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    A Journalistic Cosmology A Sketch of Some Social and Mental Structures of the Norwegian Journalistic Field
    (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2012-12) Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Carlsson, Ulla
    Can Norwegian journalism be meaningfully understood as constituting a social field in Pierre Bourdieu ́s sense? And if so, how did this field emerge historically, and what is its fundamental structure? Following a structural history of the rise of journalism in Norway, a model of this field in 2005 is sketched through correspondence analysis using survey data on Norwegian journalists and editors. The analysis suggest a bipolar structure: a first dimension of capital volume that is closely linked to age, gender and medium type, and a second dimension that opposes agents with different degrees of internal recognition (sym - bolic capital), which in particular separates specialized news journalists in national and larger regional journalistic publications from journalists in the local press and magazines. Special attention is given to the link between this social cosmos and a specific cosmology of journalistic beliefs and position-takings, the relation between journalistic power and social class, and the intertwinedness of symbolic and economic dominance in this field.
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    The Nordic Journalists of Tomorrow. An Exploration of First Year Journalism Students in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden
    (Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom, 2009-05) Hovden, Jan Fredrik; Bjørnsen, Gunn; Ottosen, Rune; Willig, Ida; Zilliakus-Tikkanen, Henrika; Carlsson, Ulla; Faculty of Media and Journalism, Volda University College; Faculty of Journalism, Library and Information Science, Oslo University College; Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies, Roskilde University; Swedish School of Social Science, University of Helsinki
    The present article summarizes the findings of a survey among first-year journalism students in Denmark, Finland, Sweden and Norway. The survey covers a wide array of subjects including social recruitment, motivation for studying journalism, preferences regarding future journalistic working life, views on the role of journalism in society, attitudes toward the profession, journalistic ideals and ideas about what are the most important traits for journalists. The study reveals significant differences between journalism students in the Nordic countries. The analysis appears to support a ‘nation type’ interpretation of attitudes among journalists, linked to different national traditions, in explaining the differences found. Our results clearly indicate the importance of traditional sociological explanations of behavior for the understanding of journalistic preferences and ambitions. For example, the choice of preferred topics is strongly gendered and appears as the sexual division of labor sublimated into journalistic preferences.