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How local television newsrooms’ social media policies are evolving

The study “Social Media Policies in U.S. Television Newsrooms: Changes over Time” by Anthony C. Adornato and Allison Frisch from Ithaca College looked at the ways in which way newsroom social media policies evolve in four areas. The four areas were 1) journalists’ professional and personal social media activities, 2) social media sources and content, … Continued

Tags: audience, journalistic guidelines, journalistic norms, social media, social media policies, surveys, TV, United States
Published: 27 Jun 2022

How community radio performs community identity

The study “‘Just like us’: community radio broadcasters and the on-air performance of community identity” by Bridget Backhaus from Griffith University looked at an understudied sub-area in community media studies: community identity. The study is situated in Australia, a country with rich and diverse scholarship on the topic. The concept of community is foundational in … Continued

Tags: audience, Australia, Brisbane, broadcasters, community, critical discourse analysis, identity, Queensland, radio, social contact
Published: 10 May 2022

Professional logics in journalism and the role of social media audiences

The article “Business as Usual: How Journalism’s Professional Logics Continue to Shape News Organization Policies Around Social Media Audiences” by Kelly Fincham from National University of Galway, Ireland used an institutional logics approach to understand the relationship between the audience’s role and the professional logics dominating the newsrooms. Institutional logics refers to a set of … Continued

Tags: audience, Canada, guidelines, Ireland, journalism consumers, journalistic profession, social media, United Kingdom, United States
Published: 7 Dec 2021

Byline biases and gendered emotions

Under what conditions does a gender byline bias against female authors still exist? A new article “Are byline biases an issue of the past” by Leyla Dogruel from Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Sven Joeckel from University of Erfurt, and Claudia Wilhelm from University of Vienna was a combination of two consequtive studies investigating the effect of perceived author … Continued

Tags: audience, bylines, credibility, gender, Germany, journalistic profession
Published: 27 May 2021

A Lefebvrian analysis of news audiences’ media day

In a new study “The Media Day, Revisited: Rhythm, Place and Hyperlocal Information Environments” Henrik Örnebring and Erika Hellekant Rowe of Karlstad University combined Henri Lefebvre’s concepts of rhythmanalysis and the media day with Ray Oldenburg’s notion of the third place. This was done to understand how news audience members’ everyday experiences relate to hyperlocal … Continued

Tags: audience, daily news, hyperlocal, Local news, news rhythm, Sweden
Published: 26 Mar 2021

Reader attention and credibility through labels

Does the label of a news story affect its credibility? New study “What’s in a label? The effect of news labels on perceived credibility” by Cynthia Peacock of University of Alabama and University of Texas at Austin, and Gina M Masullo and Natalie Stroud of University of Texas at Austin sought to answer this question … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism, political journalism, science journalism
Published: 16 Feb 2021

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Best practices for journalists as inclusive media educators

How can journalists foster audience participation and journalism literacy? The new article “Journalists as Media Educators: Journalistic Media Education as Inclusive Boundary Work.” by Maarit Jaakkola of University of Gothenburg seeks to answer this question. Media education is defined as the ability to evaluate and act upon media messages. According to previous research, journalists avoid … Continued

Tags: audience, journalism education, media education
Published: 22 Dec 2020