Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2263797
Logan Molyneux, Jacob L. Nelson
ABSTRACTThis study explores the tension between journalists’ personal social media accounts and newsroom social media policies to understand how newsroom managers exacerbate journalism’s labor crisis by de-professionalizing the field through restrictive policies. To analyze this tension, we conduct a critical discourse analysis of (1) managerial discourses collected from newsroom social media policies and scholarly literature and (2) journalistic discourses collected from in-depth interviews with 37 U.S. journalists. We find that newsroom social media policies require journalists to make four sacrifices in service of their organization’s reputation: individuality, opinion, voice, and privacy. This leaves journalists feeling frustrated by their lack of agency when it comes to engaging with the public and pursuing social media success. We conclude that this conflict contributes to journalism’s human resources crisis by limiting journalistic professionalism and autonomy, both of which are crucial for job satisfaction and journalism’s democratic mission.KEYWORDS: Social mediajournalismprofessionalismautonomyobjectivitylabor AcknowledgmentsThe authors wish to thank their co-authors on related work (Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, Diana Bossio, Avery E. Holton, and Kaitlin C. Miller) and the reviewers and editors of this special for their contributions to this manuscript.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
摘要本研究探讨记者个人社交媒体账户与新闻编辑室社交媒体政策之间的紧张关系，以了解新闻编辑室管理者如何通过限制性政策使新闻领域去专业化，从而加剧新闻行业的劳工危机。为了分析这种紧张关系，我们对(1)从新闻编辑室社交媒体政策和学术文献中收集的管理话语和(2)从对37名美国记者的深度采访中收集的新闻话语进行了批判性话语分析。我们发现，新闻编辑室的社交媒体政策要求记者为维护组织的声誉做出四项牺牲:个性、观点、声音和隐私。这让记者们感到沮丧，因为他们在与公众接触和追求社交媒体成功方面缺乏能动性。我们的结论是，这种冲突通过限制新闻的专业性和自主性而导致新闻的人力资源危机，而这两者对于工作满意度和新闻的民主使命至关重要。作者希望感谢他们在相关工作中的合著者(valsamrie bsamlair - gagnon, Diana Bossio, Avery E. Holton和Kaitlin C. Miller)以及本特刊的审稿人和编辑对本文的贡献。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260499
Temple Uwalaka, Fred Amadi
Journalists are increasingly reporting that online harassment has become a normative part of their lives, and that online harassment experience induces fatigue, anxiety, and self-censorship on them. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with journalists in Nigeria, this study reports that journalists experienced acute, chronic or perennial, and escalatory harassments of intense nature. The study indicates that acute forms of online harassments were dismissed, amongst others as “online show-off”, “online banter” and “online notice-me”. Thereby misrecognising online harassments as forms of efficiency-focused media criticism. Our data further show that gender is not a triggering factor to online harassment of journalists. However, political, and investigative reporting is seen as a factor. Journalists reported improved systematic intervention from media organisations and their individual coping strategies, including engaging in self-censorship among others, as coping strategies for online harassment. Suggestions for future research areas were delineated.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2260504
Eliza Mitova, Sina Blassnig, Edina Strikovic, Aleksandra Urman, Claes de Vreese, Frank Esser
An increasing number of media organisations are adopting news recommender systems (NRS). Such algorithmic technologies, which prioritise content based on, for example, previous user behaviour or popularity metrics, may have far-reaching repercussions for news work. Despite this, the implications of NRS implementation for intra-organisational practices as well as dynamics and tensions between involved actors remain understudied. Against this background, this study examines decision-making processes and relationships between actors participating in NRS projects from an institutional logics perspective and places a particular emphasis on resulting tensions between journalistic, market, and tech logics. Drawing on 32 in-depth qualitative interviews with news media professionals across ten news organisations in the Netherlands and Switzerland, we discover a wide range of strategies which aim to reconcile logic multiplicity in the specific case of NRS development. Such negotiation efforts can ultimately promote new work practices and forms of collaboration but may also have broader implications for the distribution of power and voice within news organisations.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2253928
Timothy Neff, Victor Pickard
Amid the retreat of local journalism and the resulting emergence of “news deserts,” where communities lack authentic and civically accountable sources of news, it is important to not only seek new revenue streams for news organizations but also to consider how financial resources and institutional structures secure journalistic autonomy and an abiding dedication to public service. Surveying initiatives to bolster local reporting in multiple countries, this study finds that such efforts frequently rest on an unstated optimism that market failures can be corrected and that new, sustainable business models ultimately will solve the journalism crisis. In contrast to these stopgap interventions, initiatives based on public service media principles found in the world's healthiest democracies—such as providing information across all social groups and fostering civic engagement—are better positioned to rebuild local systems in which news media are structured as enduring social institutions with crucial roles to play in democratic processes.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-11DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2255903
