Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy
This research is aimed at examining how the culture of immediacy is implemented in a newspaper undergoing digital transformation. This paper is written based on the case of Harian Kompas, the most influential newspaper in Indonesia, that just officially launched its paywall-based digital site,...
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| description | This research is aimed at examining how the culture of immediacy is implemented in a newspaper
undergoing digital transformation. This paper is written based on the case of Harian Kompas, the most
influential newspaper in Indonesia, that just officially launched its paywall-based digital site,
kompas.id as an alternative platform. Within this context, the daily implemented the digital-first
strategy to put the priority of rapid digital news production prior to its slow-pace print edition.
Through ethnography fieldwork in the daily’s newsroom, relying on in-depth interviews and
participant observations, the study highlights a notion that the culture of immediacy is not easy to
implement. The challenge rests on the fact that it is not only contradictory to the common rhythm of
rigid newspaper work-flow and deadline among reporters and editors, but further it is considered
harmful to the daily’s prescribed core value of comprehensive journalism originated from its editorial
philosophy as well as journalism credo of being credible. It is within the constant negotiations among
all the newsroom’s actors, the culture of immediacy remains to be a contesting value that should be
carried out by the daily as a way to excrete the old habit of print deadline while the digital-first
transformation is still taking shape. |
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| spelling | oai:generic.eprints.org:169812021-07-05T02:51:46Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16981/ Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy Priyonggo, Ambang Hamedi Mohd Adnan, This research is aimed at examining how the culture of immediacy is implemented in a newspaper undergoing digital transformation. This paper is written based on the case of Harian Kompas, the most influential newspaper in Indonesia, that just officially launched its paywall-based digital site, kompas.id as an alternative platform. Within this context, the daily implemented the digital-first strategy to put the priority of rapid digital news production prior to its slow-pace print edition. Through ethnography fieldwork in the daily’s newsroom, relying on in-depth interviews and participant observations, the study highlights a notion that the culture of immediacy is not easy to implement. The challenge rests on the fact that it is not only contradictory to the common rhythm of rigid newspaper work-flow and deadline among reporters and editors, but further it is considered harmful to the daily’s prescribed core value of comprehensive journalism originated from its editorial philosophy as well as journalism credo of being credible. It is within the constant negotiations among all the newsroom’s actors, the culture of immediacy remains to be a contesting value that should be carried out by the daily as a way to excrete the old habit of print deadline while the digital-first transformation is still taking shape. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2021 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16981/1/48656-159649-1-PB.pdf Priyonggo, Ambang and Hamedi Mohd Adnan, (2021) Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 37 (2). pp. 258-271. ISSN 0128-1496 https://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1401 |
| spellingShingle | Priyonggo, Ambang Hamedi Mohd Adnan, Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| title | Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| title_full | Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| title_fullStr | Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| title_short | Digitising newspaper content in Indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| title_sort | digitising newspaper content in indonesia: the challenge of enforcing the culture of immediacy |
| url | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16981/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16981/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/16981/1/48656-159649-1-PB.pdf |