To capture role conceptions and perceived role enactment within the journalistic landscape, Canadian journalists as well as journalists from the Global North and South who worked at news organizations included in the data collection were surveyed. Quota samples of journalists were employed in order to link responses with the mean content of their respective media outlets, with the ultimate goal of analyzing the gap between ideals and practice.
Across the project’s participating countries, researchers documented commonalities in challenges experienced by researchers recruiting journalists to participate in the survey. This spanned across various organizations and within all journalistic mediums and revenue models. Problems identified by these researchers, including the Canadian team, were aggregated and visualized to determine overlapping areas of concern, and then compared and contrasted with issues raised by journalists in the Canadian interviews. The prevalence of the concern is reflected in the size of the bubble representing documented issues:
