Following recent developments in digital technologies, financial crises and changes in audience preferences, this book addresses the critical challenges and disruptions facing the profession of journalism.

Birgit Røe Mathisen is Professor at the School of Journalism, Nord University, Bodø, Norway. Her research interests lie primarily within the profession of journalism, local journalism, media, and democracy. Before entering academic work, she worked as a journalist for 20 years.

1. Journalism: between destruction and resilience, 2. Journalism as a profession and institution, 3. A shifting professional landscape, 4. High job satisfaction but a precarious future: the doubled-edged nature of freelancing, 5. At the other end of precarity: profiled columnists as branded goods, 6. Both change and stability