-2686
VL - 37
SP - 5
EP - 19
JO - Australian Journalism Review
JF - Australian Journalism Review
IS - 1
ER -