Journalists and news organizations worldwide are confronted with multiple risks and uncertainties threatening journalism’s future. This project aims to map the levels of risk and uncertainty journalists are facing in Finland, and to understand how journalism copes with and adapts to these challenges. We focus on journalists’ perceptions of risks and uncertainties and assess them in the following domains that are critical to the practice of journalism: editorial autonomy, influences on journalism, journalistic roles, journalistic epistemologies, professional ethics, safety of journalists, and precarity of work. The analysis is done as part of the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism (WJS) project that employs survey methodology to assess the state of journalism simultaneously in over 110 countries throughout the world. This framework allows us to contextualize the situation in Finland by comparing it with other participating countries and across time (the second wave of the WJS in Finland was conducted in 2013-14 with funding by the HS Foundation). To this end, we propose to carry out a representative quantitative survey of around 400 journalists in Finland, plus complementary qualitative group interviews with 30–40 journalists.
