Article: The News Values of Fake News
The study “The news values of fake news” by Bashayer Baissa from University of Birmingham and Taif University, and Matteo Fuoli, and Jack Grieve from University of Birmingham analyzed fake … Continued
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Eyewitness images in the genre of open-source investigation
The study “Open-source investigation as a genre of conflict reporting” by Sandra Ristovska from University of Colorado Boulder was about the role and scope of eyewitness images in open-source investigation. … Continued
Flood photo galleries and their newsworthiness
The study “Their floods and Our floods: News values of flood photo galleries of Associated Press and Xinhua News Agency” by Hailing Yu and Guanfeng Chen from Hunan University investigated … Continued
Impact of headline writing approach
The study “Anticipating Attention: On the Predictability of News Headline Tests” by Nick Hagar and Nicholas Diakopoulos from Northwestern University, and Burton DeWilde from b Chartbeat Inc. measured the importance … Continued
Argument for joy as a news value
New study “Joy is a News Value” by Perry Parks from Michigan State University argues that journalism scholars should adjust their approaches to news by adopting joy as a news … Continued
ARTICLE: Clicks really affect what news get promoted
If an online news article produces good metrics, such as clicks, journalists will consider it more newsworthy. University of Antwerp researchers Kenza Lamot and Peter Van Aelst confirmed the effect … Continued
ARTICLE: Traditional news values predict online sharing
Traditional news values that define “newsworthiness” by and large also set the “shareworthiness” of news stories on social media, write Damian Trilling, of University of Amsterdam, Petro Tolochko, of University … Continued
PROJECT: New audience, new journalistic work
A new research project aims to redefine professional journalism and its value in mass media landscape. Kimmo Mäkilä, Janne Zareff and Jarno Liski have launched several smaller projects that all focus around the … Continued
ARTICLE: Studying newsworthiness with corpus analysis
Various methods of corpus analysis can be insightful in studying the ways newsworthiness of events is constructed, write Amanda Potts, of Lancaster University, Monika Bednarek, of University of Sydney, and … Continued