Ida Willig

• Roskilde University

Digitalization has led to a crisis in news media and an upheaval in media ownership. A research concern has been that the motives driving media owners will shift from financial and public service to overtly political and ideological. The term “media capture” has been suggested to describe how various interests may take control over news media outle...

Newspapers are so much more than news content. However, the history of journalism is typically told through studies of news genres or news epochs. In this article, we test the theory of three epochs of Danish press history in an explorative study of non-news genres, as exemplified by letters to the editor, editorials, and “celebratory items” on bir...

Nyhedsmedier, sociale medier og magt I Danmark spiller de traditionelle nyhedsmedier stadig en central rolle, når borgerne skal finde oplysninger om politik og samfund (Schrøder, Blach-Ør-sten og Eberholst, 2022), ligesom nyhedsmedierne spiller en aktiv rolle i dagsordenens fastsaettelse (Albaek & Green-Pedersen, 2020; Blach-Ørsten og Willig, 2016)...

Climate change is at the top of the public agenda, but researchers argue that climate journalism needs to be improved. However, knowledge of the public’s perceptions of and expectations for climate journalism is limited. We asked a representative sample of the Danish public (N = 2,028) about their views on climate journalism. The results showed tha...

As a material object, the Cavling prize is a small bronze statuette of an old man with a moustache, a hat and both hands tucked away in the pockets of a long coat. In symbolic terms, the Cavling prize is one of the most prestigious awards of Danish journalism and a professional metonym for excellent journalism. This article presents a study of the...

Pierre Bourdieu’s book On Television (1998a), which was published in French in 1996, was an essayistic and critical analysis of the French journalistic field, of the power of journalism and journalists and of the professional ideology guiding the journalistic field, such as a constant drive for ‘scoops’. Before that, Bourdieu had not been addressin...

The reflexive sociology of Pierre Bourdieu offers a promising analytical framework for extending the insights offered by the classical tradition of ethnographic newsroom studies. On a methodological level, Bourdieu’s analytical framework has the potential to help us address one of the key questions in ethnographic research: how should we theorise a...

This study examines how media system differences in the form of news change or stay the same as newspapers in the United States (liberal), Denmark (democratic corporatist), and France (polarized pluralist) move from print to online. Internet technological affordances are posited to move online news toward more advertising and information (liberal m...

No more than twenty years ago, the doors between the newsrooms and the marketing departments of Danish newspapers were tightly shut. Today, all major Danish newspapers work with reader profiles using marketing data to create journalistic concepts. This article identifies two dominant reader constructions in policy papers of Danish newspapers: the r...