Pub Date : 2022-06-20DOI: 10.1177/19312431221106375
Anna Young, David J. Atkin
News consumption has been dramatically altered by the rise of social media. The current study examines the international news section of Google News by looking at the frequency and valence of coverage of other nations. News headlines and snippets about various countries are compared to public perceptions, in order to assess the agenda set by the most popular online news aggregator: Google. The public agenda is based on a dedicated survey. Study results provide qualified support for a framework derived from agenda setting theory. In particular, systems-level variables--such as a nation‘s political philosophy and perceived cultural proximity--influence media agenda-setting.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1177/19312431221103127
Sherice Gearhart, I. Coman, Alexander Moe, S. Brammer
News organizations increasingly use Facebook to expand their reach and foster audience engagement. However, this free platform exposes news audiences to user comments before accessing and reading news articles. This exposure shapes the visible opinion climate and has the potential to influence readers. Through the application of the hostile media bias hypothesis, the influence of Facebook comments on COVID-19 related news articles and a knowledge-based assessment on perceptions of news bias and credibility are tested using a nationwide sample of Facebook users (N = 450). Findings show that user comments enhance negative perceptions of bias and diminish perceptions of favorability. The ability for knowledge-based assessments to alleviate this negative influence may induce reactance and needs further investigation.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-29DOI: 10.1177/19312431221105006
Kim Fox
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Pub Date : 2022-05-16DOI: 10.1177/19312431221098731
Anthony C. Adornato, Allison Frisch
This study analyzes survey data, gathered in 2014 and 2020, regarding local television newsrooms’ social media policies (SMPs). The purpose of the study is to explore changes to these policies. As part of this inquiry, the researchers investigate if and in which ways newsroom SMPs are evolving in four areas: journalists’ professional and personal social media activities; social media sources and content; audience complaints; and ownership of on-air talents’ accounts. The researchers found a significant increase of guidelines regarding what is and is not appropriate on the professional and personal social media of journalists, with little distinction made between these types of accounts. Although newsrooms have implemented policies to articulate what is appropriate conduct and a majority have revised policies, those guidelines don't always address the contemporary issues journalists face, specifically online threats and verification of user-generated content. The researchers found an increasing percentage of news outlets retain ownership of on-air talents’ professional accounts.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-09DOI: 10.1177/19312431221090682
Sima Bhowmik
In professional role conception, journalists are depicted as ‘watchdogs’ or ‘advocates’ (Shoemaker & Vos, 2009). Both concepts suggest that journalists should work for the public, provide information in a way which helps them to create effective public opinion important for democratic decision-making (Tsfati et al., 2006). Some scholars also argue that the practice of socially responsible journalism is helping shape more transparent public opinion (Kempf, 2007). Janice S. Ellis (2021) refers to these practices as ‘real advocacy journalism.’According to her, Real Advocacy JournalismTM is a form of public discourse free of propaganda, not for the interest of any vested quarter, but for the benefit of the people. She suggests journalists should strive to create this type of effective public opinion in politics, economics, social, and other matters. In her 2021 book titled, “Shaping Public Opinion: How Real Advocacy JournalismTM Should be Practiced,” Ellis explains how to apply the concept of ‘real advocacy journalism’ in the profession. In most parts of the book, the author draws the examples from the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Walter Lippmann, whose articles, columns, and books had great influence, not only in the United States but also around the world during the 20th century. In Chapter 1 the author introduces journalist, writer and columnist Walter Lippman, his role as a guardian of public interest, and his moral obligation ‘to elucidate what is good’. Ellis asserts that reasoned discourse had always been at the core of Lippmann’s writings as he had taken over the responsibility of sharing the burden of the average person and always considered what was best for them. Lippmann was a political and social theorist who advocated practicing liberal democracy in his numerous books, articles and columns. Lippmann’s columns were syndicated in more than 250 newspapers across the United States and in 25 countries around the world. Ellis claimed that Lippman, through his columns in the New York Herald Tribune from Book Review
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Pub Date : 2022-04-24DOI: 10.1177/19312431221095207
Kevin G. Thompson, Gilbert Carter, Edwin S. Lee, Talal Alshamrani, A. Billings
When gymnast Simone Biles withdrew from several events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics due to concern for her mental health, media organizations discussed both her departure and return to competition. Utilizing framing theory, 192 domestic and international news sources published from July to August 2021 were thematically analyzed to examine how media covered Biles's exit and ultimate return to competition. Results show media covered Biles overwhelmingly positively while focusing on her mental health, productivity as an individual and team athlete, heroism, and gender. More specifically, themes of Biles's gender and race were commonly paired with the theme of heroism. Results also indicate domestic news sources were much more likely to mention Biles's race than international news sources. This work adds to growing scholarship about media coverage of high-profile athletes’ mental health disclosures.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-14DOI: 10.1177/19312431221093090
