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Knowledge can wait? The epistemic conversion of new beat reporters 知识可以等待？新记者的认识论转换

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Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-17 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241284005

Tal Mishaly, Zvi Reich

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Behind the black box: The moderating role of the machine heuristic on the effect of transparency information about automated journalism on hostile media bias perception 黑箱背后机器启发式对自动化新闻报道透明度信息对敌意媒体偏见认知影响的调节作用

IF 2.9 2区文学

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241284575

Rui Wang, Yotam Ophir

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Citizen journalism revisited: A case study of Kenya’s kibera news network 公民新闻重新审视：肯尼亚基贝拉新闻网案例研究

IF 2.9 2区文学

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241279011

Meghan Sobel Cohen, Job Mwaura, Karen McIntyre

{"title":"Citizen journalism revisited: A case study of Kenya’s kibera news network","authors":"Meghan Sobel Cohen, Job Mwaura, Karen McIntyre","doi":"10.1177/14648849241279011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241279011","url":null,"abstract":"In an evolving media landscape, the prominence and influence of citizen journalism has grown markedly, challenging historical norms and providing alternative narratives. While traditional journalism has been guided by objectivity, autonomy, and ethics, its representation has been questioned, especially in marginalised communities like Kibera, a neighbourhood in Nairobi, Kenya. Scholars have shed light on the transformational role of journalism and the ensuing need for democratisation in its practice, acknowledging the challenge it faces in representing diverse sections of the population. Using Kibera News Network (KNN) as a case study, this mixed methods study looks at the extent to which citizen journalists, despite lacking formal training, uphold and perhaps even redefine traditional journalistic principles. Utilising a qualitative content analysis of KNN videos and in-depth interviews with citizen journalists in Kibera, findings suggest that these citizen journalists exhibit a solid commitment to ethical reporting, emphasising accuracy and fairness, perhaps due to these journalists being citizens in their community—a community that has been marginalised and misrepresented—and thus experience a heightened sense of belonging. KNN citizen journalists also demonstrate high levels of autonomy and journalism ethics and are unburdened by the political and financial pressures that shape some mainstream media narratives. Taken together, findings suggest that the citizen journalist work of KNN contributes to multiple civic outcomes, including neighbourhood belonging and collective efficacy, which leads to civic participation.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142249881","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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(De)politicization of the environmental agenda in Russian media (俄罗斯媒体环境议程的（非）政治化

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Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-14 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241284338

Olga Dovbysh, Mika Perkiömäki

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Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK 媒体平台为何要维护公正的界限？英国电视新闻与事实核查的比较分析

IF 2.9 2区文学

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-08 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241273599

Marina Morani, Ceri Hughes, Stephen Cushion, Maria Kyriakidou

{"title":"Why media platforms police the boundaries of impartiality: A comparative analysis of television news and fact-checking in the UK","authors":"Marina Morani, Ceri Hughes, Stephen Cushion, Maria Kyriakidou","doi":"10.1177/14648849241273599","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241273599","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores whether different media platforms across impartial news media supplied the same level of scrutiny in how they fact-checked political claims. While prior research has largely focused on independent fact-checking organisations, the fact-checking practices of legacy media through a cross-platform perspective have comparatively received limited attention. The study develops new lines of inquiry into the fact-checking practices of legacy media, presenting one of the largest and most forensic cross-platform studies of fact-checking to date. It draws on a systematic content analysis of 355 items from fact-checking sites, including 689 claims and 1850 instances where journalists or sources interacted with them in 2021, and assesses how they were covered by a further 280 television news items. Our findings demonstrate that the selection and degree to which journalists and sources scrutinised political claims varied across media platforms, with television news less inclined to report and analyse policy claims than dedicated fact-checking websites. Overall, we argue that the editorial boundaries of fact-checking are policed by journalists’ interpretations of impartiality, which differ across platforms (in television news or dedicated fact-checking websites) due to a range of editorial factors such as production constraints and news values.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184791","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Intermediaries of change: How media-focused non-governmental organizations shape meta-journalistic discourse in Ukraine 变革的中介：以媒体为重点的非政府组织如何塑造乌克兰的元新闻话语

IF 2.9 2区文学

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-07 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241281179

Oleksandra Hrybenko

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The diffusion of immersive journalism as media innovation from media professionals’ perspectives 从媒体专业人员的角度看身临其境新闻作为媒体创新的传播

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Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-05 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241282510

Kaixin Cheng, Marc Verboord

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Ethnic journalism, audiences and community development: An analysis of audience perceptions of fafaa FM’s journalistic activities 民族新闻、受众和社区发展：分析受众对 fafaa 调频台新闻活动的看法

IF 2.9 2区文学

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-04 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241278287

Ufuoma Akpojivi, Modestus Fosu

{"title":"Ethnic journalism, audiences and community development: An analysis of audience perceptions of fafaa FM’s journalistic activities","authors":"Ufuoma Akpojivi, Modestus Fosu","doi":"10.1177/14648849241278287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241278287","url":null,"abstract":"This study broaches a conversation on ethnic media and journalism in Ghana by asking whether Fafaa Radio, a private commercial FM station in Dzodze, practices ethnic journalism based on audience perception of the station's functions and responsibilities. Using mixed methods of survey distributed to 500 participants, in-depth interviews with four purposively selected media practitioners of the station, and document analysis, the study addresses issues relating to Fafaa as an ethnic media outlet. The study occurs within an interpretative analytical approach underpinned by sociological imagination and normative considerations about professionalism in local and national contexts. The findings suggest that Fafaa FM’s audiences believe that the station is an ethnic media organisation because it fulfils the characteristics and tenets of ethnic media. This is evident in the station’s intervention journalism, which seeks to promote the cultural values and interests of its host communities and the station’s revolutionary bottom-up approach to news production. However, Fafaa FM’s ethnic media tendencies raise serious regulatory and conceptualisation issues as the regulatory bodies in Ghana, the National Communication Authority (NCA) and National Media Commission (NMC), do not recognise ethnic media in their classification of types of radio, thereby posing an identity crisis for Fafaa FM.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142184806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Local news as political institution and the repercussions of ‘news deserts’: A qualitative study of seven UK local areas 作为政治机构的地方新闻与 "新闻沙漠 "的影响：对英国七个地方的定性研究

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Journalism Pub Date : 2024-09-01 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241272255

Steven Barclay, Steven Barnett, Martin Moore, Judith Townend

{"title":"Local news as political institution and the repercussions of ‘news deserts’: A qualitative study of seven UK local areas","authors":"Steven Barclay, Steven Barnett, Martin Moore, Judith Townend","doi":"10.1177/14648849241272255","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241272255","url":null,"abstract":"A transformation in the political economy of local news provision has led to claims that an increasing number of local areas have become ‘news deserts’ – areas that are poorly served or not served at all by professional and dedicated news services (Abernathy, 2022). Such developments have raised widespread concerns about the future health of local democracy. One aspect of local news’ declining capacity that has received little attention to date is the impact on its role as political institution. This paper first examines the impact of changes on those most closely affected by the reduction or closure of UK local news media outlets – the consumers and sources of local news. Through empirical research in 2021-22, the authors explore Cook’s theory of the news media as political institution (2005), by examining local citizens’ experience of – and attitudes towards – their local news outlets, and the extent to which they believe these continue to perform an institutional role. Second, the paper seeks to explore the extent to which other information services – most notably social media and online communities - substitute for the institutional roles of local news outlets. The paper argues that the diminishing role of local news media as political institution has significant political and democratic implications which are not being addressed by policymakers, who are more concerned with the economic interests of corporate media owners than the broader democratic and societal interests of local communities.","PeriodicalId":51432,"journal":{"name":"Journalism","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142224118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The cultural capital you need to work with automated news: Not only “your beautiful piece of work”, but also “patterns that emerge” 自动新闻工作所需的文化资本：不仅是 "您的精美作品"，还有 "出现的模式"

IF 2.9 2区文学

Journalism Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1177/14648849241279579

Samuel Danzon-Chambaud, Alessio Cornia

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