A Journey in Journalism, as a Career or a Shortcut - the Case Study of Financial Reporters

• Main Authors: Pei-Sih Chen, 陳培思
• Other Authors: 彭文正
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47745116846171742015

碩士 === 臺灣大學 === 新聞研究所 === 98 === Recently the decline of the newspaper industry in Taiwan has become more and more serious. The news about WantWant Group Taiwan purchased China Times Group, which is one of the oldest newspaper groups in Taiwan, also shocked the society. Facing the joblessness, salary reduction, or even company bankruptcy, in order to survive, more and more newspaper employees decide to look for other job opportunities. This depth report will focus on newspaper journalists’ career plan. Through interview with those journalists, who have left or changed their original position in journalism, this depth report will find out why they want to leave their position, how they think of this issue and also the possibility of future development. This depth report will also show the different thoughts between these economic journalists and those, who regard journalism as their aspiration. This depth report has found out that journalists feel more worried about their future, instead of the pressure from salary reduction. Part of the journalists who chose economic beat because they expect to transfer to other industries in the near future, or get certain professional training in other fields from their present position. They do not intend to stay as a journalist for too long. Furthermore, the pressure from survival has become the excuse for bad quality of news or not avoiding certain interests that are against the profession of journalism. This depth report will assist the understanding of how journalists represent the news value based on their own thoughts which is affected by the whole environment.