54
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Implications for Hybrid Newswork from the Work-from-Home Activities of Local US Television Journalists During COVID

ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon, ORCID Icon &
Received 27 Jun 2023, Accepted 27 Feb 2024, Published online: 22 Apr 2024

References

  • Allen, T. D., T. D. Golden, and K. M. Shockley. 2015. “How Effective is Telecommuting? Assessing the Status of our Scientific Findings.” Psychological Science in the Public Interest 16 (2): 40–68. https://doi.org/10.1177/1529100615593273.
  • Araújo, R., F. Lopes, O. Magalhães, C. Duff Burnay, A. T. Peixinho, and C. Almeida. 2024. “The COVID-19 Pandemic in Portuguese Journalism.” In Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement, 103–123. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-41237-0_6.
  • Arcalas, J. E. Y., J. P. L. Tuazon, and J. M. Opiniano. 2024. “How Journalists Cope with News Work’s Stresses While Remaining Creative Amid the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Phenomenological Study.” Journalism Practice 18 (1): 76–98. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2151039.
  • Backholm, K., and T. Idås. 2022. “Journalists and the Coronavirus. How Changes in Work Environment Affected Psychological Health During the Pandemic.” Journalism Practice 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2098522.
  • Baruch, Y. 2000. “Teleworking: Benefits and Pitfalls as Perceived by Professionals and Managers.” New Technology, Work and Employment 15 (1): 34–49. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-005X.00063.
  • Belanger, F., R. W. Collins, and P. H. Cheney. 2001. “Technology Requirements and Work Group Communication for Telecommuters.” Information Systems Research 12 (2): 155–176. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.12.2.155.9695.
  • Bick, Alexander, Adam Blandin, and Karel Mertens. 2023. “Work from Home before and after the COVID-19 Outbreak.” American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 15 (4): 1–39. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20210061.
  • Birkinshaw, J., M. Gudka, and V. D’Amato. 2021. “The Blinkered Boss: How Has Managerial Behavior Changed with the Shift to Virtual Working?” California Management Review 63 (4): 5–26. https://doi.org/10.1177/00081256211025823.
  • Bloom, N., J. Liang, J. Roberts, and Z. J. Ying. 2015. “Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment*.” The Quarterly Journal of Economics 130 (1): 165–218. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qju032.
  • Casero-Ripollés, A. 2021. “The Impact of COVID-19 on Journalism: A Set of Transformations in Five Domains.” Comunicação e Sociedade 40:53–69. https://doi.org/10.17231/comsoc.40(2021).3283.
  • Couch, D. L., B. O’Sullivan, and C. Malatzky. 2021. “What COVID-19 Could Mean for the Future of “Work from Home”: The Provocations of Three Women in the Academy.” Gender, Work & Organization 28 (S1): 266–275. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12548.
  • Cushion, S. 2007. ““On the Beat” or in the Classroom.” Journalism Practice 1 (3): 421–434. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512780701505234.
  • Delanoeije, J., M. Verbruggen, and L. Germeys. 2019. “Boundary Role Transitions: A day-to-day Approach to Explain the Effects of Home-Based Telework on Work-to-Home Conflict and Home-to-Work Conflict.” Human Relations 72 (12): 1843–1868. https://doi.org/10.1177/0018726718823071.
  • Deuze, M., and T. Witschge. 2018. “Beyond Journalism: Theorizing the Transformation of Journalism.” Journalism 19 (2): 165–181. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884916688550.
  • Duxbury, L. E., C. A. Higgins, and S. Mills. 1992. “After-Hours Telecommuting and Work-Family Conflict: A Comparative Analysis.” Information Systems Research 3 (2): 173–190. https://doi.org/10.1287/isre.3.2.173.
  • Dworznik, G. 2018. “Personal and Organizational Predictors of Compassion Fatigue Symptoms in Local Television Journalists.” Journalism Practice 12 (5): 640–656. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2017.1338532.
  • Escudero-Castillo, I., F. J. Mato-Díaz, and A. Rodriguez-Alvarez. 2021. “Furloughs, Teleworking and Other Work Situations During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Mental Well-Being.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (6): 2898. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18062898.
  • Fairweather, N. 1999. “Surveillance in Employment: The Case of Teleworking.” Journal of Business Ethics 22:39–49. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006104017646.
  • Finneman, T., W. Mari, and R. J. Thomas. 2023. ““I Didn't Know How We Were Going to Survive”: U.S. Community Newspapers’ Resilience During COVID-19.” Journalism Practice 17 (5): 893–910. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1957703.
