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

摘要: This article examines the changes in cultural journalism newspapers with regard to its dual field structure. The influence of media organizations’ policies on professionalist dualism is discussed based results a quantitative content analysis over period 1978-2008 and semi-structured theme interviews heads culture departments major Finnish dailies. indicate that have developed their own news production, increased managerial control strengthening journalistic paradigm, whereas opinionated journalism, including criticism, increasingly outsourced. thus aspire sustain balance between professional paradigms related field-hybridity, which creates distinct structural formalism this specialized type makes evolution time relatively stable.