Monica Chadha, K. H. Kwon, J. Tsai
Based on the principles of localism and Critical Information Needs (CIN), this study analyzed the news content posted on Facebook by three television news channels—one local ABC affiliate each in Phoenix, Arizona and Kearney, Nebraska, and ABC News network channel — to examine the extent to which these posts fulfilled the critical information needs of audiences via social media. Results showed the local channel in Phoenix posted more CIN content than both, national network ABC and the local television channel in Kearney. Audience engagement with CIN posts differed across communities, with some categories increasing engagement in Phoenix and the same categories decreasing engagement in Kearney. This finding highlights not all critical information posts lead to increased audience engagement on social media and it is important for television channels to pay attention to content format and user feedback to further increase audience engagement with critical information.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-16DOI: 10.1177/19312431221087247
Zhan Xu, David J. Atkin
Debates about anthropogenic climate change grew increasingly polarized as online channels emerged as primary news sources. This raises the question of how online media shape the perceived salience of climate change issues. Guided by agenda-setting theory and framing theory, this study utilized topic modeling to examine online climate change advocacy and denial webpages posted from 2007–2019. Engagement with media agendas, public agendas, and framing related to climate change were examined. Advocacy webpages were more engaging than denial webpages. The more frequently that a climate change topical frame was covered by online media, the more likely it would be engaged on social media (SM). Climate change topical frames differed in their ability to engage SM users. Several competing climate change advocacy and denial topical frames differed significantly in SM engagement. Results can help researchers to design effective climate change campaigns as well as develop programs to track and combat online misinformation.
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Pub Date : 2022-02-22DOI: 10.1177/19312431221081843
M. Feldstein
In 1968, CBS News aired the first episode of “60Minutes” and created a new broadcast genre, the television news magazine, which provided more depth than the network’s nightly half-hour newscast, and more variety and pizzaz than the sober hour-long single-issue documentaries of the day. The show introduced entertainment values and multimillion-dollar profits to the once unprofitable news division, prompting other networks to launch a host of imitators that continue to this day. The key to the program’s success was packaging it as the adventures of its star correspondents: Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Dan Rather, and others. However, behind the scenes, the real journalismwas done by the show’s invisible off-air producers who dug up the show’s stories, scouted field locations, conducted most of the interviews, and often wrote the scripts that the famous correspondents narrated—for far less money than the ballyhooed on-air “talent” was paid. Ira Rosen, one of Wallace’s producers, in his book “Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes” describes the toxic work culture that permeated “60 Minutes.” He writes that the newsroom was filled with screaming, shouting, and humiliating verbal abuse, as well as chronic back-stabbing and stealing of colleagues’ sources and stories. “The tension of the job led...producers to develop heart disease or cancer at an early age,” Rosen writes. “But I endured all the abuse, in part out of fear, but mostly out of ambition” (pp. 24, 4). For Rosen, the power and prestige of working at “60 Minutes” was irresistible—exciting travel, lavish expense accounts, brushing elbows with the famous: “It was like being Superman” (p. 5). The investigative reporting in which Rosen specialized reached an audience of millions and his exposés of crooked politicians, con men, and Mafiosi often produced dramatic results. Rosen describes hunting the bad guys for CBS “like being a spy with a license to kill” (p. 4). (Full disclosure: I occasionally crossed paths with Rosen during my career in television news, though we neither competed nor worked together.) Book Review
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Pub Date : 2022-02-01DOI: 10.1177/19312431221075342
Whitney Harris
Despite more acceptance for natural Black hair in the workplace nationwide, highly-skilled students of color hoping to enter broadcast journalism-related fields are often still deterred from pursuing their dream careers. This is due to concerns about the perception of their natural hair. Many broadcast journalism students report seeing mostly straight hair on TV - and that can be a discouragement to those whose looks don't conform. As students learn about the challenges Black women working in local TV news face, particularly when it comes to strict regulations on their hairstyles and hair textures, it can affect their enthusiasm for pursuing such careers. Focus groups conducted at the University of the District of Columbia and American University with broadcast journalism students highlight the importance of continuing to foster conversations and create policies that help to end hair-based discrimination, particularly in the field of broadcast journalism.
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