Pub Date : 2023-04-27DOI: 10.1177/14648849231173204
Andrea D. Wenzel
This study looks at a public media station’s effort to build a “mutual aid journalism collaborative” connecting a cohort of community and ethnic media journalists, podcasters, bloggers, and social media influencers, most of whom had a mission of serving Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities in a U.S. metro region. Using a communication infrastructure theory framework to explore how this initiative affected local “storytelling networks,” this study draws from observations, interviews with project partners and station staff, focus groups and interviews with newsroom staff, and focus groups with community members. The study reflects on how the project conceived of community engagement and how it positioned itself as “mutual aid” from within a mainstream majority white news institution. It examines how the project challenged dominant norms around “objectivity” as it strengthened connections between public media and grassroots influencers, but also the limitations the project faced connecting to broader community constituencies.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-26DOI: 10.1177/14648849231170519
Ramón Salaverría, María-del-Pilar Martínez-Costa
Digital journalism has been a reality in Spain for nearly 30 years. In this time, the number of digital media outlets has steadily increased to become the most abundant type of media in the 2020s, ahead of print, radio and television. Based on a quantitative analysis of the authors’ own database of active digital media outlets ( n = 2726) and an examination of Spain’s technological, sociopolitical and economic development in recent decades, this article identifies several factors that have spurred the evolution of digital journalism in Spain. The study results show a correlation in the period from 1994 to 2020 between the percentage of Internet users and the number of active digital media outlets, which showed very similar progress. The study also detects a relationship between the country’s economic evolution and the expansion of digital media, albeit with a seemingly paradoxical effect: digital media, especially digital native media companies, proliferated even more when the economy was at its worst. The article highlights the subtle effects of political factors on the development of digital media in the period under study, although increasing political polarization has triggered additional transformation processes in recent years.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-25DOI: 10.1177/14648849231157845
D. Kravets, A. Ryzhova, F. Toepfl, A. Beseler
Extant research demonstrated that the algorithms of the Kremlin-controlled search engine Yandex, compared to those of its US-based counterpart Google, frequently produce results that are biased toward the interests of Russia’s ruling elites. Prior research, however, audited Yandex’s algorithms largely within Russia. In contrast, this study is the first to assess the role of Yandex’s web search algorithms as a resource for Russia’s informational influence abroad. To do so, we conduct a comparative algorithm audit of Google and Yandex in Belarus, examining the visibility and narratives of COVID-19-related conspiracy theories in their search results. By manually analysing the content of 1320 search results collected in mid-April to mid-May 2020, we find that, compared with Google, (1) Yandex retrieves significantly more conspiratorial content (2) that close to exclusively suspects US plotters to be behind the pandemic, even though the virus spread from the Chinese city of Wuhan across the globe.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1177/14648849231169886
E. Atad, Jonathan Cohen
This study examines whether viewers’ parasocial interaction with a journalist affects the credibility of the journalist and the credibility of the news message, as well as whether the journalist’s direct or indirect address triggers this effect. In a between-subjects experiment ( N = 255), viewers had a more intense parasocial experience when the journalist addressed them directly rather than indirectly. Furthermore, viewers’ intense parasocial experiences contributed to their perceptions of source credibility, message credibility, and news enjoyment. Additionally, as predicted, a more vital parasocial experience indirectly affected credibility through enjoyment. The results concern journalist and news message credibility and the importance of audience engagement in the news is discussed.
{"title":"Look me in the eyes: How direct address affects viewers’ experience of parasocial interaction and credibility?","authors":"E. Atad, Jonathan Cohen","doi":"10.1177/14648849231169886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849231169886","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines whether viewers’ parasocial interaction with a journalist affects the credibility of the journalist and the credibility of the news message, as well as whether the journalist’s direct or indirect address triggers this effect. In a between-subjects experiment ( N = 255), viewers had a more intense parasocial experience when the journalist addressed them directly rather than indirectly. Furthermore, viewers’ intense parasocial experiences contributed to their perceptions of source credibility, message credibility, and news enjoyment. Additionally, as predicted, a more vital parasocial experience indirectly affected credibility through enjoyment. The results concern journalist and news message credibility and the importance of audience engagement in the news is discussed.","PeriodicalId":74027,"journal":{"name":"Journalism (London, England)","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90060698","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-04-14DOI: 10.1177/14648849231169185
Carina Tenor
This paper explores the implementation process of digital audience metrics as a key strategy in Swedish legacy news production during the last three decades. The historical adoption of metrics in the newsroom is not new but has grown fast (from analogue audience measurements in the 1950s and monthly statistics of unique visitors in the 1990s to a wide range of real-time data). This trend is important because Swedish news organisations have invested heavily in data analytics, which involves integrating metrics-driven journalism into a particularly strong and homogenous tradition of professional autonomy. Based on interviews with key senior managers and supported by the analysis of trade publications, as well as published interviews, the findings reveal three chronologically overlapping periods: the naïve stage of ‘getting online’, the destructive period of ‘social media prominence’, and the end of the ‘paywall hesitation’. This trend has led to a new equilibrium in which audience metrics are perceived as better aligned with the professional values of news selection. More importantly, the industry-wide embrace of metrics as guidance for more relevant and rational news production revolves around two main factors: First, although metrics are tied to organisational targets, they remain under editorial control. Second, the degree of granularity and diversification of metrics allow for wider support of their use for strategic purposes.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-12DOI: 10.1177/14648849231170063
P. Truyens, I. Picone
Although the ‘audience turn’ ( Costera Meijer, 2020 ) in journalism has been extensively discussed in studies, and journalists acknowledge the need to improve their relationship with their audience ( Nelson and Lewis 2022 ), the audience’s perspective on journalistic roles remains underexplored ( Riedl and Eberl, 2020 ). Generally, the examination of journalistic roles has been from a production perspective ( Hanusch 2019 ). We aim to address this ‘gap’ by examining journalism as a discursive institution ( Zelizer 1993 ), and focusing on audience-oriented roles, defined in the Worlds of Journalism-study as accommodative roles ( Hanitzsch et al. 2019 ). We surveyed a representative sample (N = 1577) of Flemish respondents about their news use, news attitudes, and their views on audience-oriented journalistic roles. Regression models were used to predict differences in how different subsets of news users view the importance of these journalistic roles. Our findings reveal that subsets of users have diverse expectations of what journalists should do, for instance, younger audiences expect journalists to act less as explainers than older audiences. Incorporating the audience’s views in the discussion of journalistic roles could be a useful approach to strengthen the audience-journalism relationship.
