Date of Award
5-11-2025
Date Published
June 2025
Degree Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Mass Communications
Advisor(s)
Lars Willnat
Keywords
Broadcasting;mixed-methods;News;NPR;PBS;Public Media
Abstract
This study, based on survey responses from 1,491 commercial and 394 public media journalists working in the United States, as well as in-depth interviews with 44 U.S. broadcasters, shows how boundaries created by each group’s interpretive community separate them from the other group because of their professional roles, norms, and routines. While U.S. public and commercial journalists do not necessarily see one another as competitors, this study examines whether they exhibit in- and out-group preferences and prejudices, which might lead them toward excluding each other’s work from in-group considerations.
Access
Open Access
Recommended Citation
Jastrzebski, Stan, "Why Money Matters: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Differences Between U.S. Public And Commercial Media Journalists And Their Work" (2025). Dissertations - ALL. 2084.
https://surface.syr.edu/etd/2084
Certificate for the author's completion of the survey of earned documents.
