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ARTICLE: Audience recognized Gawker as journalism

The audience imposed journalistic criteria upon the website Gawker, thus recognizing it as a journalistic actor, write Edson C. Tandoc Jr., of Nanyang Technological University, and Joy Jenkins, of University of Missouri. They analysed reader comments and news stories in response to Gawker publishing a particularly controversial story. The reactions to the Gawker piece, which … Continued

Tags: audience, journalistic identity
Published: 26 Aug 2016

ARTICLE: News affect old workers’ employability

The way news depict older workers changes the way potential employers assess them, a study by Anne C. Kroon, Martine van Selm, Claartje ter Hoeven, and Rens Vliegenthart, from the University of Amsterdam, finds. The authors exposed 249 subjects to different versions of a news article on the employment of older workers. The respondents were … Continued

Tags: audience, representation
Published: 26 Aug 2016

REPORT: Newsroom practices in different news organizations

The research and development strategies newsrooms currently use vary, write Alexis Alizor and Talia Stroud. The newly published report focuses on challenges facing the journalism industry and it is based on 525 surveys conducted of editors and news directors working in different newsrooms. The report lists several interesting findings. For example television and website-focused newsrooms are more likely to … Continued

Tags: audience, journalism funding
Published: 23 Aug 2016

ARTICLE: On-air enunciation is not always necessary

The audience is able to understand spoken news even if the reader does not use clear and proper pronunciation throughout, write Jonas Nygaard Blom and David Nicolas Hopmann, both of the University of Southern Denmark, and Michael Ejstrup, of the Danish School of Media and Journalism (names not in original order). The authors had 9 … Continued

Tags: audience, radio journalism, television
Published: 18 Aug 2016

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ARTICLE: Quality of understanding in election campaigning in Austria

Austrian political parties largely follow the notion of an ideal speech situation more than Austrian newspapers. The new article by Roland Burkart of the University of Vienna and Uta Russmann of FHWien University of Applied Sciences seeks to understand deliberation in the public sphere. The researchers study to what extent parties and the media follow … Continued

Tags: audience, political journalism
Published: 17 Aug 2016

ARTICLE: News consumption among young adults

Young adult audiences have increasingly gravitated toward online sources of news and information, write Dunja Antunovic, of Bradley University, Patrick Parsons, of Pennsylvania State University and Tanner R. Cooke, of Pennsylvania State University. The article looks at the processes of news consumption among college students. By using five focus group interviews with 34 students the researchers explore … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism
Published: 10 Aug 2016

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PROJECT: How are news tailored to individuals?

Damian Trilling is an Assistant Professor for political communication and journalism at the Department of Communication Science at the University of Amsterdam. Trilling is taking part in a ongoing research project “Personalised Communication”. What should I read? Nowadays communication is more and more tailored to individuals by social networking sites and different recommendations systems. These … Continued

Tags: audience, online journalism
Published: 14 Jul 2016

ARTICLE: Story selection influences at the BBC

New study by W. Joe Watson, of Baker University, explores the influences on story selection at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). To conduct interviews the writer spent one week in at BBC World Headquarters in London. Through interviews with BBC employees across all levels, observation of the daily newsroom operation, and attending editorial meetings study identifies three … Continued

Tags: audience, journalistic profession, United Kingdom
Published: 13 Jul 2016

ARTICLE: News brand choice not based on demographics, more on journalistic factors

What kind of online news consumption patterns do ‘legacy’ and ‘native’ news brands have and how do they differ? Ángel Arrese and Jürg Kaufmann of the University of Navarra studied five legacy and five native brands in Spain. The study used a survey to find out whether online audiences of these groups of news brands … Continued

Tags: audience
Published: 5 Jul 2016

ARTICLE: Social media sources discredit political news

The audience perceive news stories that quote social media sources less credible than stories that are based on, for example, stake-outs, write Sanne Kruikemeier and Sophie Lecheler, both of the University of Amsterdam. The authors conducted an online survey on 422 respondents, who were asked to evaluate the credibility of certain journalistic work processes. Social … Continued

Tags: audience, political journalism, sources
Published: 1 Jul 2016