News in Motion: A Quantitative Analysis of Incremental News Updates by Flemish Online News Outlets

IF 2.2 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Journalism Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI:10.1080/17512786.2023.2262976

Yoram Timmerman, Sarah Van Leuven, Antoon Bronselaer

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Abstract

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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动态新闻:佛兰德在线新闻机构增量新闻更新的定量分析

在线新闻迅速在媒体领域占据了一席之地，随之而来的是将增量新闻更新整合到现有内容中的做法。然而，考虑到这种流动的新闻生产，研究人员一直在努力冻结新闻流并捕捉不同的文章版本，这意味着增量新闻更新形成了一个未被充分研究的现象。因此，我们通过应用定期间隔内容捕获对在线新闻更新的使用情况进行了大规模研究。使用内部开发的软件，收集了六家领先的佛兰德新闻媒体在两年内(2019-2021年)撰写的所有291,666篇文章和197,979篇相关更新。它检查了更新应用的普遍程度和方式。此外，还将手动分析11,293篇文章的子集，以检查应用更新的原因。结果表明，更新通常适用于所有新闻媒体和主题。35%的文章至少更新一次，一篇更新的文章平均更新1.94次。大约4.2%的文本修改是为了纠正客观或主观错误，通常没有与读者进行任何沟通。因此，我们认为应该提高新闻更新的透明度。

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Journalism Practice COMMUNICATION-

CiteScore

5.50

自引率

14.30%

发文量

111

期刊介绍： ournalism Practice provides opportunities for reflective, critical and research-based studies focused on the professional practice of journalism. The emphasis on journalism practice does not imply any false or intellectually disabling disconnect between theory and practice, but simply an assertion that Journalism Practice’s primary concern is to analyse and explore issues of practice and professional relevance. Journalism Practice is an intellectually rigorous journal with all contributions being refereed anonymously by acknowledged international experts in the field. An intellectually lively, but professionally experienced, Editorial Board with a wide-ranging experience of journalism practice advises and supports the Editor. Journalism Practice is devoted to: the study and analysis of significant issues arising from journalism as a field of professional practice; relevant developments in journalism training and education, as well as the construction of a reflective curriculum for journalism; analysis of journalism practice across the distinctive but converging media platforms of magazines, newspapers, online, radio and television; and the provision of a public space for practice-led, scholarly contributions from journalists as well as academics. Journalism Practice’s ambitious scope includes: the history of journalism practice; the professional practice of journalism; journalism training and education; journalism practice and new technology; journalism practice and ethics; and journalism practice and policy.