Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0005
Benjamin Toff
This chapter makes the case that the task of engagement for journalism researchers is far more challenging than is typically appreciated. Even provocative research findings must ruthlessly compete for the attention of highly distracted audiences. This chapter outlines results from a small study examining relative rates of social media interactions (e.g., comments, shares, and likes) on Facebook posts made by three organizations that seek to bridge the divide between academia and professional communities of practice—the Columbia Journalism Review, Nieman Journalism Lab, and the Poynter Institute. Analysis of what posts do (and do not) receive attention show that although some scholarly research attracts engagement, it pales in comparison to other posts circulated by these same organizations. The findings suggest that translating research in the contemporary media environment requires more innovative and proactive outreach strategies.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0001
Valérie Bélair-Gagnon, N. Usher
This chapter introduces the book by claiming the urgency of Journalism Studies and reflects on how academics have engaged with practice and the public. It provides an overview of some misconceptions about the crisis in journalism. It also presents ways forward for how journalists and practitioners can produce rigorous academic research that matters.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0009
Yee Man Margaret Ng
This study represents a unique opportunity to study aspects of human behavior related to journalism projects collaboration at scale. Collaborative journalism deserves further inquiry in light of its growing importance, the resources devoted to it, and its role in creating more opportunities for news media in the face of economic and technological challenges. It theorizes how journalism collaborative/interest groups were created, maintained, and sustained. Methodologically, this study attempts to mine GitHub’s API to identify influential individuals and discover the network patterns of social collaboration in newsrooms’ repositories.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0018
Derek Willis
This is a short commentary from a practice perspective.
这是一个简短的评论，从实践的角度来看。
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0007
M. Tully
News literacy efforts address news content, production, consumption, and contexts to holistically explore the role of news in society, with a particular focus on the importance of news for informing self-governing citizens. Although news literacy is not a cure-all, it should be part of a broader solution to developing a media system that provides audiences with news and information that is relevant to their lives. With this in mind, we, as researchers, educators, practitioners, and professionals, need to think about how to teach news literacy and encourage its application. Research and practice should strive to improve news literacy, increase confidence in individuals’ abilities, and convince audiences that news literacy is applicable to their lives.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0017
Jennifer Moore
This is a short commentary from a practice perspective. Would We Do It Again?
这是一个简短的评论，从实践的角度来看。我们还会这样做吗?
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Pub Date : 2021-08-05DOI: 10.1093/OSO/9780197538470.003.0015
Danielle K. Kilgo
After the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, mainstream newspaper coverage focused extensively on protesters actions and left little room for narratives that explore the demands, grievances, and agendas of the social movement to end police violence and save Black lives. Over time, coverage of Black Lives Matter protests remained problematic and publicly critiqued. This chapter uses a content analysis of newspaper coverage four years after the death of Michael Brown to reassess press coverage narratives that dominated the protests that followed the police killing of unarmed Stephon Clark in Sacramento, California. Digital newspaper coverage from national, large metropolitan and local papers was analyzed for six months after the March 20, 2018 shooting of Clark. Coverage was also tracked through public social media networks to look for narrative patterns in the most shared coverage.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0011
N. Usher, M. Poepsel
This chapter challenges the conventional assumption that journalism can be saved through a singular business model. We argue, using examples from the United States, that scholars and journalists need to be more holistically engaged with the economics of media more generally, and different types of journalism beyond newspaper and digital-first outlets. Second, scholars and journalists need to be more intellectually honest about their aims in conducting this research: Is research on news business models aimed at propping up corporate-funded journalism? What is the purpose of critiquing current business models, and are the solutions proposed really tenable or equitable within current political and social landscapes? Third, universities should consider their strengths and limitations in serving as potential “bubbles” for innovation, experimentation, and insulation from commercial pressures.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0010
Damon Kiesow
In news organizations today, editorial strategy is business strategy. The two are entirely intertwined. Understanding either requires studying both. With the shift to digital, the process of publishing the news has transitioned from a series of loosely coupled, sequential, and periodic production tasks to a set of complex, overlapping, and stochastic outputs requiring significant alignment and coordination to succeed. For journalists, these changes are challenging newsroom norms and driving an embrace of human-centered design practices and product thinking. For academics it is an opportunity to study the remaking of organizational roles and relationships in the business of digital news, an effort that is still in its infancy.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0012
Rachel R. Mourão, Soo-Young Shin
This study details the development of a public affairs reporting course for journalism schools in resource-limited communities offered at a land-grant institution surrounded by a resource-strapped community. This chapter focuses on inequalities related to opportunities for engagement, both when it comes to newsrooms and academic settings. More specifically, we address the challenges of teaching a multimedia-based curriculum while maintaining historical relationships with local citizens in Michigan. Our approach of combining survey, content analysis, in-depth interviews, and a field experiment provides a framework for connecting journalism education with communities surrounding land-grant institutions.
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