ABSTRACTContemporary journalism is facing challenges because several changes in the world: the decline of democracy,: the proliferation of false information (both in “official” and informal spaces), the raise (and transformation) of communication agencies with profit priority, and the urgent need to promote educational alternatives for citizenship. For all these reasons, it is necessary the presence of information channels that maintain a balance between the quality of information, economic sustainability, and the promotion of active audiences. This is particularly important when the conditions for the exercise of journalism are facing regimes with conditions of authoritarianism, such as hybrid democracies and authoritarian governments. In this article, success stories of independent journalism in Peru, Honduras, and Mexico will be analyzed, as well as their strategies to guarantee responsible practice and economic sustainability. In this sense, the cases will be analyzed through system thinking, considering the characterization and common elements found in three Latin American hybrid democracies.KEYWORDS: Independent journalismhybrid democraciesjournalistic deontologydisinformationdigital journalismmultimedial journalism Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-10-21DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2022.2034520
Margareta Salonen, Margarethe Olbertz-Siitonen, T. Uskali, Salla-Maaria Laaksonen
ABSTRACT Digital platforms, such as social media networks, have become intertwined in the news ecosystem, leading news media to lose their role as the sole gatekeeper in the public space. This development has given an active voice to audiences and turned journalism more into conversations between journalists and their audiences. The starting observation for this article was that alongside journalists, platforms and audiences play a part in the gatekeeping process that takes place post-publication, and therefore we need to gain a better understanding of this triadic relationship. Furthermore, as conversations are one of the main functions of social media platforms, more understanding of the role of social interaction in post-publication gatekeeping is needed. After analysing posts (N = 180) and their comments on Finnish newspapers’ Facebook pages utilising content and digital conversation analysis, we extend the traditional gatekeeping theory to post-publication practices of gatekeeping and finally suggest the concept of conversational gatekeeping. The concept explains how through social interaction journalists and social media audiences are able to build mutual understanding and create norms as well as decide on the content and action that is appropriate or wanted in the public news space formed on the particular online platform.
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Pub Date : 2023-10-11DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2266483
Signe Ivask, Lenka Waschková Císařová
ABSTRACTIn response to the Covid-19 pandemic, newsrooms mediated information as quickly as possible for their information-starved audience. In Estonia, Covid-19 initially impacted two large islands, which led to their isolation from the mainland as a precaution. Therefore, local journalism became more crucial than ever, providing news with proximity to the audience members who needed guidance and information, and informing the rest of the nation about the consequences the virus was having on the people of the islands. Considering the pressure on the locals, the interest of the rest of Estonia, and the unfamiliar emergency situation, our study focuses on local newsrooms’ approaches to digital news at the centre of Estonia’s lockdown on the islands of Saaremaa and Hiiumaa. We conducted eight semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that local journalists had a limited understanding of the importance of their online presence during (and before) the lockdown, and, therefore, lacked the willingness to carry out the digital shift. The shift was also hindered by the journalists’ lack of skills and knowledge of digital platforms and their specificity. Overall, we call local journalists on the islands “digital beginners”.KEYWORDS: Local journalismCovid-19emergencydigital journalismdigital shiftlocal journalists Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Additional informationFundingThis work was supported from Operational Programme Research, Development and Education – Project “Postdoc2MUNI” [grant number CZ.02.2.69/0.0/0.0/18_053/0016952].
