The Motives of Television Journalists Participating in the Journalist Competency Test

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210805.031How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Motive, journalist competency test, TV journalist

Abstract

Journalist certification is a program of the Press Council to improve the competence and professionalism of journalists. The program, which has been running for ten years, is not running smoothly. Of the 40 thousand journalists registered in the Press Council, only 17 thousand have participated in the journalist competency test. The Indonesian Television Journalists Association, a journalist organization under the Press Council, from 1863 its members were only able to test 745 journalists. The reason is that journalist certification does not linearly affect journalists’ welfare. The media where journalists work does not require passing journalist certification. This study aims to explore the motives of television journalists following the journalist competency test using the theoretical basis of Alfred Schutz’s motives. Television journalists were selected as samples who had participated in the journalist competency test held by the Indonesian Television Journalists Association. The selection of participants was carried out using a purposive sampling technique, namely television journalists who had participated in the competency test and were members of the Indonesian Television Journalists Association. This study used a qualitative approach with phenomenological methods. The results showed that the because-motives of participating in UKJ were self-proof and pride in being a journalist. Meanwhile, in-order-to-motives is to get public recognition and is different from “abal-abal” (low quality) journalists.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Moehammad Gafar Yoedtadi
AU  - Gregorius Genep Sukendro
AU  - Lusia Savitri
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/08
TI  - The Motives of Television Journalists Participating in the Journalist Competency Test
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Economics, Business, Social, and Humanities (ICEBSH 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 192
EP  - 200
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210805.031
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210805.031
ID  - Yoedtadi2021
ER  -