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Diversity through Dualism: The Balancing Principle as an Organizational Strategy in Culture Departments of Newspapers

Nordicom Review

Volume 34 (2013): Issue s1 (December 2013)

By: Maarit Jaakkola

Open Access

|Mar 2020

Figures & Tables

Average Length of Texts 1978–2008

	1978	1983	1988	1993	1998	2003	2008
Average story length (in characters)	2360	2394	2279	2148	2167	2097	1691
Average length of reviews (in characters)	3596	3213	2916	2686	2620	2689	2005
Average length of news (in characters)	2389	2310	1982	1498	1749	1598	1542

Coverage of Artistic Disciplines 1978–2008 (N=texts)

	1978		1983		1988		1993		1998		2003		2008		Mean
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	%
Literature	105	15.2	161	21.3	133	16.3	107	14.4	128	15.3	180	18.7	251	25.3	18.1
Classical music	138	20.0	147	19.4	158	19.4	141	19.0	147	17.6	121	12.6	100	10.1	16.9
Theatre	85	12.3	91	12.0	91	11.2	91	12.2	95	11.4	97	10.1	93	9.4	11.2
Fine arts	74	10.7	82	10.8	101	12.4	98	13.2	97	11.6	99	10.3	90	9.1	11.2
Film	56	8.1	45	6.0	49	6.0	49	6.6	81	9.7	90	9.3	132	13.3	8.4
Popular music	24	3.5	32	4.2	36	4.4	21	2.8	45	5.4	80	8.3	97	9.8	5.5
Cultural politics	53	7.7	76	10.1	57	7.0	63	8.5	36	4.3	53	5.5	52	5.2	6.9
Other	155	22.5	122	16.1	191	23.4	173	23.3	207	24.8	243	25.2	178	17.9	21.9
Total	690	100.0	756	100	816	100	743	100	836	100	963	100	993	100	-

Coverage of Articles (%) Written by the Various Types of Journalists by Genres 1978–2008

	1978	1983	1988	1993	1998	2003	2008	Mean
News
Freelancers	3.8	2.6	2.6	3.6	5.9	5.0	4.0	3.9
Cultural journalists	0.9	1.9	3.5	3.9	13.5	7.1	16.1	6.7
Journalists from other departments	8.8	7.4	4.4	5.2	11.2	5.5	3.7	6.6
No signature	86.6	88.0	89.5	87.3	69.4	82.4	76.2	82.2
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Review
Freelancers	56.0	53.7	61.1	60.5	79.1	66.5	69.9	63.8
Cultural journalists	35.3	31.2	30.9	29.1	14.5	26.0	23.9	27.3
Journalists from other departments	8.2	15.2	7.6	10.5	6.4	7.4	5.4	8.7
No signature	0.5	0.0	0.4	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.8	0.2
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Stories in total
Freelancers	21.4	23.1	27.6	31.4	34.7	28.8	26.5	27.6
Cultural journalists	14.3	17.5	18.3	20.6	19.1	20.8	24.7	19.3
Journalists from other departments	9.0	10.4	6.0	8.7	9.4	7.3	5.2	8.0
No signature	55.3	49.0	48.1	39.3	36.8	43.1	43.6	45.0
Total	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Coverage of Genres 1978–2008 (N=texts)

	1978		1983		1988		1993		1998		2003		2008		Mean
	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	N	%	%
Review	184	26.7	230	30.4	262	32.1	258	34.8	235	28.3	266	27.7	259	26.1	29.4
News	320	46.4	309	40.8	345	42.3	305	41.1	340	40.9	421	43.8	403	40.7	42.3
Other commentary¹	49	7.1	62	8.2	70	8.6	65	8.8	76	9.1	80	8.3	95	9.6	8.5
Person feature	20	2.9	31	4.1	30	3.7	44	5.9	47	5.7	52	5.4	65	6.6	4.9
Feature	87	12.6	96	12.7	82	10.1	58	7.8	95	11.4	117	12.2	86	8.6	10.8
Other	30	4.3	29	3.8	26	3.2	12	1.6	38	4.6	25	2.6	83	8.4	4.1
Total	690	100	757	100	815	100	742	100	831	100	961	100	991	100	-

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2013-0106 | Journal eISSN: 2001-5119 | Journal ISSN: 1403-1108

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Language: English

Page range: 89 - 98

Published on: Mar 13, 2020

Published by: University of Gothenburg Nordicom

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

cultural journalism,

professionalism,

specialization,

Related subjects:

Social sciences,

Communication science,

Mass communication,

Public and political communication

© 2020 Maarit Jaakkola, published by University of Gothenburg Nordicom
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