Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to international comparative research about journalists with a focus on the BRICS countries. It reports the early results of a study of BRICS journalists, from 2012 to 2016, which aims to scrutinize and understand the media systems of BRICS through the human dimension, taking a view from within, from the subjective world of the journalist-practitioners themselves. Each of the BRICS countries has its particular history of development of media and journalism, and of research about journalists. Attempts to classify media systems based on different criteria have long been part of the literature. The BRICS countries are among the top ten growing economies with the greatest share of investments in global advertising markets: China holds the second place, Brazil the third, Russia the fifth and India the ninth. Journalism is a popular profession in the BRICS countries, especially among the young, particularly in China and South Africa.
This chapter provides an introduction to international comparative research about journalists with a focus on the BRICS countries. It reports the early results of a study of BRICS journalists, from 2012 to 2016, which aims to scrutinize and understand the media systems of BRICS through the human dimension, taking a view from within, from the subjective world of the journalist-practitioners themselves. Each of the BRICS countries has its particular history of development of media and journalism, and of research about journalists. Attempts to classify media systems based on different criteria have long been part of the literature. The BRICS countries are among the top ten growing economies with the greatest share of investments in global advertising markets: China holds the second place, Brazil the third, Russia the fifth and India the ninth. Journalism is a popular profession in the BRICS countries, especially among the young, particularly in China and South Africa.