Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0003
Jesse Holcomb
Public-facing research institutions and university centers have played an outsized role in collecting and disseminating knowledge about local news trends in the United States. Philanthropic support, attention by policymakers, and a sense of urgency around the crisis facing local journalism have incentivized the emergence of this particular kind of research that sits adjacent to, but not fully inside, the scholarly environment. This material is well positioned to engage and activate interventions aiming to help address the crisis in local journalism and provide empirical grist for deeper scholarly work. At the same time, however, this line of public scholarship is sometimes unmoored from theoretical considerations, highly descriptive, and exists outside of peer review systems. Many of these institutions setting the agenda for research about local journalism are bound by their own norms and cultures from making robust normative claims about how the industry should respond and adapt to their findings. This chapter traces the brief history of para-scholarly groundwork mapping local news, outlines the strengths and weaknesses of this model, and suggests collaborative practices going forward that connect this important groundwork with theory-driven and peer review practices.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0008
S. Edgerly
At any given moment there are a multitude of media options competing for the public’s attention. While some of these options include news, many others include entertainment offerings. This chapter discusses the underlying psychology of news consumption, including the obstacles and challenges that prevent news consumption and hinder news engagement, as well as the need to think of audiences in more specific ways. This understanding requires journalists to learn and develop a new skill set that marries news judgment with audience-based research. Today’s journalists need to know who consumes what, how, and why. With this knowledge, journalists have the ability to tell stories from a perspective that audiences care about and to create innovative distribution channels for their work. Such insight is necessary for combating the growing inequalities in how much people intentionally seek out news or incidentally consume it, or what researchers refer to as “news exposure.”
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0014
Brian Ekdale
We are witnessing a global turn toward ethno-nationalism and xenophobia that raises important questions about what those who are engaged in scholarly knowledge production are doing to implicitly or explicitly perpetuate ethnocentrism. This chapter focuses on the problem of Eurocentrism, and Americentrism more specifically, in journalism and mass communication studies. Although public engagement typically focuses on sharing scholarly knowledge with audiences outside of academia, scholars need to be open and responsive to critiques of our own professional practices. This chapter first documents inequities in scholarly knowledge production between the Global North and Global South, and then offers a brief contextualization of the structural nature of these inequities. Finally, the chapter recommends specific practices journalism scholars based in the Global North can do to become better allies of their colleagues in the Global South, and highlights recent efforts to engage the academy around the issue of inequities in scholarly knowledge production.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0013
Jan Lauren Boyles
Decades after the public journalism movement attempted to redefine the relationship between news outlets and the communities they cover, local journalists are still grappling with how best to cultivate audiences in civic spaces. Community news providers—battling against diminished levels of trust in media institutions—are seeking to counter these sentiments by building closer partnerships with their readers. In this light, data journalism is often heralded for its ability to coalesce fragmented audiences in conversation around salient civic issues. Yet despite its promise, successful storytelling requires basic data literacy skills on behalf of both practitioners and the public. To understand the story, all parties must understand the data. This chapter tackles programmatic efforts to address societal shortfalls in data knowledge and accessibility across the news production/consumption spectrum (with an emphasis on journalism experiments in community news).
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0002
Jane Yeahin Pyo, N. Usher
This chapter is a reminder that practice and theory have gone hand in hand since the beginning of professional journalism. However, this history and this partnership have been lost somewhat, particularly when it comes to PhD research. By calling back to the land-grant mission at the universities home to the first schools of journalism in the United States (the University of Missouri, the University of Illinois, the University of Wisconsin), the chapter recalls how the focus on skills and on understanding mass communication was aligned with the mission of journalism education. The chapter examines the founding of the Institute of Communications Research at the University of Illinois and its PhD program that focused on applied journalism and mass communication research, explaining the role of legendary journalism scholar James Carey in recentering (and decentering) the tension between practice and research.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0019
Matt Carlson
This chapter concludes the book by reflecting on the concept of engagement.
本章通过对参与概念的反思来结束本书。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0016
Chase Davis
This is a short commentary from a practice perspective. How Academics Can Work with Journalists (Hint: They Already Have)
这是一个简短的评论，从实践的角度来看。学者如何与记者合作(提示:他们已经这样做了)
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0006
Lindsay Palmer
This chapter focuses on international journalism research, offering the following suggestions: First, scholarship on international journalism should be prepared to more directly and publicly critique the ethnocentrism that has long plagued international correspondence based in the English-speaking West, and that continues to be a problem in the digital age. Second, scholars of international news work need to be prepared to interrogate the structural inequalities that inform journalistic labor on an international scale, inequalities that have not disappeared with the rise of digital technologies. Third, scholars of international journalism need to more directly engage not only with big-brand correspondents, editors, and news executives, but also with the freelancers, stringers, and local fixers who hold these international news professions on their backs. The chapter ultimately argues that journalism scholars should be building more bridges between journalism research and journalism practice.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-22DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197538470.003.0004
Matthew S. Weber
Journalism has had difficulty to connect outside of the academy. Journalism Studies scholars are positioned with policy to connect disparate areas of knowledge and to forge connections that advance policymaking. In order to explore the issue, first, this chapter will explore the ways in which Journalism Studies have focused on policy issues. Second, it will advocate for the role of journalism researchers in policymaking, specifically on building on research focused on the brokerage of knowledge, meaning, translating research findings into policy and serving as key connectors who can bridge the gap between academic research and industry practice—and should take on this role more directly. And third, this chapter makes connections to broader epistemological conversations about the use of research evidence as a policymaking mechanism.
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