[Commlist] CFP - Entrepreneurial journalism: emerging models and lived experiences. Looking back and looking forward.

https://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/bjr/announcement/view/29

*Brazilian Journalism Research - **Call for Papers - V. 18, n. 2, 2022*

*Entrepreneurial journalism: emerging models and lived experiences. 
Looking back and looking forward.*

*Editors: *Renaud Carbasse (Université Laval, Canada), Olivier Standaert 
(Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Clare Elizabeth Cook 
(University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom)

This special edition of /Brazilian Journalism Research/ interrogates and 
collates the links between entrepreneurialism and journalism, in 
emergent journalistic practices and socioeconomic models. The growing 
recognition of entrepreneurial values and practices in the journalism 
domain has occurred against a backdrop of interlinked changes in 
journalism and media in the economic, technological, social, ideological 
and regulatory terrains. These are most prominent not only in the 
emergence of new digital actors and new configurations of national and 
international media landscapes but also in the reframing of normative 
journalistic practices, organisational structures, modes of production, 
distribution and financial sustainability. In this vein then, 
entrepreneurial journalism delineates new relations between actors, 
publics and domains of activity (Hang and Van Weezel, 2005; Mitchelstein 
and Boczkowski, 2009; Lee-Wright et al., 2012; Mercier and 
Pignard-Cheynel, 2014; Carbasse, 2015; Grohmann et al., 2019).

Taking shape in a movement which moves beyond traditional journalism 
boundaries (Neff et al., 2005) these transformations have created 
favourable conditions for new editorial projects to grow outside of 
traditional legacy, corporate or mainstream media. They exist as 
heterogeneous independent structures where journalists are confronted 
with operational challenges and financial obstacles that question any 
hard divide between editorial and business operations, which are little 
understood. New journalistic techniques and products are developed and 
iterated through a process of experimentation outside of normative 
practices. Whether they openly embrace the ‘entrepreneurial journalism’ 
label (Briggs, 2011) as distinguished at least in part from the other 
non-salaried forms of employment such as freelance (De Cock and De 
Smaele, 2016) or whether they adhere to certain entrepreneurial 
competences and general qualities without wanting to be overtly 
labelled, these journalistic projects are united by a certain level in 
their journalistic practices of deindustrialization and 
decentralisation. They necessitate new definitions and understandings 
hinged on flexible structures and new manners of doing and financing 
journalism.

In deploying new values, logics and competencies, entrepreneurial 
journalism sparks important implications for the journalistic domain, 
socio-professional practices, meta-discourse and redefinitions of access 
to the profession. Increasingly blurred boundaries between journalism 
and other sectors of civil society and business domains brings into 
question the very foundations of professional cultures and paradigms 
(Lewis and Usher, 2013). In parallel, these changes bring about 
increasingly individualistic approaches to journalism careers, prompting 
different degrees of self-employment and development of ‘own brand’ 
journalism with bespoke definitions of professional success, both in the 
terrains of economic and personal development (Standaert, 2016).

Over the past 15 years there has been a growing interest in 
entrepreneurial journalism, the term most cited in the literature, as an 
object of study in its own right despite the fact a precise definition 
remains contested, not least against other forms of entrepreneurialism 
from other cultural and creative industries (Rafter, 2019). Efforts of 
definition “vague enough to result in a variety of constructed meanings” 
(Vos and Singer, 2018) delineate based on interactions between economic 
and editorial motivations, reception to innovative technologies or 
creative forms of journalism production, somewhat detached from the 
constraints of traditional media.

