ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes the book. The chapter starts by describing the background for the new model of the influencing factors of journalism, including some of its shortcomings, and then discusses the ways in which this and other new models that have been presented in this book can assist researchers, lecturers and practitioners – both those in newsrooms and those in classrooms. Ultimately, this new model of the influencing factors of journalism is not only a reminder to researchers, educators and the daily practitioners of journalism of the forces that can restrict and enable journalists but also an inspiration for us to think more concretely about what journalism is, and who journalists are, here in the 21st century, where new technologies have made it easier for other professions and organizations to produce, publish and distribute something that resembles journalism. These are questions related to identity and authority, and they have been a concern since the very first generations of journalists; these questions have become even more important as new technological, economic and ideological developments have come to affect current practitioners.