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Pub Date : 2023-10-09DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2262444
Alejandro Fernández-Roldán, Carlos Elías, Carlos Santiago-Caballero, David Teira
ABSTRACTPolitical fact-checkers evaluate the truthfulness of politicians’ claims. This paper contributes to an emerging scholarly debate on whether fact-checkers treat political parties differently in a systematic manner depending on their ideology (bias). We first examine the available approaches to analyze bias and then present a new approach in two steps. First, we propose a logistic regression model to analyze the outcomes of fact-checks and calculate how likely each political party will obtain a truth score. We test our model with a sample of fact-checks from Newtral, a prominent Spanish fact-checker. Our model would signal bias under two assumptions: (a) all political parties are on average equally accurate in their statements; (b) the verification method gives precise instructions and is implemented systematically. We investigate this second assumption with a series of interviews with Newtral fact-checkers. We show that standard verification protocols are loosely implemented and therefore fact-checks reflect a set of journalistic decisions, rather than a bias in the statistical sense. We call for a more rigorous definition of verification methods as a pre-requisite for an unbiased assessment of politician’s claims.KEYWORDS: Fact-checkingpolitical partiesbiasnoiseimpartialitypublic opinion Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 Politifact received a Pullitzer prize in 2009 – https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/staff-69 (accessed: 21st March 2022).2 We use verification as a synonym to fact-checking.3 The IFCN mentions replicability: “Signatories want their readers to be able to verify findings themselves. Signatories provide all sources in enough detail that readers can replicate their work, except in cases where a source’s personal security could be compromised.” – https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/know-more/the-commitments-of-the-code-of-principles (accessed: 21st March 2022).4 We use this term loosely, mostly as a synonym to fact-checking, as in Brashier et al. (Citation2021).5 As in: Graves Citation2018.6 There is no evidence that politicians in mainstream parties that represent mainstream ideologies are consistently more or less accurate in their statements. Therefore, we will assume that they have equal probability of being more or less accurate.7 Description gathered from Newtral: https://www.Newtral.es/quienes-somos/ (accessed: 21st March 2022).8 https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org (accessed: 21st March 2022).9 https://www.Newtral.es/metodologia-transparencia/ (accessed: 21st March 2022).10 Not all the fact-checks in the sample are independently published nor have a separate web link: Newtral also publishes compilations of fact-checks in a single piece. As a result, we counted as one fact-check each time Newtral issued a verdict according to their scale, regardless the fact-check was published isolated or in a compilation. However, we ruled out those fact-checks that were d
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Pub Date : 2023-10-05DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2263753
Shangyuan Wu
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2259875
Xin Zhao, Jamie Matthews, Daniel Jackson, Claudia Mellado, Yasser Abuali, Einar Thorsen, Antje Glück
While journalism scholarship has long been exploring how journalistic role performance (“JRP” thereafter) varies in different scenarios, seldom have studies captured how JRP during public health crises reflects the all-around influence of such crises on journalism practice. To fill the gap, our study examined the patterns of JRP in UK news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic. We draw on a content analysis of 4,184 news stories from 15 UK national news outlets across television, radio, print, and online platforms in 2020. Our results indicate that UK journalism emphasised the performance of the service role by providing news of use to the public, the civic role by (partially) inviting the public into political life, and the interventionist role by explicitly bringing to the fore journalists’ voices. UK journalism also suppressed the infotainment role. The power relations between UK journalists and the government showed a more complicated picture. UK journalists performed a watchdog role by maintaining a seemingly sceptical and distant approach to government sources, yet also showed traces of cooperation with government agendas in ensuring compliance with public health messaging. These findings are discussed in relation to ongoing debates in health and crisis news, and journalistic role performance.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2260784
Diana Garrisi
ABSTRACTDrawing on the tenets of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), this paper presents a discourse analysis of UK news coverage regarding the phenomenon commonly referred to as “pet regret”. This is an informal expression coined by mainstream media to indicate feelings of remorse experienced by individuals who acquired a companion animal during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently found themselves questioning their decision, leading some to consider relinquish or leaving without care their pet. This paper will discuss examples from newspapers that used a moralistic framework to depict pet owners by resorting to forms of value judgments woven into rhetorical and syntactic structures. The tone of these judgments reinforces a type of representation grounded on binary thinking, potentially encouraging classifications of people based on reductive notions of right and wrong.KEYWORDS: Pet regretnonviolent communicationcondensation symbolBritish pressCOVID-19value judgement AcknowledgementThe author would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive feedback.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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Pub Date : 2023-09-28DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2263414
Michael Pakvis, Jonathan Hendrickx
ABSTRACTGrowing groups of scholars express fears that rising media ownership consolidation negatively affects news content diversity. Existing research has mainly focused on quantitative studies, thereby somewhat neglecting the qualitative component. To fill this gap in scholarship, we combine news content homogeneity studies with framing analysis to assess how discourse in reporting related to the refugee crisis changed across four newspapers from Belgium (Flanders) between 2010, 2015 and 2020, a time during which they all underwent major ownership changes. Our findings suggest limited effects of ownership concentration on frames and discourse, indicating a more nuanced picture among alarmist findings. We do argue, however, that media concentration and the increased collaborations between newsrooms of the same parent company can do more harm than good. We position our findings within the specificalities of the Flemish media market as well as international research, both from a news (content) diversity and a framing studies vantage point.KEYWORDS: Media consolidationnews diversityframing analysisqualitative researchnews coveragecase study Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 The four newspapers chosen are amongst those with constant high circulation numbers in Belgium. Most recent numbers show that the Standaard has a reach of 457.000 readers per day in print and digital edition. Reach of Nieuwsblad is counted together with other popular regional newspapers, amounting to a total of 1.595.000 readers (Mediahuis 2022). Daily reach of de Morgen is 285.000 whereas Het Laatste Nieuws reaches 1.482.000 readers (DPG Media, Citationn.d.)2 GoPress, since our study rebranded as BelgaPress, is the official Belgian online news content repository, hosted by the national agency but featuring content from all leading print and online news outlets. It offers an interface of all Flemish newspaper publications free to utilise for research. It automatically archives publications for the purpose of potential research interests. These are available according to timeframes or theme one is looking for.3 As a multi-language federal state, Belgium has multiple regions, communities and governments across linguistic and geographical divides. However, only the federal government has the mandate to regulate migration to the country. As such, we only take these government constellations into account.
