糖心Vlog破解版

Article

Coping as a competency: A typology of journalists and news creators work on platforms

Details

Citation

Bélair-Gagnon V, Salamon E & Crawford M (2026) Coping as a competency: A typology of journalists and news creators work on platforms. Journalism. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849261441150

Abstract
This article explores how news content creators and journalists working with social media navigate their professional lives amid the volatile, entrepreneurial conditions of platformized labor. Drawing on 19 in-depth interviews, this study examines the established scholarship on coping and argues that the individual strategies these professionals use are neither institutional nor personal deficits, nor simple reactions to stress. We propose the IBES typology—Institutional, Boundary, Emotional, and Strategic—as a hybridized professional competency essential for managing algorithmic instability, digital hostility, and entrepreneurial precarity. This typology reframes the narrative of institutional abandonment. It contributes to the sociology of news production and coping literatures by documenting how these competencies and skill sets are hybrid, essential, and inseparable from “doing” professionalism. These skills are internalized and privatized as conditions and the visibility of today’s news creators’ work.

Journal
Journalism

StatusPublished
Publication date online30/04/2026
Date accepted by journal22/03/2026
PublisherSAGE Publications
ISSN1464-8849
eISSN1741-3001

People (1)

Dr Errol Salamon

Dr Errol Salamon

Senior Lecturer in Media Production, Communications, Media and Culture