Participant, Observer, Intern, Producer: How 70 Years of Newsroom Ethnographies Approached “Participation” and the Epistemology of Participant–Observer Orientations
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Published online on April 29, 2026
Abstract
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After 70 years, little scholarship has systematically examined the spectrum of researcher conceptualizations and enactments of “participation” newsroom ethnographies. While the fields of Anthropology and Sociology have spent the last several decades ...
After 70 years, little scholarship has systematically examined the spectrum of researcher conceptualizations and enactments of “participation” newsroom ethnographies. While the fields of Anthropology and Sociology have spent the last several decades ...