ABSTRACT
This chapter shows how globalization has set new contexts in which journalists gather news. It details how access structures enable journalistic roles and how routines and the reiteration of journalistic practices reinforce social structures to remain powerful influences over news content, expressed through individual-level professional variables. Gatekeeping theory seems important to analyze how much these news-gathering strategies differ from the countries those journalists are from, taking into account the possible socialization effect of working in a transnational media environment that might be quite different than how those journalists were socialized into their profession. While truth justification structures might remain resilient to change, social geographical spaces such as transnational news environments nevertheless challenge the way people's think about gatekeeping. Qualitative interviews reveal how journalists truth justification strategies are expressions of journalists structural positions in the field, legitimizing such structures through their articulation in news.