尽管新闻业的“受众转向”(Costera Meijer, 2020)在研究中得到了广泛的讨论，记者也承认有必要改善他们与受众的关系(Nelson and Lewis 2022)，但受众对新闻角色的看法仍未得到充分探讨(Riedl and Eberl, 2020)。一般来说，对新闻角色的审查是从生产角度出发的(Hanusch 2019)。我们的目标是通过将新闻作为一个话语机构(Zelizer 1993)进行研究，并专注于以受众为导向的角色，从而解决这一“差距”，这些角色在新闻研究的世界中被定义为适应性角色(Hanitzsch et al. 2019)。我们调查了佛兰德受访者的代表性样本(N = 1577)，了解他们的新闻使用、新闻态度以及他们对以受众为导向的新闻角色的看法。回归模型被用来预测不同子集的新闻用户如何看待这些新闻角色的重要性的差异。我们的研究结果表明，用户的子集对记者应该做什么有不同的期望，例如，年轻的受众期望记者比年长的受众更少地充当解释者。在新闻角色的讨论中纳入受众的观点可能是加强受众与新闻关系的有用方法。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-06DOI: 10.1177/14648849231170489
Sarah Lonsdale
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1177/14648849231166752
Amira Bejerano, Clila Magen
This study examines the role of listening methods within public diplomacy (PD)/foreign correspondents' relations. Listening theory plays a double role in the study: a) It serves as the theoretical basis for analyzing whether listening and, more specifically, feedback are applied by Israeli public diplomacy (PD) bodies; b) It serves as the core methodology of this study. We demonstrate the value of listening within the context of these professional relationships by applying a methodological simulation of listening. By systematically listening to both parties, one can uncover and trace gaps between the parties' perceptions and better understand their relationship. Based on fifty semi-structured, in-depth interviews with PD seniors and foreign correspondents, the study compares and contrasts the parties' perceptions regarding tactical and strategic aspects of Israeli PD organizations’ actions. The findings indicate a substantial lack of critical listening methods in Israel's PD mechanism. By applying systematic listening methods, gaps and weak links in the parties’ relationship surfaced. To address these gaps, we recommend implementing recurring feedback platforms. These might assist the parties in developing more authentic and open dialogue, despite disagreements and disputes.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-27DOI: 10.1177/14648849231166511
N. Lee, Ahran Park
This study examined the effects of online harassment on journalists’ psychological trauma and their intention to leave work. It also investigated whether journalists’ psychological trauma mediates the effects of online harassment on their intention to leave the profession and whether gender makes a difference in that relationship. An online survey of 404 South Korean journalists provided three categories of online harassment that journalists experience: (1) aggressive and abusive expression, (2) disclosure of private information, and (3) cyberstalking and hacking. The findings of this study show that aggressive and abusive expression was the most frequent type of online harassment whereas cyberstalking and hacking was the least frequent. As expected, online harassment was found to be positively associated with journalists’ psychological trauma (PTSD symptoms) and intention to leave work. The results further indicate that journalists’ psychological trauma originating from online harassment frequently resulted in an intention to leave work. Interestingly, journalists’ psychological trauma was a significant mediator in the relationship between psychological trauma levels and intention to leave work for female journalists, but not for male journalists.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-26DOI: 10.1177/14648849231167786
Minna Koivula, T. Saari, Mikko Villi
In contemporary working life, journalists are often faced with the pressures of an increasingly precarious field where employment is less stable and more contractual than in previous years. Consequently, learning as a skill has grown in importance as journalists enter and leave the job market. Previous research has often portrayed professional journalists as unwilling to learn due to the persistence of the institution of journalism. Consequently, this study examines learning in professional journalism through interviews with 30 Finnish journalists. We adopt the institutional logics perspective to examine which institutional logics manifest in journalists' descriptions of learning and how. We identify a labor market logic that highlights how the need to learn continuously to satisfy employer needs is felt as pervasive. Additionally, our analysis suggests that journalists negotiate the technology logic’s push for learning digital skills with journalism’s professional logic. The analysis also highlights a negotiation of market and professional logics in the journalists' experiences of intensification in relation to learning. Intensification, specifically, may have consequences for journalists' skill levels and occupational well-being.
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