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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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Financial journalism emphasizes the social position of the experts

Economic journalism relies on words indicating a respectable, networked social position when describing their expert sources, a new study finds. Catherine Walsh from Cardiff University offers new perspective and support on the previous findings that journalists are insufficiently critical of their expert sources. The reason might not be due to a failure to challenge technical … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, sources, United Kingdom
Published: 9 Sep 2020

Journalists are bad at communicating scientific consensus

Most news articles do not clearly state expert consensus, even when one exists. The finding is reported by Eric Merkley, of University of Toronto. Merkley analysed over 280 000 news articles on 10 different topics – all ones on which most experts agree (e.g. vaccinating children). The author analysed over 3 000 articles by hand … Continued

Tags: representation, science journalism, sources, United States
Published: 24 Feb 2020

ARTICLE: When a company is in a crisis, journalists’ attention shifts away from the CEO

A company’s chief executive officer (CEO) is usually its most visible public representative. However, in a time of crisis, journalists’ attention moves towards the company’s board members, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz researchers Nora Denner, Thomas Koch and Stephanie Senger discovered. The authors set out to investigate how personalized crisis coverage is – in other words, … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, representation, sources
Published: 29 Jan 2020

ARTICLE: Which sources would journalists choose for immigration news?

Elite sources tend to dominate the coverage of immigration, but when journalists have the chance they include more immigrants’ voices. Akhteruz Zaman, of Massey University, and Jahnnabi Das, of University of Technology Sydney, came to the conclusion after analysing 525 news articles published by six newspapers in six countries. Zaman and Das made a distinction … Continued

Tags: economic journalism, newspapers, political journalism, sources
Published: 21 Jan 2020

ARTICLE: Business interests are more prominent in news than thought

Business interests have much greater presence in news than previously thought, University of Amsterdam researchers Ellis Aizenberg and Marcel Hanegraaff write. The authors analysed of over 350 000 British and Dutch newspaper articles, taking into account which “organized interests” were present in them. Earlier studies had shown business interests’ presence in the news was not … Continued

Tags: newspapers, political journalism, sources
Published: 30 Oct 2019

ARTICLE: #GamerGate failed to capture the news agenda, confirming its adherents’ worldview

Despite the so-called “gamergaters’” attempts, news media eventually leaned away from their preferred interpretation of the #GamerGate events, Bridget M. Blodgett, of University of Baltimore, writes. Blodgett analysed 500 news articles published on the controversy since 2014. The #GamerGate controversy began with an American game developer, Zoë Quinn, of being accused of bribing journalists for … Continued

Tags: representation, sources
Published: 25 Oct 2019

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ARTICLE: Online journalism rarely meets all audience expectations

When it comes to sourcing practices, online journalism often fails its audience’s expectations, a study from Finland suggests. Ville Manninen, of University of Jyväskylä, compared the expectations of young adult Finns to real-life sourcing practices in Finnish online journalism. An analysis of 36 news items from 3 newsrooms and 12 journalists revealed that, on average, … Continued

Tags: audience, Finland, online journalism, sources
Published: 12 Jun 2019

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ARTICLE: Data journalism producing abstract categories

The world around us is not naturally organized into categories for statistical analysis. For the purposes of data journalism, discrete, unique incidents, events, and people must be rendered as similar, so that abstract categories may be created and compared, a new study states. Wilson Lowrey and Jue Hou, of the University of Alabama, studied data … Continued

Tags: computer assisted reporting, data journalism, representation, sources, United Kingdom, United States
Published: 7 May 2018

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ARTICLE: Australian papers prioritize business over nature

The discourse surrounding the protection of the Great Barrier Reef has become increasingly business-oriented in Australian newspapers, Kerrie Foxwell-Norton, of Griffith University, and Claire Konkes, of University of Tasmania, write. The authors compared the topic’s coverage in four newspapers in 1981 and 2012. Foxwell-Norton and Konkes’ sample focused on two important events of mediatized environmental … Continued

Tags: Australia, environmental journalism, sources
Published: 20 Apr 2018