Circumstance and Identity Transformation of Journalistic Activity Subject: A Case Study of Professional Whistle-blower

PENG Huaxin

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1) : 89-100.

Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication ›› 2015, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (1) : 89-100.

Circumstance and Identity Transformation of Journalistic Activity Subject: A Case Study of Professional Whistle-blower

  • Peng Huaxin is a lecturer at the College of Mass Communication, Shenzhen University. E-mail: peng-hua-xin@qq.com.
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Abstract

  At the end of the 20th century, as one of the important news sources, whistle-blower was embedded into the process of news production and became the de facto “journalistic activity subject”. However, whistle-blowers were scattered at that time. Based on the field observations conducted in some large and medium-sized cities, whistle-blowers have been more professional. They co-existed with institutionalized news media in a more organized, specialized and intensive manner. Under such a circumstance, whistle-blowers have been transforming from the news source to the communicator as well as the receiver controlled by the dominant subject.

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professional whistle-blower / journalistic activity subject / identity transformation

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PENG Huaxin. Circumstance and Identity Transformation of Journalistic Activity Subject: A Case Study of Professional Whistle-blower[J]. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication. 2015, 37(1): 89-100

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This paper is subsidized by the project “The Development of Civic News Led by the Socialist Core Values” sponsored by the National Social Sciences Fund (Project Number: 13AXW014).

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