ABSTRACT
Journalistic practice has changed fundamentally in today’s high-choice digital media environments. This is especially true for newspaper journalism, which is suffering from declining circulation and decreasing advertising revenue. The question of how journalism will prevail under such circumstances is closely intertwined with the question of how newspaper organizations handle these challenges. Although changes in news organizations are evident, the present chapter aims to clarify whether and how these organizational changes translate into journalistic practice. Findings suggest that both business principles and journalistic principles applied in news organizations influence role performance, confirming an often discussed paradoxical situation in journalism: While some organizational factors curtail journalistic independence by facilitating external influence, others strengthen journalistic independence by countering external influences.
