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The study “The last remaining thing we have in common: journalists publicly perform their addiction to former President Trump” by Ron Bishop from Drexel University Philadelphia was a rhetorical analysis of news stories from 2016 to 2021 where journalists deployed the addiction metaphor to describe their relationship with the former president Donald Trump. With his … Continued

Tags: addiction, audience, journalistic identity, journalistic norms, political journalism, rhetoric, the United States
Published: 15 Jun 2023

Digital responsibility model for ethics in the algorithmic era

The study “Journalism Ethics for the Algorithmic Era” by Sejin Paik from University of Boston drew on Floridi’s (2014) framework to propose a framework for ethical standards for local newsrooms in the U.S. to account for the widespread use of algorithmic systems and platforms. Ethical guidelines in the U.S. originate from the print era and … Continued

Tags: algorithms, artificial intelligence, ethics, journalistic norms, journalistic values, Local news, newsrooms, online journalism, social media, the United States
Published: 8 Jun 2023

The roots of investigative journalism lie in the abolitionist press

The study ““Behold the Wicked Abominations That They Do”: The Nineteenth-Century Roots of the Evidentiary Approach in American Investigative Journalism” by Gerry Lanosga from Indiana University linked the roots of the evidentiary mindset in investigative journalism to abolitionism in the 1830s. In the popular imagination, Nixon’s Watergate scandal is intrinsically linked with the advent of … Continued

Tags: 1830s, abolitionism, abolitionists, evidentiary mindset, history, investigative journalism, investigative reporting, journalistic methods, muckrakers, slavery, the United States, Watergate
Published: 23 Dec 2022

Awesome science journalism?

The study “When Science Journalism is Awesome: Measuring Audiences’ Experiences of awe from Reading Science Stories” by Asheley R. Landrum and Kristina Janét from Texas Tech University, Kelsi Opat from Missouri State University and Heather Akin from University of Nebraska-Lincoln surveyed US audiences for facets of awe when exposed to science journalism. The authors used … Continued

Tags: awe, AWE-S, science curiosity, science journalism, surveys, the United States, vastness
Published: 11 Oct 2022