Nedskärningarna fortsätter år efter år. Hur påverkas samhället när redaktioner läggs ner och reportrar sägs upp?

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I flera decennier har journalistikens resurser krympt. Färre reportrar på mindre redaktioner måste göra mer jobb på kortare tid. Hur påverkar det själva innehållet i våra tidningar, radiosändningar och TV-program?

Vad orsakade journalistikens kris och varför är det så svårt att ha en ekonomisk modell som fungerar? Hur påverkas samhället när journalister tar jobb inom PR-industrin? Vad hände med dom nya, digitala mediehusen? Och varför har det blivit så farligt att rapportera från krig och konflikter?

P3 Dystopia undersöker vad som håller på att hända med vår egen bransch.

Producent och programledare: Viktor Hariz
Programledare: Fanny Hedenmo

Medverkande

• Henrik Örnebring - professor i medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap vid Karlstads universitet

• Tim Dawson - tillförordnad generalsekreterare för International Federation of Journalists

• Jim Macnamara - professor i offentlig kommunikation vid University of Technology Sydney

• Glenda Cooper - chef för journalistinstitutionen vid City University London

Böcker

• The Power of News - Michael Schudson (1995)

• Flat Earth News - Nick Davies (2008)

Artiklar

• Riots, Terrorism etc - John Lanchester (LRB, 2008)

• You can’t put it down - Fintan O’Toole (LRB, 1996)

• Goodbye to Newspapers? - Russell Baker (NYROB, 2007)

• The News About the Internet - Michael Massing (NYROB, 2009)

• Can Journalism Be Saved? - Nicholas Lemann (NYROB, 2020)

• Digital Journalism: The Next Generation - Michael Massing (NYROB, 2015)

• Reimagining Journalism: The Story of the One Percent - Michael Massing (NYROB, 2015)

• The Club and the Mob - James Meek (LRB, 2018)

• Fall from Grace - Paul Starr (NYROB, 2019)

• Let Us Pay - John Lanchester (LRB, 2010)

• Remembering the ‘father figure’ of journalism in Gaza - Umar Farooq (Columbia Journalism Review, 2024)

• Bravo l’artiste - John Lanchester (LRB, 2004)

• The Leaky State of Political Journalism - Daniel Soar (LRB, 2009)

• Sisi and the Press - Ursula Lindsey (LRB, 2014)

• Digital Journalism: How Good Is It? - Michael Massing (NYROB, 2015)

• Bellingcat and How Open Source Reinvented Investigative Journalism - Muhammad Idrees Ahmad (NYROB, 2019)

• The British Broadcasting Conundrum - Matt Seaton (NYROB, 2023)

• Popular Journalism’s Day in ‘The Sun’ - Batya Ungar-Sargon (NYROB, 2020)

• Challenging post-communication: Beyond focus on a ‘few bad apples’ to multi-level public communication reform - Jim Macnamara (Communication Research and Practice, 2021)

• Blurred lines: German freelance journalists with secondary employment in public relations - Thomas Koch (Public Relations Review, 2014)

• A short history of ‘click-bait’ journalism - Rokeya Lita (Aljazeera, 2022) 

• The (Null) Effects of Clickbait Headlines on Polarization, Trust, and Learning - Munger et. al. (Public Opinion Quarterly, 2020)

• 6 in 10 of you will share this link without reading it, a new, depressing study says - Caitlin Dewey (Washington Post, 2016)

• Israel is eradicating journalism in Gaza, with ten reporters killed in three days, 48 since start of war (Reporters Without Borders, 2023)

• What is News?  - Harcup et. al. (Journalism Studies, 2017)

• Facebook Is Eating the World - It’s the end of the news as we know it - Emily Bell (Columbia Journalism Review, 2016)

• The key challenge in the fight against misinformation is an audience increasingly disconnected from quality news - Eduardo Suarez (The Forum Network, 2023)

• Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023

• A Bookseller and Many Journalists - Mahmoud Muna (LRB, 2023)

• A COMPROMISED FOURTH ESTATE? UK news journalism, public relations and news sources - Lewis et. al. (Journalism Studies, 2008)

• News selection criteria in the digital age: Professional norms versus online audience metrics - Welbers et. al. (Journalism, 2016)

• Vart fjärde journalistjobb har försvunnit - CARL VON SCHEELE (Arbetsvärlden, 2022)

• How does international humanitarian law protect journalists in armed-conflict situations? (ICRC, 2010)

• Since 2005, about 2,200 local newspapers across America have closed. Here are some of the stories in danger of being lost — as told by local journalists. (Washington Post, 2021)

• On the front lines of the local news crisis, a lot of pain but some reason for hope - Kim Kleman (Poynter, 2023)

• The State of Local News - PENELOPE MUSE ABERNATHY  (Northwestern University, 2023)

• News industry off to brutal 2024 start as mass layoffs devastate publishers, raising questions about the future of journalism - Oliver Darcy och Jon Passantino (CNN, 2024)

• WHAT ARE “NEWS DESERTS” IN EUROPE? (Journalismfund Europe, 2022)

• At least 8,000 journalism job cuts in UK and North America in 2023 - Clara Aberneithie och Charlotte Tobitt (Press Gazette, 2024)

