ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how collaboration is displacing competition in formal projects that engage actors from different disciplines and formerly separate parts of the newsroom such as news, advertising and sales, as well as informal and formal exchanges between journalists working for competing news outlets. It focuses on one significant shift in the nature of journalism reporting and writing the collaboration required for data projects. The chapter argues that “field stability is generally achieved in one of two ways: through the imposition of hierarchical power by a single dominant group or the creation of some kind of political coalition based on the cooperation of a number of groups. At the core of the problem is whether or not the strategic action field will be built on coercion, competition, or cooperation” Collaboration however is emerging as a newer norm of journalism in prominent conversations about journalism in public discourse.
