TY - JOUR T1 - Fundamentalist web journalism: Walking a fine line between religious ultra-Orthodoxy and the new media ethos JF - European Journal of Communication Y1 - 2018 A1 - Golan, O A1 - Mishol-Shauli, N KW - fundamentalism KW - journalist motivations KW - new media and religion KW - online journalism KW - religion KW - religion and media KW - ultra-Orthodox KW - Ultra-Orthodox Jews KW - web journalism AB - New media journalism has perturbed traditional reporting not only in mainstream-modern societies but also within religious-cum-insular communities. Focusing on the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel and in light of web journalists’ continuous struggle with leading clergy and an apprehensive public, this study grapples with the question, ‘How do ultra-Orthodox web journalists view their work mission as information brokers for an enclave culture?’ The study gleaned from 40 in-depth interviews with web journalists and discussions with community web activists. Results uncovered three major schemata that drive their praxis: (1) Communal-Haredi, (2) Western-Democratic and (3) Journalist Ecosystem. Findings suggest a rising archetype of fundamentalist web journalism that rests its professional ethos on writers’ practice, rather than on formalized training or communal dictums. Web journalists were found to strongly identify with their community, yet, often unintentionally, also act as a secondary form of authority and harbingers of change. VL - 33 UR - http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0267323118763928 IS - 3 ER -