This article describes and discusses how normative journalistic roles are formulated across Europe. The material was obtained from the 2012–2016 wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study, a comparative study designed to assess the state of journalism throughout the world. The advantage of this study over similar undertakings in the past is that we did not confront journalists with ready-made statements but invited them to tell us, in their own words, what they thought the major roles of journalists in their countries ought to be. Open responses of more than 10,200 journalists from twenty-seven European countries yielded 12,860 references. Results show that the most important roles refer to the domain of political life, especially the informational-instructive and the critical-monitorial functions—a finding that is consistent across the twenty-seven countries investigated. Beyond this shared global vision, it is, however, possible to point out some national specificities, keeping in mind that even if the core of the normative roles remains somewhat universal, a detailed comparison of those roles in their cultural context allows us to grasp some differences in their hierarchy and their meaning.

本文介绍并讨论了整个欧洲如何规范新闻工作者的角色。该材料是从2012-2016年新闻界研究浪潮中获得的，一项旨在评估全球新闻状况的比较研究。与过去的类似工作相比，这项研究的优势在于，我们没有以现成的陈述与记者面对面，而是邀请他们以自己的话告诉我们他们认为记者在本国应扮演的主要角色。来自27个欧洲国家的10,200多名记者的公开回应产生了12,860名参考。结果表明，最重要的角色是指政治生活的领域，尤其是信息指导性和批判性监视功能，这一发现在所调查的27个国家中是一致的。除了这种共同的全球愿景之外，还有可能指出一些国家特色，