Is freelancing a choice or an obligation? Aspects of freelance sports reporting in the Czech Republic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Freelance sports journalists in the Czech Republic very often don't work for just one media outlet. The aim of this paper was to find out what the reasons for this are, how satisfied they are with their work, and how this work is regulated. In the Western world there is a trend of atypical work, and more people are working as freelancers, in the Czech Republic it is about a quarter of journalists. Ten freelance sports journalists in semi-structured interviews approached their way of working, with most working more than the legally mandated 40 hours per week. The method of data processing used was then thematic analysis. These journalists are more vulnerable to any changes in their personal lives or in the market because they do not have the social protection of layoff notice or sick leave. Often they do not make a living working for one media outlet, or they are aware of the precariousness of their position and compensate for it with a second job. Other work also often offers them career and personal growth. They are united by a desire for better financial recognition, unclear future prospects and professional enthusiasm. They also describe how the competitive market works and what the rules of work are for two media.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.013 | 0.025 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".