Anders Olof Larsson
{"title":"Scandinavian Hyperpartisans Prevail? News Use on Facebook During the Covid-19 Pandemic","authors":"Anders Olof Larsson","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2255903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2255903","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135938075","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-09-01DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247487
Magda Konieczna, Ellen Santa Maria
{"title":"“I can’t be neutral or centrist in a debate over my own humanity”: A Study of Disagreements Between Journalists and Editors, and What They Tell Us About Objectivity","authors":"Magda Konieczna, Ellen Santa Maria","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247487","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247487","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43116375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-28DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246067
S. Vermeer, Linda van den Heijkant
{"title":"Break a Story: Examining the Effects of Instagram Stories from News Accounts on Adolescents’ Political Learning","authors":"S. Vermeer, Linda van den Heijkant","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2246067","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49208362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-24DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247494
Sherwin Chua
{"title":"Platform Configuration and Digital Materiality: How News Publishers Innovate Their Practices Amid Entanglements with the Evolving Technological Infrastructure of Platforms","authors":"Sherwin Chua","doi":"10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2023.2247494","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48229953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-18DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216811
Myiah J. Hutchens, E. Romanova, Brittany Shaughnessy
ABSTRACT In two experiments, this manuscript examines the impact of uncivil news comments for both users and newsrooms. The first experiment varied the tone of the comments and determined that uncivil comments reduced media trust and outlet trust in comparison to civil comments. The second study examined the target of the comments and determined that uncivil comments targeting the author of the story decreased media trust, and uncivil comments targeting the outlet reduced trust in the specific media outlet. Neither the nature of the comments nor comment targets were related to use intentions. Implications are discussed.
{"title":"The Good, the Bad, and the Evil Media: Influence of Online Comments on Media Trust","authors":"Myiah J. Hutchens, E. Romanova, Brittany Shaughnessy","doi":"10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2216811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In two experiments, this manuscript examines the impact of uncivil news comments for both users and newsrooms. The first experiment varied the tone of the comments and determined that uncivil comments reduced media trust and outlet trust in comparison to civil comments. The second study examined the target of the comments and determined that uncivil comments targeting the author of the story decreased media trust, and uncivil comments targeting the outlet reduced trust in the specific media outlet. Neither the nature of the comments nor comment targets were related to use intentions. Implications are discussed.","PeriodicalId":17541,"journal":{"name":"Journalism Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":"1440 - 1457"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48237356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-08-14DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2023.2246076
L. Jacobs, J. van Spanje
ABSTRACT This study addresses the question what makes hate crime incidents newsworthy and which factors are conducive to such incidents being reported on. Relying on news value theory, we identify criteria (cultural proximity, conflict) that explain why some hate crimes make the news and why others do not. We use a dataset of police-registered hate crimes in the Netherlands in 2017 (N = 3379). This is the entire population of hate crimes that the police reported in the whole country. This allows us to disentangle dynamics of the news selection process and identify bias. We find that both target group and type of hate crime affect the newsworthiness: hate crimes with victims targeted due to religious motives (Islamophobia, anti-Semitism) are more likely to be covered; hate crimes based on sexual orientation, gender and ethnicity are less likely to pass the gates. Hate crimes that are more conflictual in nature (i.e., violent hate crimes, vandalism) are more likely to be covered too. These selection effects likely have important effects on public awareness and political reactions.
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