ABSTRACT
Institutional journalists are under pressure and the field of journalism is in flux. If twentieth-century journalism was characterized by ‘a trained professional delivering objectively validated content to a reader (or viewer, or listener)’, where there was room ‘for a journalism of analysis and opinion delivered by an authoritative public voice’ (McNair, 2009a: 347), and we agree that journalism is changing, we can wonder where journalism in the twenty-first century is heading. Even if we challenge the depiction of twentieth-century journalism as a sTable and fixed profession, which it was not (see Witschge, 2011a), we can acknowledge that major changes have featured in the field of journalism.
