This study seeks to explore the motivations and labor of lifestyle, or “soft news,” journalists.
Rooted in the lens of discursive institutionalism and through 30 interviews with lifestyle …

Having been neglected by journalism scholars in the past, recent years have seen renewed
interest in journalism's role in everyday life, in addition to the traditional focus on journalism's …

The news increasingly provides help, advice, guidance, and information about the
management of self and everyday life, in addition to its traditional role in political …

Throughout journalism studies scholarship, the market orientation of lifestyle journalism has
been associated with its diminished place within the journalistic field. Specifically, because …

Often trivialized within the broader journalistic field, lifestyle journalists would seem to have
the dream job: the opportunity to get paid to do what they love. The present study explores …

Scholarship has pointed to an artificial hierarchy between political and lifestyle journalism
that is rooted in norms and values stemming from Western-liberal thought. Within this …

A growing amount of scholarship on lifestyle journalism and role conceptions has shown its
relevance in the context of consumption cultures and societal changes. However, the …

This introduction to the special issue outlines the case for an increased focus on studying
lifestyle journalism, an area of journalism which, despite its rapid rise over recent decades …

This essay argues that lifestyle journalism, which is often considered trivial, should be
analyzed for its public potential. I delineate how lifestyle journalism's dimensions of review …

Lifestyle journalists work in a boundary area between journalistic and commercial interests.
They report journalistically on lifestyle topics such as travel, food, or fashion, while also …