When algorithms enter professional news production, ethical challenges arise on various levels, write Konstantin Nicholas Dörr and Katharina Hollnbuchner. Focus of their article is on algorithmic journalism and aims to provide a framework to identify and discuss those ethical issues  Journalist is not the major moral agent anymore as other actors, such as algorithms, are involved in news … Continued

Computer-written news tends to be rated higher than human-written news in terms of credibility but news consumers get more pleasure out of reading human-written news, write Andreas Graefe of Columbia University, LMU Munich, and Macromedia University, Mario Haim of LMU Munich, Bastian Haarmann of Fraunhofer Institute for Communication, Information Processing and Ergonomics and Hans-Bernd Brosius of LMU Munich. Writers studied on people’s perception of … Continued

Media organizations, media content, and audiences are increasingly connected through a variety of media networks, writes J. Sophia Fu. Online news articles have hyperlinks to link to other content and news organizations disseminate news via social media, just to mention few examples. The article aims to promote social network analysis in the study of journalism. According to … Continued