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often influence my relation with my sources (Respondent D, female,
newspaper journalist from Apple Daily).
3. Convergence and journalist’s resistance
For many journalists and editors working in a convergent newsroom or framework,
resistance seems to be inevitable. Even those who agree that convergence is an
irresistible trend for media and the news industry show certain actions of resistance to
the media organizations’ policy of converging. These resistance actions are not well
planned strategies but more like small tactics (De Certeau, 1984) – triggered by an
instant thought and are usually unplanned. For instance, one journalist from
ETtoday.com says that she does not want to show her boss her skills of using new
technologies too much just in case that the management gives her too much work
(Respondent H, female, journalist of ETtoday.com).
The journalists’ resistance to convergence usually comes from the pressures of
time and workloads. Seldom of them in my empirical investigation attributes
their negative attitudes to convergence for technological learning. The
journalists from the United Daily indicates that his daily work is still focusing
on cover and writing stories for the newspaper, producing convergent content
such as taking photos or making news clips which depends on time, news topic,
and how much material he has. The journalist points out that he has to spend
several hours to produce multiple content, which usually influence his normal
daily workload. Some stories are presented with multimedia formats that are
discarded without consideration of his work time (Respondent A, male,
journalist of The United Daily).
The journalist’s negative attitudes to convergence are reflected on their news reports.
Some journalists merely turn their video camera on and leave it in the press
conference spot, and then they go to cover other stories. For those who work under
the framework of a cross-media newsroom, cross-promotion policies are contrary to
some news workers’ professional codes. They tend to believe that the news should be
separated from commercial information. Some journalists and editors also develop
certain ‘tactics’ of avoiding the commercial cross-media promotions. For instance,
one editor from ETtoday.com indicates that if he finds out that some news reports are
related to the in-group business promotion, he usually updates the news with other
news reports as quickly as possible. As he says
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