ABSTRACT
Journalism as a profession is important to democratic society not just because of what it produces but also how news is produced: under what conditions, for what purposes, within which institutional mindset and professional identity. Consequently, the field of journalism studies has many canonic texts investigating and documenting who journalists are, how they do what they do, and how news cultures and occupational ideology give meaning and provide structure to their work.1 Yet considering the significant transformations in the creation of content in the journalistic field that have emerged during the past couple of decades, which have been supercharged by rapidly changing disruptive technologies, it is crucial to reconsider sedimented ways of understanding and the work that journalists do under contemporary conditions.2
