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Canadian journalists’ views of dark participation

The study “Journalists’ Views and Management of Dark Participation” by Ahmed Al-Rawi from Simon Fraser University and Taeyoung Kim from Loughborough University interviewed 15 Canadian journalists on their experiences with dark participation practices, particularly in relation to to hate speech, dis- and misinformation, and trolling. Dark participation refers to various forms of misconduct on user-generated … Continued

Tags: audience, audience engagement, Canada, dark participation, hate speech, journalists, misinformation, moderation, news organizations, online journalism, trolling
Published: 13 Mar 2023

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

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Fewer but gendered and more positive stories about women as heads of government

Few journalism research papers up to this day have focused on women as heads of government. The new paper by Melanee Thomas of University of Calgary, Allison Harell and Tania Gosselin of UQAM, Montreal, and Sanne A.M. Rijkhoff of Texas A&M University Corpus Christi (authors not in original order), studied how gender roles are represented … Continued

Tags: Canada, gender, newspapers, online journalism, political journalism, representation
Published: 5 Nov 2020

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Networks in newsrooms enable unethical behavior to persist

New study by Minette E. Drumwright of the University of Texas at Austin and Peggy H. Cunningham of Dalhousie University, uses behavioral ethics to study sexual harassment in newsrooms and unethical journalistic content produced by newsrooms. Interviews of 25 participants in Canada and United States was conducted. Journalists had varying levels of experience and positions … Continued

Tags: Canada, journalistic norms, United States
Published: 26 Oct 2020

ARTICLE: Online experiments can indicate audience preferences like field research does

Does an experimental setting affect news audiences’ behaviour? The question is a relevant concern to researchers who consider sending participants to a mock news website as part of their methodology: if the knowledge of taking part in a study affects the participants’ behaviour, the method is not externally valid. University of Texas at Austin researchers … Continued

Tags: audience, Canada, methodology, online journalism, United States
Published: 4 Feb 2020

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ARTICLE: Science journalism has gotten worse

News articles on biomedical studies have since the year 2000 used more hyperbolic headlines and more frequently omitted replication statements, a team of University of Bordeaux researchers found. Estelle Dumas-Mallet, Andy Smith, Thomas Boraud and François Gonon analysed over 400 news stories on biomedical research, published globally between 1988 and 2009. First the authors selected … Continued

Tags: Australia, Canada, science journalism, United Kingdom, United States
Published: 26 Jan 2018

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ARTICLE: A look at the intense working conditions of digital journalists

What is it like to work in a digital newsroom nowadays? Nicole S. Cohen of the University of Toronto Mississauga, interviewed 12 digital journalists in Canada and United States during 2015 about their daily work and working conditions. Job descriptions for digital journalists are varying, as was also evident in this study. For many, their … Continued

Tags: Canada, journalistic identity, journalistic profession, online journalism, United States
Published: 11 Jan 2018

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ARTICLE: News agenda influences generalist politicians more than specialists

Politicians who are involved with many issues are more likely to follow the agenda set by news media than specialized politicians are, write Alon Zoizner and Tamir Sheafer, both of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, with Stefaan Walgrave, of University of Antwerp. The authors analysed over 45 000 speeches given by Belgian, Canadian, and Israeli … Continued

Tags: audience, Belgium, Canada, Israel, political journalism
Published: 23 Aug 2017

REPORT: Local newspapers are still strong in Canada

Canadian community newspapers still play an important role in their readerships’ lives, states a recent report by News Media Canada. A representative sample of over 2 400 Canadians was surveyed for the study. The amount of time Canadians spend by reading community newspapers is not showing signs of decline. Simultaneously, a shift in platforms was … Continued

Tags: audience, Canada, local journalism, newspapers
Published: 12 May 2017