Journalism culture is described as a "shared occupational ideology among newsworkers".[1] The term journalism culture spans the cultural diversity of journalistic values, practices and media products or similar media artifacts.[2] Research into the concept of journalism culture sometimes suggests an all-encompassing consensus among journalists "toward a common understanding and cultural identity of journalism."[3]
There is scientific debate about the notion of a shared, worldwide journalism culture, whether such a common construct exists and can be found empirically.[4] Several communication science studies were conducted for finding a hypothetic common Western journalism culture, a common European journalism culture, or even a common global journalism ideology. (cf. historical overview) Research into journalism cultures is especially helpful in analyzing assumed influences of globalization, indicated by world-spanning major media corporations, on individual media cultures and its worldwide standard-setting potency.[5] In scientific literature, journalism culture is also called "journalistic culture", "news culture", "newspaper cultures" or "culture of news production".