• Record number of media job cuts so far in 2023 - Sara Fischer (Axios, 2023)

• Stop the Presses - Journalism Employment and the Economic Value of 850 Journalism and Communication Programs (Georgetown University)

• Två kommunikatörer på en journalist - Marit Israelsson (SVT, 2015)

• Var tredje lokalredaktion har försvunnit - Klas Granström (Journalisten, 2014)

• Channel 4 says it is to sell London HQ as it confirms job cuts - Mark Sweney (The Guardian, 2024)

• Los Angeles Times, Sports Illustrated among media outlets announcing layoffs to start 2024 - Eric Revell  (Fox Business, 2024)

• Aftonbladets väg till toppen: Från underdog till guldjycke - Staffan Wolters (Journalisten, 1998)

• “An Interested Reader”: Measuring Ownership Control at the New York Times - Daniel Chomsky (Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2006)

• How BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti Is Building A 100-Year Media Company - NOAH ROBISCHON (FastCompany, 2016)

• Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war (Committee to Protect Journalists, 2024)

• The journalists killed in Gaza — and what they tried to show the world - Ellen Francis,
  Artur Galocha and Joe Snell (Washington Post, 2024)

• Two Al Jazeera journalists wounded in Gaza missile strike - reporter (Reuters, 2023)

• Family of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief killed in airstrike - Sammy Westfall och Miriam Berger (Washington Post, 2023)

• Al Jazeera bureau chief's son Hamza al-Dahdouh among journalists killed in Gaza - Shaimaa Khalil (BBC News, 2024)

• The populist campaigns against European public service media: Hot air or existential threat? - Sehl et. al. (International Communication Gazette, 2020)

• Reputational attacks against journalists (Global Reporting Centre, 2023)

• Kampen om mediebilden - Bengt Johansson och Jesper Strömbäck (Institutet för Mediestudier, 2018)

• Undermining the legitimacy of the news media: How Swedish members of parliament use Twitter to criticise the news media -  Agnes Liminga och Jesper Strömbäck (Nordicom Review, 2023)

• Public service En svensk kunskapsöversikt - Johannes Bjerling (red) (Nordicom, 2022)

Klipp

• Gaza war is deadliest conflict for journalists in over 30 years, press advocates say (NPR, 2023)

• Smoke Signal, A Public Relations Podcast -  Jim Macnamara (2020)

• 'Stunned, angry, and infuriated': Journalists address US silence on colleagues killed in Gaza (MSNBC, 2024)

• Yellow Journalism | Citizen Hearst | American Experience  (PBS, 2022)

• Remembering Samer Abu Daqqa, Al Jazeera journalist killed in an Israeli attack - Ayesha Rascoe (NPR, 2023)

• Gaza journalist Wael Al Dahdouh to Pres. Biden: listen to both sides, not just one (MSNBC, 2024)

• Al Jazeera’s Wael Dahdouh pays tribute at his son’s burial (Al Jazeera 2024)

• Bill Gates Explains the Internet to Dave (Letterman, 1995)

• Jon Snow | James MacTaggart Lecture (EITF, 2017)

• Vice and Motherboard owner files for bankruptcy (BBC News, 2023)

• Son of Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh killed in Gaza (BBC News, 2024)

• The Words to Say It (This American Life, 2024)

Musik

• Star Hopper - The Oort Cloud

• Michael Andrews - Peter & Sylvie

• Martin D Fowler - Delaying the Inevitable

• Kid Loco - Theme From the Graffiti Artist

• Cliff Martinez - Will She Come Back

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Wojciech Golczewski - Setting Up

• Mac Quayle - 1.7_2 darlenesgun.aac

• Cliff Martinez - Fire it up Again

• Marcus Bagala - Wires: Tangerines

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Pianissimo

• Marcus Bagala - Frets: Problem after Problem

• Cliff Martinez - Dearest John

• Marcus Bagala - Boxes: Autumnal Moping

• Michael Andrews - Peter and Sylvie

• Marcus Bagala - Untitledthingthing

• Jon Brion - You Learn

• Vince Pope - Fake

• Cristobal Tapia De Veer - The Public

• Jon Brion - Cubes

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Odd

• Podington Bear - Dry Air

• WOW MOM WOW - Tryptoreal

• Cliff Martinez - Not Leaving This Circus

• Cliff Martines - There's Nothing Here

• Paul Leonard Morgan - Anderson's Theme

• Cliff Martinez - Speight Lived Here

• Marcus Bagala - Cascading Bells

• Podington Bear - Vibe Drive

• Vince Pope - A New Home

• Sophie Harris - Travelling Coffin

• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross - Clue One

• Lorn - Unraveled

• Clint Mansell - The Last Man

• Sophie Harris - Driving To Prison

• Ben Salisbury - Plainsong

• Wojciech Golczewski - Setting Up

• Sophie Harris - Exhumation

• Michael McCann - The Mole

• Cliff Martinez - The Birds Are Doing That

• Calexico - Untitled III - Remix by two lone Swordsmen

• Max Richter - De Profoundis

• Martin D Fowler - Delaying The Inevitable

• AJJ - Dissonance