Churnalism on the Rise?

Saridou, Theodora; Spyridou, Lia‐Paschalia; Veglis, Andreas

doi:10.1080/21670811.2017.1342209

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“…It is worth noting that this study also has certain limitations that have to do with the fact that it is based on data from a specific time period (mid-summer to mid-autumn) and during the COVID-19 pandemic, which may have in some cases disrupted the normal publishing rhythm of the media organizations. Additionally, the study only counts the number of published articles, and in many cases, that number does not reflect new content but recycled existing content, a phenomenon that is known as churnalism (Saridou et al 2017). One other parameter that needs to be considered is that the number of news articles published is dependent on the size and qualification of the staff in each media organization.…”

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Publishing Patterns in Greek Media Websites

2021

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The concept of different publishing patterns during a day has been employed for many decades in the broadcasting industry. These patterns are close related with dayparts, which are defined as sequential time blocks on comparable days during which the audience size is homogeneous, as is the group depiction using the specific medium. During the first decade of the World Wide Web, Internet media strategy was focused on total web reach, demographics and affinity of content without particular attention to how the nature of the audience changes by time of day. This paper studies the variation of publishing patterns of the top 22 Greek media websites. More than 550 thousand articles were indexed in a period of four and a half months. The study identified distinct WWW time periods that exhibit specific publishing characteristics. Specifically, different categories of news articles present different publishing patterns during weekdays and weekends. The results appear to be in agreement with findings of previous studies.

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“…Work processes in traditional newsrooms are held in check by conservative attitudes from journalists, and Ekdale et al (2015) report that those who believe their jobs are at risk are unlikely to change their practices. Moreover, Witschge and Nygren (2009) reveal that multi-skilled journalists have more control over more stages of their work than ever before, and can introduce new forms of creativity in the production process, even if the demands in daily production are often so high that journalists can seldom develop this creativity (Saridou et al, 2017).…”

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Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity

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This paper presents work surrounding INJECT, a newsroom innovation offering digital tools to support journalists. Research showing increasing time and resource pressure on journalists has led to concerns about the demise of investigative reporting and the ability of today’s journalists to interrogate information adequately. Some digital innovations (e.g. tools facilitating robot journalism) have been viewed with suspicion by newsrooms. This paper reports on a research project that seeks to create an innovative tool to support the creative capabilities of time and resource poor journalists. The INJECT project used the advanced information discovery capabilities of digitisation to help journalists find new angles on stories and this paper analyses the extent to which such initiatives might harness digital innovation to benefit both the quality and range of reporting and thereby enhance creativity. It examines the potential of an information processing model of creativity derived from the INJECT tool to assist and support journalists, exploring the theoretical impact as well as the practical implications reported from the newsroom.

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“…The current economic, political and social crisis in Greece and Cyprus has resulted in a dramatic loss of advertising revenue and other subsidies, while massive layoffs and precarious labour became the norm. At the same time, credibility and trust levels for the traditional media collapsed (80 percent for television, 65 per cent for newspapers, rendering online news media brands the most trusted and read outlets (Saridou., et al 2017) Undoubtedly, younger people seem to have a different way to consume news. Though, consuming news stories is not their only interest.…”

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Online Journalism: Crowdsourcing, and Media Websites in an Era of Participation

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Polykalas

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The era of journalism and the participation of the readers on online media websites have changed online journalism. The research interest is now focused on removing the distinction between the publisher/entrepreneur and the journalist/user, with the ultimate goal of actively involving citizens in the journalistic process but also in the web presence of media websites. The evolution of technology, the deep media crisis and the growing dissatisfaction of the citizens, create the conditions for journalism to work with citizens, and in particular through citizen journalism and journalism crowdsourcing. This concept is a form of collective online activity in which a person or a group of people volunteer to engage in work that always involves mutual benefit to both sides. The main research question of this research concerns the analysis of the current situation regarding crowdsourcing, co-creation and UGC and the adoption of best practices such as crowdcreation, comments from the users, crowdwisdom, instant-messaging applications (MIMs) and crowdvoting used by media websites around the world. Very few media have tried to apply even nowadays, the proposed model of journalism, which this study is going to research. The results of the study shape new perspectives and practices for online journalism and democracy.

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Churnalism on the Rise?

Cited by 36 publications

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Publishing Patterns in Greek Media Websites

Publishing Patterns in Greek Media Websites

Using computational tools to support journalists’ creativity

Online Journalism: Crowdsourcing, and Media Websites in an Era of Participation

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