The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional ... - OSCE
The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional ... - OSCE
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Is there a works council at your newpaper? Fig. 1Yes 49No 510 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100<str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> importance <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> such collective representati<strong>on</strong> can be explainedby c<strong>on</strong>necting the results <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> Figure 1 with the answersshown in Figure 2. <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g> majority <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> participants in this surveyor 62.6 per cent, rate the influence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> their work council from“very influential” to at least “influential”. In other words, morethan half <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> the journalists who resp<strong>on</strong>ded to the questi<strong>on</strong>nairedo have the impressi<strong>on</strong> that they are c<strong>on</strong>sidered – nolensvolens – as a serious counterpart by their employers.Individual interviews c<strong>on</strong>ducted with journalists duringthis survey indicate that the total dissatisfacti<strong>on</strong> rate <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> 37.5 percent depends either <strong>on</strong> weaknesses within the nati<strong>on</strong>al labourlaws as such or, as in many cases, for example, in Italy, <strong>on</strong> thepers<strong>on</strong>al c<strong>on</strong>victi<strong>on</strong> <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> not having elected the right people intothe work council.Being c<strong>on</strong>sidered as a valuable partner by the owners/managementis an important ingredient to overall job satisfacti<strong>on</strong>for every employee. In daily newspaper companies this feelingis, however, <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> particular significance, as it indicates a generalunderstanding between owners and/or management and the12345How influential is this works council <strong>on</strong> a scale from 1 to 5,1 being ”very influential“ and 5 being ”not influential at all“?1,617,217,220,30 10 20 30 40 5043,8Fig. 272 THE IMPACT OF MEDIA CONCENTRATION ON PROFESSIONAL JOURNALISM