Journalists’ Perceptions of Ownership Change and its Impact on Journalistic Content and Work
ARTICLE: Truthmeter helps journalists evaluate credibility of Twitter contributors
How can algorithms help journalists judge the credibility of sources? Richard Fletcher, of the University of Oxford, Steve Schifferes, of City University London, and Neil Thurman, of Ludwig Maximilians University … Continued
ARTICLE: Fake news do not set the news agenda – but neither do fact-checkers
How much influence do the so-called fake news have on the overall news agenda? The question was researched by Chris J. Vargo, of University of Colorado, and Lei Guo and … Continued
ARTICLE: Competencies of a good interviewer
Serena Carpenter, Anthony Cepak & Zhao Peng, all of Michigan State University, investigated the rarely studied topic of interviewing. Researchers interviewed nine experienced journalists and eleven journalism educators in the … Continued
ARTICLE: Different types of government support could help foster diversity in South African media
There should be more constructive debate about media diversity in South Africa, Julia Plessing of the University of Johannesburg, argues. She studied different types of print media regulation and support … Continued
ARTICLE: Self-selected media seems less biased than media in general
If the audience is increasingly able to select the news sources they follow, how come so many still perceive the media as biased? An American team of researchers investigated the … Continued
ARTICLE: How do Chinese journalists navigate censorship?
The professional freedom of Chinese journalists is constrained by the state apparatus, but not entirely quenched by it. What tactics do the journalists use in order to gain access to, … Continued
ARTICLE: American journalists conflicted by mass shooting coverage
American journalists are largely satisfied by the way mass shootings are covered, while they still see room for improvement. The journalists’ attitudes were studied by Nicole Smith Dahmen and Jesse … Continued
