Abstract
ABSTRACT Through a series of in-depth interviews with 66 U.S. arts and culture journalists conducted in 2020, this study documents how these journalists perceive the influence of cancel culture practices and discourses in modern arts and culture journalism. Interviewees found positive power in calling out bad cultural actors and trends, protecting their audiences from harmful cultural content, contextualizing politics within popular culture and gatekeeping the actors and practices within this subfield of journalism. However, they expressed fear that cancel culture practices and discourses encourage journalists to create unnecessary boundaries regarding what they can and cannot cover and to dismiss perspectives with which they disagree. And they worry that these cancel culture practices and discourses may threaten some journalists’ careers and professional legacies.
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