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In live courtroom broadcasting, journalistic roles are collectively produced across newsroom positions and continuously negotiated in real-time to balance normative responsibilities with media-driven demands. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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Examine how television news professionals understand, enact, and negotiate their journalistic roles during live courtroom broadcasts.

September 3, 2026Communication Research and Practice

Behind the scenes of live courtroom broadcasting: journalistic role enactment in Indonesian television

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Examine how television news professionals understand, enact, and negotiate their journalistic roles during live courtroom broadcasts.
Conducted a qualitative single-organization case study focusing on Metro TV in Indonesia.
Collected data via semi-structured interviews with five television professionals: a field reporter, executive producer, news anchor, assignment desk coordinator, and senior editor.
Identified three core dimensions of role enactment: normative commitments (public accountability, transparency, legal education), real-time cross-functional coordination, and negotiation of media pressures.
Showed that newsroom workers collectively balance civic responsibilities against commercial and institutional demands, such as ratings, advertising schedules, production speed, and court restrictions.

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Qualitative case study reveals dynamic role negotiation among television news professionals during live courtroom coverage, highlighting tensions between civic duty and commercial demands.

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Widodo et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9935d8636c6408cfa7e607 https://doi.org/10.1080/22041451.2026.2723816

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Qualitative case study reveals dynamic role negotiation among television news professionals during live courtroom coverage, highlighting tensions between civic duty and commercial demands.

Behind the scenes of live courtroom broadcasting: journalistic role enactment in Indonesian television

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Behind the scenes of live courtroom broadcasting: journalistic role enactment in Indonesian television

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