Cultural studies and journalism overlap in important respects. They are both interested in the mediation of meanings through technology in complex societies. Both investigate ordinary everyday life: journalism from the point of view of reportable events; cultural studies from that of ordinary lived experience. They both display emancipationist tendencies: journalism as part of the modern tradition of liberal freedoms, cultural studies as part of a critical discourse developed around struggles over identity, power and representation. But the tradition of journalism research that has grown up within university programs has tended to focus less on the overall purpose of journalism in modern societies and more on its purpose as a professional occupation in an industrialised and corporate mode of production (Gans, 2004). Cultural approaches have played only a minor role in this tradition. Indeed there is a tendency for cultural and journalistic approaches to be seen as either adversarial or mutually exclusive, despite (or because of) the fact that they share a common interest in the communication of meaning within societies characterised by conflict (Green & Sykes, 2004).
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