organizational culture, especially in situations where
technology increasingly enables various
stakeholders from organizations to directly interact.
2 LITERATURE REVIEW
The concept of organizational culture according to
Schein (2010: 23-24) refers to values and beliefs of
an organization consisting of three layers that show
the level of culture. From the most concrete
manifestations, the level begins with artifacts, then
espoused beliefs, and basic uderlying assumptions.
Artifacts are a visible part of the culture and feelable
structures and processes; espoused beliefs and
values refer to ideas, goals, values, aspirations,
ideologies, and rationalizations; while the basic
underlying assumptions are unconscious, taken for
granted beliefs and values. Practically, this
organizational culture is an effort to corporate
effectiveness, growth and success (Alvesson 2012:
1-2). Both Schein and Alvesson, see that
organizational culture provides direction and
orientation for organizational members to achieve
goals. Experts nowadays see the organizational
culture that is applied to companies as a corporate
culture that function like secret sauce which causes a
company to progress and is different from the others
(Guiso, Sapienza & Zingales 2015).
Talking about organizational culture or corporate
culture in the journalism, Hanitzsch (2007) came
with journalism culture as a more specific concept.
He mentioned about three essential constituents of
journalism culture which are institutional roles,
epistemologies, and ethical ideologies. Moreover, he
continues to detail those dimensions to
interventionism, power distance, market orientation,
objectivism, empiricism, relativism, and idealism.
With his approch he saw that the typical Indonesian
journalists are men, came from a higher degree of
education, and enjoy good earnings compare to other
professions (Hanitzsch 2005, 2006). Those are some
capitals for them to be professional and
independence journalists. Unfortunately, he argues
that they are not really perform well these days.
In the case of Tempo, we learned that
independence is a value that is upheld by the
company. Actually, Bannet argues independence is a
central rhetorical means for the legitimacy of various
types of media in different contexts (Karppinen and
Moe, 2016). In the case of Tempo that grew during
the authoritarian state, independence became an
important keyword that distinguishes it from other
media. Therefore, it is clear that media independence
a relational concept. According to Bannet, we must
always ask for what purpose it is used for. Each
media will always deal with many different types of
constraints and external influences. Which is the
most relevant or politically relevant, depending on
the context. Independence becomes a concept that is
basically contested and inherently experience
endless revisions and interpretations (Gallie, 1956,
in Karppinen and Moe, 2013, 2014, 2016).
While in the past, independence contested with
state control and intimidation, in the present
independence is experiencing different challenges.
In the new economy, which is an economy of groups
whose purpose is to satisfy a person’s need for
quality communication (Dolgin 2012: 6-7), the
internet is the main technology that facilitates
interactions among individuals and between
individuals and the public. It has now been
embedded in news gathering activities and has
changed the relationship between journalists and
information sources. Digital communication has the
advantage of speed and efficiency in the newsroom
but also has implications for the quality and
independence of a mass media (Steensen, 2008:
358). Journalists, now sharing information space
without intermediaries, especially in relation to
government and other official publications that are
likely to be published online, and can research and
collect news on the internet more widely.
In online media, there are dominant features that
we can observe, one of which is interactivity, a
concept used to describe various processes related to
communication and the practice of online
journalism. Jensen describes interactivity as a
measure of a media's potential ability to let users
influence mediated communication content or forms.
All types of interactivity can be found on online
news (Stenseen, 2011: 315). Features that encourage
interactivity include comment columns, sharing
features to social media and messaging applications,
as well as discussion forums. The concept of
interactivity also makes the online media audience
not just active readers, but also users or users in
digital applications.
More and more online news agencies seem
increasingly trying to be more interactive. Readers
and media consumers are facilitated to contribute to
the production of content by sending photos, videos,
and text. But some previous studies stated that
online news sites do not use all forms of available
interactive features, especially features that actually
function to facilitate human interactivity
(Baczkowski, 2004; Chung, 2007; Deuze, 2003;
Schultz, 1999). Deuze (2003) argues that