ABSTRAK
Penelitian ini ingin melihat bagaimana salah satu media independen di Indonesia,yaitu Tempo, melakukan perubahan konvergensi pada ruang berita mereka.Penelitian kualitatif dengan pendekatan etnografi ini mengeksplorasi bagaimanabudaya ruang berita Tempo berperan dalam perubahan tersebut. Penelitimengumpulkan data melalui wawancara mendalam pada delapan informan danobservasi selama 4 minggu. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa nilai-nilai budayayang melandasi Newsroom Culture di Tempo tertanam pada asas jurnalismeTempo. Nilai-nilai budaya tersebutlah yang membentuk Constructive NewsroomCulture di Tempo dan membuat Tempo bertahan dari perubahan ke perubahan

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ABSTRACT
This research seeks to find out how one of Indonesia?s independent media,Tempo, performs changes in order to establish a convergence newsroom. Usingan ethnographic method, this study explores how Tempo?s newsroom culture istaking part during the changes through a four week observation and eight in-depthinterviews with the newsroom personnels. This research has found that Tempo?snewsroom culture has its values rooted on its journalism principles which waswritten on the magazine?s first edition in 1971. These values?namely,egalitarianism and pluralism?have been the epitome of Tempo?s everydaypractices for more than 40 years. These values also shaped Tempo?s culture into aConstructive one, which is?and has always been?the key to Tempo?s survivalin facing many changes.