  • Finneman, T., and R. J. Thomas. 2022. ““Our Company is in Survival Mode”: Metajournalistic Discourse on COVID-19’s Impact on U.S. Community Newspapers.” Journalism Practice 16 (10): 1965–1983. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1888149.
  • Gajendran, R. S., and D. A. Harrison. 2007. “The Good, the Bad, and the Unknown About Telecommuting: Meta-Analysis of Psychological Mediators and Individual Consequences.” Journal of Applied Psychology 92 (6): 1524–1541. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.92.6.1524.
  • Gao, G., and L. Sai. 2020. “Towards a ‘Virtual’ World: Social Isolation and Struggles During the COVID-19 Pandemic as Single Women Living Alone.” Gender, Work & Organization 27 (5): 754–762. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12468.
  • García-Avilés, J. A., F. Arias-Robles, A. de Lara-González, M. Carvajal, J. M. Valero-Pastor, and D. Mondéjar. 2024. “How COVID-19 is Revamping Journalism: Newsroom Practices and Innovations in a Crisis Context.” Journalism Practice 18 (1): 181–199. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2139744.
  • Golden, T. D. 2012. “Altering the Effects of Work and Family Conflict on Exhaustion: Telework During Traditional and Nontraditional Work Hours.” Journal of Business and Psychology 27 (3): 255–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10869-011-9247-0.
  • Golden, T. D., J. F. Veiga, and R. N. Dino. 2008. “The Impact of Professional Isolation on Teleworker Job Performance and Turnover Intentions: Does Time Spent Teleworking, Interacting Face-to-Face, or Having Access to Communication-Enhancing Technology Matter?” Journal of Applied Psychology 93 (6): 1412. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0012722.
  • Guo, S. Z., and D. Wang. 2022. “Digital Journalism in China.” In Digital Journalism in China, 99–112. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247579-9.
  • Hackman, J. R. 1987. “The Design of Work Teams.” In The Handbook of Organizational Behavior, edited by J. W. Lorsch, 315–342. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall.
  • Hardt, H. 1996. “The End of Journalism Media and Newswork in the United States.” Javnost - The Public 3 (3): 21–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/13183222.1996.11008630.
  • Henderson, K. 2021. “The Seriousness of Storytelling: What Constraints to Professional News Routines Reveal About the State of Journalistic Autonomy in Local Television Newsrooms.” Journalism 22 (9): 2259–2278. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884919854651.
  • Hendrickx, J., and I. Picone. 2024. “Operationalising Hybrid Newsroom Ethnography: Observing Amidst a Pandemic.” Journalism Practice 18 (4): 840–857. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2062429.
  • Hoak, G. 2021. “Covering COVID: Journalists’ Stress and Perceived Organizational Support While Reporting on the Pandemic.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 98 (3): 854–874. https://doi.org/10.1177/10776990211015105.
  • Imre, I., and D. Wenger. 2020. “Where Newsroom Leaders See Technology Facilitating Innovation in Local TV News.” Electronic News 14 (4): 151–167. https://doi.org/10.1177/1931243120963705.
  • Iscan, O. F., and A. Naktiyok. 2005. “Attitudes Towards Telecommuting: The Turkish Case.” Journal of Information Technology 20 (1): 52–63. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jit.2000023.
  • Kirchner, K., C. Ipsen, and J. P. Hansen. 2021. “COVID-19 Leadership Challenges in Knowledge Work.” Knowledge Management Research & Practice 19 (4): 493–500. https://doi.org/10.1080/14778238.2021.1877579.
  • Kurland, N. B., and C. D. Cooper. 2002. “Manager Control and Employee Isolation in Telecommuting Environments.” The Journal of High Technology Management Research 13 (1): 107–126. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1047-8310(01)00051-7.
  • Kuruzovich, J., W. Paczkowski, T. D. Golden, S. Goodarzi, and V. Venkatesh. 2021. “Telecommuting and Job Outcomes: A Moderated Mediation Model of System Use, Software Quality, and Social Exchange.” Information & Management 58 (3): 103431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2021.103431.
  • Libert, M., F. Le Cam, and D. Domingo. 2022. “Belgian Journalists in Lockdown: Survey on Employment and Working Conditions and Representations of Their Role.” Journalism Studies 23 (5–6): 588–610. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2021.1944280.
  • Lukan, T., and J. ČehovinZajc. 2023. ““If you Don’t Agree to be Available 24/7, Then you have Nothing to do in Journalism”: The Boundary Work Tactics of Precarious Journalists.” Community, Work & Family 26 (4): 411–427. https://doi.org/10.1080/13668803.2022.2050356.
