'Everything is dimming out, little by little:' examining self-censorship among Venezuelan journalists. Issue 1 (2nd January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pain, Paromita; Korin, Ezequiel
• Is Part Of: Communication research and practice. Volume 7:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 71
• Page End: 88
• Publication Date: 2021-01-02
• Subjects: Collective professional autonomy -- journalists -- Venezuela -- news media -- professionalism -- reflexivity -- censorship -- violence; Communication -- Periodicals; Communication and traffic -- Periodicals; Mass media -- Periodicals; 302.205
• DOI: 10.1080/22041451.2020.1824435
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2204-1451

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Using the conceptual frameworks of professional reflexivity and collective professional autonomy, our in-depth interviews with 25 journalists from Venezuela show that years of anti-press violence have ensured an atmosphere where journalists self-censor as the norm and where, through different forms, self-censorship has become a part of news routines. Journalists, especially those with over ten years of experience, clearly distinguished between self-censorship and other forms of suppression, but self-censorship has become so prevalent and infused in daily news routines, and so deeply internalised and reinforced that younger journalists and recent entrants into the profession consider self-censorship an integral part of their professional identity.