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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

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Framing conflict events in Pakistan

In a weak democracy like Pakistan, coverage of military, conflict events is highly reliant on military sources that are less accountable to the general public than they are in strong democracies, a new study shows. Hussain Shabir, of Bahria University Islamabad, studied the press response to four different events in Pakistan. The events studied were … Continued

Tags: crisis reporting, framing, freedom of speech, journalistic norms, Pakistan
Published: 11 Dec 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

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Chavismo and self-censorship

In their new study, Paromita Pain and Ezequiel Korin, of the University of Nevada, studied how self-censorship has become the internalized norm for journalists starting from 1998 under the rule of Hugo Chavez, and his ideology Chavismo. The literature review shows how self-censorship exists as a continuum, ranging from explicit restrictions in authoritarian regimes to … Continued

Tags: censorship, freedom of speech, journalistic identity, journalistic norms, journalistic profession, Venezuela
Published: 21 Oct 2020

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Objectivity, detachment, and Walter Lippmann

The iconic Walter Lippmann was a forceful advocate for journalistic objectivity. He had a strong belief in “detachment” as an ideal for a journalist. Julien Gorbach of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, writes about the journalist in his new study. The article explores balancing between two journalistic ideals: standing up for something, and being … Continued

Tags: journalistic norms, media history, United States
Published: 8 Oct 2020

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Reasons for optimism, and a good reading list for education

Kati Tusinski Berg of Marquette University and Ryan Thomas of the University of Missouri offer a list and summary of recommended readings intended to bring hope and optimism to the journalistic profession and to teaching journalism. Inspired by correspondence between the authors experience on how to not paint a bleak picture of the profession, and … Continued

Tags: journalism education, journalistic norms
Published: 5 Oct 2020

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Diversity examined in 18 British, Swedish, and German newsrooms

A new study in Journalism Practice by Julia Lück, Tanjev Schultz, Sabine Kieslich, of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, and Felix Simon and Alexandra Borchardt of the University of Oxford, explores the issue of internal diversity in newsrooms as a reflection of the society. The authors conducted semi-standardized interviews of editors-in-chief and managing editors … Continued

Tags: Germany, journalistic norms, journalistic profession, representation, Sweden, United Kingdom
Published: 30 Sep 2020

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Data architecture primes journalists and audiences for the news

The creation of news exists in the daily rhythm of the reporting environment: there has to be a story worth reporting, there has to be an economic incentive to publish it, and the journalists have to be in the place. The study by Mike Ananny and Megan Finn introduces the concept of anticipatory news architecture. … Continued

Tags: journalistic norms, journalistic profession, sources
Published: 17 Sep 2020

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ARTICLE: How to report on the dark net?

Writing stories on the dark net, the hidden part of the internet outside the reach of public search engines, is an unusual practice. For example, using a nick, i.e. a digital pseudonym, raises ethical questions. Is this a form of undercover journalism, and how can journalists protect themselves while reporting? a new study asks. Liv … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, journalistic norms, online journalism
Published: 25 Mar 2020

ARTICLE: The Lampedusa disaster had no lasting effect on immigration coverage

“Was Lampedusa a key event for immigration news?” An international team of researchers posed this question to a sample of 2 059 news articles on immigration. The sample covers three countries, 17 newspapers, and 16 months around the 2013 shipwreck which claimed the lives of 359 Italy-bound immigrants. A key event is a news event … Continued

Tags: crisis journalism, journalistic norms, newspapers
Published: 12 Feb 2020