  • Malone, T. W., and K. Crowston. 1994. “The interdisciplinary study of coordination.” Computing Surveys 26 (1): 87–119. https://doi.org/10.1145/174666.174668.
  • Mann, S., and L. Holdsworth. 2003. “The Psychological Impact of Teleworking: Stress, Emotions and Health.” New Technology, Work and Employment 18 (3): 196–211. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-005X.00121.
  • Marín-Sanchiz, C.-R., M. Carvajal, and J.-L. González-Esteban. 2023. “Survival Strategies in Freelance Journalism: An Empowering Toolkit to Improve Professionals’ Working Conditions.” Journalism Practice 17 (3): 450–473. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2021.1929414.
  • Mathisen, B. R. 2019. “Ethical Boundaries among Freelance Journalists.” Journalism Practice 13 (6): 639–656. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2018.1548301.
  • Molyneux, L. 2018. “Mobile News Consumption.” Digital Journalism 6 (5): 634–650. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2017.1334567.
  • Okopnyi, P., F. Guribye, V. Caruso, and O. Juhlin. 2023. “Automation and Redistribution of Work: The Impact of Social Distancing on Live TV Production.” Human-Computer Interaction 38 (1): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1984917.
  • Oksanen, A., R. Oksa, N. Savela, E. Mantere, I. Savolainen, and M. Kaakinen. 2021. “COVID-19 Crisis and Digital Stressors at Work: A Longitudinal Study on the Finnish Working Population.” Computers in Human Behavior 122:106853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.106853.
  • Papper, B., and K. Henderson. 2023. “2022—A Challenging Year in Local TV News.” Electronic News 17 (3): 139–145. https://doi.org/10.1177/19312431231181925.
  • Reich, Z. 2013. “The Impact of Technology on News Reporting.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 90 (3): 417–434. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077699013493789.
  • Santos, P., and A. Mare. 2021. “The Reconfiguration of News Work in Southern Africa During the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Digital Journalism 9 (9): 1391–1410. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2021.1974914.
  • Sawyer, S., K. Crowston, and R. T. Wigand. 2014. “Digital Assemblages: Evidence and Theorising from the Computerisation of the US Residential Real Estate Industry.” New Technology, Work and Employment 29 (1): 40–56. https://doi.org/10.1111/ntwe.12020.
  • Slattery, K. L., M. Doremus, and L. Marcus. 2001. “Shifts in Public Affairs Reporting on the Network Evening News: A Move Toward the Sensational.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 45 (2): 290–302. https://doi.org/10.1207/s15506878jobem4502_6.
  • Subires-Mancera, M. P. 2023. “Technology at the Service of Journalism and the Media in Pandemic: The Case of Television in Spain During the Period of Confinement.” In Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, Vol. 318. Springer Nature Singapore. https://doi.org/10.007/978-981-19-6347-6_42.
  • Tandoc, E. C., L. Cheng, and M. Chew. 2022. “Covering COVID: Changes in Work Routines and Journalists’ Well-Being in Singapore.” Journalism Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2022.2112904.
  • Teodorovicz, T., R. Sadun, A. L. Kun, and O. Shaer. 2022. “How Does Working from Home During COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies.” Human-Computer Interaction 37 (6): 532–557. https://doi.org/10.1080/07370024.2021.1987908.
  • Thompson, J. D. 1967. Organizations in Action: Social Science Bases of Administrative Theory. New York: McGraw-Hill.
  • Trifonova Price, L., and V. Antonova. 2024. “Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology.” Journalism Practice. 119–136. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2118154.
  • Velloso, C. 2022. “Making Soufflé with Metal: Effects of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Sports Journalism Practices.” Journalism 23 (12): 2591–2607. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221131725.
  • Waizenegger, L., B. McKenna, W. Cai, and T. Bendz. 2020. “An Affordance Perspective of Team Collaboration and Enforced Working from Home During COVID-19.” European Journal of Information Systems 29 (4): 429–442. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2020.1800417.
  • Willcocks, L. 2021. “Robo-Apocalypse? Response and Outlook on the Post-COVID-19 Future of Work.” Journal of Information Technology 36 (2): 188–194. https://doi.org/10.1177/0268396220978660.
  • Yap, C. S., and H. Tng. 1990. “Factors Associated with Attitudes Towards Telecommuting.” Information & Management 19 (4): 227–235. https://doi.org/10.1016/0378-7206(90)90032-D.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.