Hepp, AndreasLoosen, Wiebke2020-03-252020-03-2520182367-2277https://media.suub.uni-bremen.de/handle/elib/3418In this paper, we want to discuss the role pioneer journalists and the pioneer communities that they are part of may play in journalism s trajectory going forward. Journalism serves as an ideal case study for such an undertaking. This is because the transformation of jour- nalism is entangled with the development of media technologies and is increasingly main- tained beyond the newsroom by actors outside established media organisations, who are situated more at the periphery of the journalistic field not yet being part of the main- stream. For a couple of examples, one can look at the Hacks/Hackers movement who are engaged in data- and technology-driven journalism (Lewis and Usher, 2014), or the Con- structive Journalism Project (www.constructivejournalism.org), which are both develop- ing new forms of media coverage that integrates solution-focused elements (Haagerup, 2014). The starting point of our paper is that such forms of pioneering are a more general phenomenon in journalism. What pioneers or pioneer communities imagine is not a collec- tion of straightforward models that can be readily applied to current mainstream jour- nalism, but something that is likely to have a remarkable impact on discourse surrounding its future - something that signals developments and practices of pioneers and innovators at the periphery that push towards the centre.21dejournalismdigital journalismdeep mediatizationpioneer communitiesjournalism innovationstartupsnews organizations070Artikel/Aufsatzurn:nbn:de:gbv:46-00106473-13