Étudier des pratiques professionnelles de manière empirique : de l’intérêt de croiser productions et discours, le cas des journalistes d’informations régionales télévisées

• Main Author: Élizabeth Bougeois
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Presses Universitaires du Mirail 2014-12-01
• Series: Sciences de la Société
• Subjects: TV regional journalism; situated practices; those who do can tell; empiricism; axiology; justifying actions
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/sds/988

Studying professional practices, from an empirical point of view, taking into account the way journalists work and what they produce is very fruitful. When journalists are asked to reconsider their work, their speech gives subtle information about the way they decide how to choose one action more than another. In the present article, we shall set out the way by which we have observed the work of a group of journalists, studied the production of five of them, and asked them about their work. The results of this study have enabled us to write up “professional portraits”, within which three stable elements appear: their personal experience as newsreel viewer, the reference to a public, unknown but imagined, and the personal values, as a guide to professional actions, in a professional environment poorly determined from an institutional point of view.