Dear all, 

Benjamin invited us to this seminar they are organising. The scope is to foster academic exchange and discussion. 

If this works well, he is open to co-organise such sessions in the future together with us. 

A warm invitation to attend if the topic incites some interest or if you wonder how such reflection sessions could look like. I should be able to be there myself. 

Cheers, 

Ike


From: Benjamin DE CLEEN <Benjamin.De.Cleen@vub.be>
Sent: 17 February 2023 17:47
To: Ike PICONE <Ike.Picone@vub.be>
Subject: FW: ECHO research seminar with Zoltán Dujisin on 'Power-Interactive Expertise as a form of Journalistic Expertise' - 17 March 2023
 

Hi Ike,

 

Hieronder de info en uitnodiging voor seminarie waarvan sprake.

 

Stuur jij dat door naar de relevante mensen bij jou?

 

Benjamin

 

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Dear colleagues,

 

On 17 March we are organising a research seminar with Zoltán Dujisin (FNRS - UCLouvain).


Zoltán will present his work on ‘Power-Interactive Expertise as a form of Journalistic Expertise: Negotiating Journalistic Autonomy during the Catalan Crisis at El País’. This will be followed by discussion, and drinks at Pilar for those who want to join.

 

All practical info is below.

 

Looking forward to seeing many of you there.

 

Best wishes,

 

Benjamin

 

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ECHO Research Seminar

Power-Interactive Expertise as a form of Journalistic Expertise: Negotiating Journalistic Autonomy during the Catalan Crisis at El País

Zoltán Dujisin – FNRS UCLouvain

 

Friday 17 March 2023

Pleinlaan 5, 4th floor, Raadzaal PL5.4.21

15.00-16.30

 

Abstract

 

Prestigious center-left daily El País surprisingly positioned itself as an uncompromising voice against Catalan independentism, imposing an editorial line aligned to the Spanish conservative government to a newsroom that experiences hysteresis as a result. Drawing from in-depth interviews with El País journalists, this article argues newsroom hysteresis, precipitated by the field of power’s growing encroachment on the journalistic field, helps reveal an undertheorized aspect of the journalistic profession: power-interactive expertise. The concept conveys journalists’ need to constantly negotiate limitations to their autonomy, all the while developing discursive strategies of autonomy preservation. Usually concealed and couched in technical terminology and newsroom routines, hysteresis foregrounds the ubiquity of power-interactive expertise.

 

Bio

 

Zoltán Dujisin is an FNRS (National Scientific Fund) Post-Doctoral Fellow based at UCLouvain. His research interests include sociology of knowledge, sociology of journalism, memory politics and political sociology. Zoltán obtained his PhD in sociology from Columbia University in New York, was a Marie Curie Leading Fellow based in Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds an MPhil in Political Science from Central European University. He also worked as a journalist for a decade, corresponding for the global news agency Inter Press Service News and leading Portuguese weekly Expresso from Ukraine, Hungary and the Czech Republic.