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Changes in News-Production Labor Process Since The Introduction of Convergent Newsroom : A Case Study on The CBS Convergent Newsroom (통합 뉴스룸 도입 이후 뉴스생산 노동과정의 변화: CBS 통합뉴스룸 사례연구)

  • Yoon, Ik-Han;Kim, Kyun
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.55
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    • pp.164-183
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    • 2011
  • Technology innovation of digital convergence in recent years of the media sector has produced a series of significant changes in journalist labor. This study analyzes how recent introduction of convergent newsroom changed the nature of journalist labor and what strategy the management used to control journalists within the technologically innovated working condition with case of CBS. As the labor process theory tells us, the analysis found that technological innovation in the newsroom has encouraged a couple of aspects regarding labor process. First, losing control over their own labor journalists have undergone the process of significant deskilling. Second, the management have made a constant effort to introduce ideological and political apparatuses with twofold purposes, effective control over workers on one hand and concealing oppressive labor conditions on the other. The effort generated journalists' acceptance of new news-making routine and their consent on labor-management culture founded upon naive familism, which at last resulted in reinforcement of corporate power and isolation of labor society by separating internal labor market.

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