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BOOK: Modern world needs collaborative journalism, but it is not a panacea

The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has published a new open access book on collaboration in investigative journalism. The book is edited by Richard Sambrook, of Oxford University, and features chapters from five other writers. Collaborative journalism is not entirely new: newsrooms teamed up already in late 1800’s in order to pool resources … Continued

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ARTICLE: Economic expectations are shaped by experience and tabloids

How does the media affect people’s expectations of their future financial situation? Antonis Kalogeropoulos, of University of Oxford, investigated the question in the Danish context. The author surveyed 1 043 Danes in four waves, over the course of ten months. Each time the respondents were asked to assess how they saw the future in terms … Continued

Tags: audience, Denmark, economic journalism
Published: 8 Dec 2017

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ARTICLE: National papers do not set the public’s economic opinion

Does media coverage change the way the audience views economy, or does coverage follow the public opinion? Daniel J. Hopkins, Eunji Kim and Soojong Kim, all of University of Pennsylvania, investigated the question by a large-scale comparison of public sentiment and news tone. The authors conducted an automated analysis of over 150 000 news articles … Continued

Tags: audience, economic journalism, United States
Published: 6 Nov 2017

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ARTICLE: News coverage of inequality is “biased” and “one-sided”

Andrea Grisold and Hendrik Theine, both of Vienna University of Economics and Business, have reviewed the extant research on reporting economic inequality. Their meta-analysis suggests the number of stories is increasing, but their qualitative nature is not: economic inequality is largely covered in an episodic manner, and by placing blame on individual rather than societal … Continued

Tags: economic journalism
Published: 27 Oct 2017

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ARTICLE: Advertisers hold back investigative business journalism

The dependence on advertising revenue discourages newsrooms from pursuing critical investigations, Maha Rafi Atal, of University of Cambridge, writes. The author interviewed 22 American and British journalists working in six newsrooms. Atal also had the opportunity to investigate the newsrooms’ financial statements. Many of the newsrooms were heavily reliant on advertising revenue, which made the … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, journalism funding, journalistic profession
Published: 18 Sep 2017

Popular newspapers and regional newspapers resemble each other in terms of how often they employ different news values, Mark Boukes and Rens Vliegenthart, both of the University of Amsterdam, write. The authors conducted a content analysis on over 6 000 news articles about economy, published by nine Dutch newspapers. Each article was coded according to … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, newspapers, The Netherlands
Published: 7 Sep 2017

Economic news and learning – Arjen van Dalen interview

VIDEO: Economic news and learning

Arjen van Dalen, Associate Professor at the University of Southern Denmark told us about his four-year research project that focuses on economic news. The research group studied, using content analysis and a large survey following people’s understanding of news during one year, how people learn about and understand economic news. At the end of the … Continued

Tags: audience, economic journalism, video
Published: 18 Apr 2017

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ARTICLE: What makes a journalist an elite journalist?

Financial journalists evaluate their colleagues based on their skill and success, not their personality, the results from a survey suggests. Hai L. Tran and Matthew W. Ragas, both of DePaul University, asked 192 American financial journalists to name their three most respected peers. Over 90 per cent of all nominations went to six journalists, collectively … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, journalistic identity
Published: 6 Mar 2017

New International Journal of Communication out now

The International Journal of Communication has just published a new issue and a special section on digital citizenship and surveillance. The both include a bunch of intriguing articles for those interested in journalism. Take a look at these for example: Masahiro Yamamoto, Seungahn Nah and Deborah Chung: U.S. Newspaper Editors’ Ratings of Social Media as Influential News … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, framing, sources
Published: 15 Feb 2017