The "Making Out" Game In Taiwan Television Journalism:a Research In Taiwan Television Journalists’ Professional Anxiety And Identity

This paper makes discussion and research on the background of the existing circumstances of Taiwan’s TV Media. By using qualitative research methods-- the Participant Observation and Depth Interview, this paper focuses its concentration on the Taiwan’s TV News Making, particularly on how TV journalists make compromise and fight for it and why they do as it goes to. As a consequence, it could eventually indicate the fact that it was the evolution of Taiwan’s media system that results in this kind of News Making-out fundamentally. In the context of getting the journalists, the news chiefs, the news editors, the TV peers and the interviewees involved in the News Making-out, which mainly lead by the journalists, Taiwan TV news industry seemed to start to shift its own way at present, which from a noble, journalistic professional and intellectual news industry to low-level information production. Notably, unlike the producers of News Making-out who "take the initiative" to join this kind of "game", Journalists today are "forced" to get involved in to it and produce this so called "news production" which is far from the journalistic professionalism under the circumstances of scaled and commoditized news producing. Nowadays, the journalists are still on their "spiritual" fight while the "professional anxiety" existed as well. Moreover, in the sphere of "professional identity", the journalists in the wave of News Making-out prefer to be a "news-reporter" instead of a "news-worker". From this point, this paper is going to cast a critical eyes and discover more specifically on the pessimistic situation of Taiwan’s TV journalists.Specifically,this study is divided into six parts. The first chapter is the introduction about the background,purpose and significance of the research.In addition,it shows the method and thinking of the study.It also does some literature review and concept definition.In chapter Two,the beginning of the "News Making-out" is talked about.mainly analyzing the reason of how the "News Making-out" started in Taiwan.The next chapter is talking about the TV Journalist,discussing that why the journalist take part in the "News Making-out" under the condition of the sharp competition.The forth chapter describes the "News product" and the professional anxiety.It contains three parts:news interview,news screen,and news script,showing the characteristic of the Taiwan TV "News product".Also,it discuss about the professional anxiety behind the surface phenomenon of "News product" deviating from the journalistic professionalism.In chapter Five,the TV journalist’s professional identity is discussed,focusing on how the "News Making-out" pressure influenced their journalist’s professional identity,and how they compromise,fight and watch.The last chapter is the end,introducing the research conclusion.talking about the innovation and the shortage.What is more,it also provides some suggestions for the further research.