Article
French
ID: <
10.4000/questionsdecommunication.10805>
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DOI: <
10.4000/questionsdecommunication.10805>
Abstract
This study aims to describe the growing influence that a flexible rationale is having on the early stages of the careers of young French-speaking Belgian journalists. Faced with an employment crisis of hitherto unseen proportions and significant changes in their business models, news media companies are finding it increasingly difficult to guarantee newcomers to the labour market a stable, predictable future. Adopting an interactionist approach to the professional groups, the study of the integration of new journalists provides us with an understanding of how destandardisation in the early stages of their careers creates new identity forms that, to a certain extent, depart from the pre-career ideals and traditional values that set journalism apart as a recognised career in its own right with a certain status in society. The analysis of the specific links between employment and work highlights an increasing individualisation of the professional situation, which is particularly significant for a journalism job market. This market is historically marked by very little cohesion between the different stakeholders, an erosion of identity and the value placed on what are intrinsically individual skills.