Reviews of cultural products are central elements in creating, legitimizing and disseminating
cultural tastes and hierarchies. In this empirical study, we examine the changes that have …

Reviewers, as specialist writers legitimized as arbiters of taste by the artistic fields, form a
distinct subculture within cultural journalism. The change in their status in the journalistic …

The crisis of cultural journalism has recently been a topical issue in many countries. In
Finland, too, it has been claimed that arts pages, previously dominated by aesthetically …

The media is a key institution in producing, legitimizing and disseminating cultural
classifications. From this perspective, newspapers and their sections devoted to culture are …

In the second half of the twentieth century, the volume, content and appearance of arts
journalism in Western daily newspapers have changed significantly in accordance with …

Integrating perspectives from research into cultural and post-industrial journalism, this article
presents a pilot study of websites with reviews of arts and culture conducted by amateurs …

Many studies suggest that during recent decades, legitimate culture in Western countries
has become less hierarchical and more open. Relatively little is known, however, about …

Recent scholarship has argued that the concept of highbrow culture is undergoing radical
changes, both in content and modes of appropriation. We introduce a new layer to this …

The aim of this study is to map and scrutinize developments within Swedish cultural
journalism, with a particular focus on transformations in genres, text types and thematic …

This study examines the changes in cultural journalism in newspapers in Finland between
1978 and 2008. The object of study is professionalism, its structures and the structural …