Scholarly attention in the literature to the challenges and 
opportunities emerging from the terrain have been thus far fragmented, 
and only partially address emergent models for these types of practice 
as well as their mode of operandi. There exist persistent gaps in 
surfacing workable models in the local, national and international 
landscape (Damian-Gaillard et al., 2009; Briggs, 2011; Meyer, 2011; 
Dvorkin, 2012; Berkey-Gerard, 2012; Brouwers, 2017; Salles, 2019), 
effective business models in Western markets (Bruno et Nielsen, 2012; 
Sirkkunen et Cook, 2012; Naldi and Picard, 2012; Charon, 2015; Robinson 
et al., 2015; Nicholls et al., 2016), the degree of compatibility and 
recognisable formats to tie down and redefine entrepreneurial identities 
and meta-journalistic discourse with the link to atypical ways of 
working (Benedetti et al., 2015; Carbasse, 2015; Carlson and Usher, 
2016; Fulton, 2016; Porlezza and Splendore, 2016; Siapera and 
Papadopoulou, 2016; Vos and Singer, 2016; Mathisen, 2018; Liang, 2020; 
Nel et al., 2020), the implications of precarious working and changed 
career trajectories (Cohen, 2015; Standaert, 2016; Anciaux et al., 2018; 
Leung and Cossu, 2019), or the importance of entrepreneurial journalism 
training in modern journalism curricula from student and trainer 
perspectives (Baines and Kennedy, 2010; Hunter and Nel, 2011; Ferrier, 
2013; Chimbel, 2016; Rafter, 2016; Broersma and Singer, 2020; Buschow 
and Laugemann, 2020; Caplan et al., 2020).

In order to address these gaps in existing research and to synthesise 
available findings and theorising, contributions to this special issue 
are welcomed in the following areas, but are not limited to:

- What structural affordance do digital and platforms play in the 
link(s) between journalism and entrepreneurialism?
- How have social, political and regulatory contexts affected the 
closeness between journalism and entrepreneurialism, for better or worse?
- What are the new market approaches to journalism in these contexts and 
has it led to the emergence of sustainable models to produce, distribute 
or pay for journalism?
- In what ways does entrepreneurialism contribute to innovation in 
journalistic formats or the reconfiguration of journalism roles?
- How do entrepreneurial competencies play out in daily routines, 
professional practices or career management for journalists?
- How has the concept of a journalist entrepreneur evolved, been 
redefined or integrated in the past decade?
- How have journalists, audiences, public stakeholders or 
socioprofessional groups shaped and defined our understanding of 
entrepreneurial journalism?
- How is entrepreneurialism shaped, welcomed or integrated in the 
meta-discourse of local, national or international journalists groups?
- What tensions exist for journalist entrepreneurs and how are they 
shaped or negotiated?
- How is entrepreneurial journalism included in journalism curricula and 
what changes are needed?
- Exploration of methodological challenges and opportunities to 
researching entrepreneurial journalism
- What challenges and impacts on the operations and sustainability of 
entrepreneurial journalism did arise within the global sanitary and 
economic context? What adaptations are needed by actors in this space?

Both single-country and comparative research are welcome, as well as 
both theoretical and empirical manuscripts. Quantitative, qualitative or 
mixed methods approaches can be used also action research or critical 
theory. Conceptual and theoretical advancements in understanding 
entrepreneurial journalism are welcomed. The intention is to draw 
together a theoretically and methodologically rich set of 
interdisciplinary perspectives to deepen knowledge around these questions.

Articles must be 40,000 to 55,000 characters (including references and 
spaces) submitted by November 30 2021.

The BJR accepts manuscripts in Portuguese, Spanish, French and English. 
Authors submitting in Portuguese, Spanish or French must provide an 
English translation a month after receiving acceptance for publication.

No payment from the authors will be required.

The manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s electronic platform 
at : _http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br <http://bjr.sbpjor.org.br/>_

Contact for more information : _bjreditor@gmail. 
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(_renaud.carbasse /at/ com.ulaval.ca) <mailto:(renaud.carbasse /at/ com.ulaval.ca)>_

Instructions for authors: 
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Date of manuscript submission *November 30 2021*

Notification of acceptance: *April 30 2022*

Date of publication: *August 30 2022*

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