摘要越来越多的学者担心媒体所有权整合会对新闻内容的多样性产生负面影响。现有的研究主要集中在定量研究上，从而在一定程度上忽视了定性的组成部分。为了填补这一学术空白，我们将新闻内容同质性研究与框架分析相结合，以评估2010年、2015年至2020年期间，比利时(法兰德斯)四家报纸与难民危机相关的报道话语是如何变化的，在此期间，它们都经历了重大的所有权变化。我们的研究结果表明，所有权集中度对框架和话语的影响有限，在危言耸听的研究结果中表明了更微妙的情况。然而，我们确实认为，媒体集中和同一母公司新闻编辑室之间合作的增加弊大于利。我们从新闻(内容)多样性和框架研究的有利位置，将我们的发现定位在佛兰德媒体市场和国际研究的特殊性中。关键词:媒体整合新闻多样性框架分析定性研究新闻报道案例研究披露声明作者未报告潜在利益冲突注1所选的四份报纸都是比利时发行量一直很高的报纸。最近的数据显示，《标准报》的印刷版和电子版每天有45.7万名读者。《Nieuwsblad》的读者群与其他受欢迎的地区性报纸一起计算，总共有159.5万名读者(Mediahuis 2022)。de Morgen的每日阅读量为28.5万，而et Laatste Nieuws的读者为148.2万(DPG Media, citationnd .)2 GoPress，由于我们的研究被重新命名为BelgaPress，是比利时官方在线新闻内容库，由国家机构托管，但提供来自所有主要印刷和在线新闻媒体的内容。它提供了一个所有佛兰德报纸出版物的界面，供研究人员免费使用。它自动存档出版物的目的是潜在的研究兴趣。这些都可以根据时间框架或主题一个正在寻找作为一个多语言的联邦国家，比利时有多个地区、社区和政府，跨越语言和地理的鸿沟。然而，只有联邦政府有权管理移民到该国。因此，我们只考虑这些政府星座。
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Pub Date : 2023-09-27DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2262976
Yoram Timmerman, Sarah Van Leuven, Antoon Bronselaer
Online news has rapidly claimed its place in the media landscape, and with it came the practice of incremental news updates being integrated in existing content. Yet, considering this fluid news production, researchers have been struggling with freezing the news flow and capturing the different article versions, implying that incremental news updates form an understudied phenomenon. Therefore, we conduct a large-scale study on the usage of online news updates by applying regular interval content capturing. Using in-house developed software, all 291,666 articles and 197,979 associated updates written by six leading Flemish news outlets in a period of two years (2019–2021) are collected. It is examined how commonly and in what ways updates are applied. Furthermore, a subset of 11,293 articles is manually analyzed to examine the reason(s) for applying updates. Results indicate that updates are commonly applied across all news outlets and topics. 35% of the articles are updated at least once and an updated article is updated 1.94 times on average. Approximately 4.2% of textual changes are made to correct objective or subjective errors, typically without any communication towards the reader. Therefore, we argue that transparency regarding news updates should be enhanced.
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Pub Date : 2023-09-25DOI: 10.1080/17512786.2023.2259378
Lauren Furey, Jason Turcotte, Janean Sorrell, Nadia Urbina, Emily Frisan, Nicolas Corrales
ABSTRACTGabby Petito, a 22-year-old white woman, went missing during a cross-country road trip in September 2021. Police later found Petito’s body in Wyoming and traced the cause of death to her fiancé, who was traveling with her. Every detail of Petito’s disappearance played out for the world to see through mass media, yet this coverage also received criticism for failing to shed light on women of color, who are often ignored when they go missing. The purpose of this content analysis was to compare coverage of Gabby Petito’s disappearance to women of color who went missing around the same time to examine whether they gained more coverage after Petito’s received so much criticism. Findings revealed that women of color still had fewer stories, less national coverage, and lower word counts than missing white women. However, some coverage inequity improved in the months following the Petito case. Also, problematic narratives about women of color from past literature (e.g., they are often described as at risk of becoming missing persons because of patterns like domestic violence, drug use, and mental illness) were rarely depicted across coverage, which may indicate short-term improvement in how missing women of color are treated in news coverage.KEYWORDS: Missing white woman syndromewomen of colorjournalismcrime newsagenda settingframingcontent analysis Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).
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