Designing Engagement in Local News: Using FOIA Requests to Create Inclusive Participatory Journalism Practices

Mihailidis, Paul; Gamwell, Adam

doi:10.1080/17512786.2020.1819381

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“…This can in time decrease media pluralism by weakening the diversity of information production. According to Mihailidis and Gamwell (2020), both distribution and interpretation of news stories in personal networks were hence highly dynamic and also depending on individuals, personal connections and various external elements. Just rarely did participants of different social networks engage in informative interaction, commonly through some connecting node such as a messenger or a tourist who spread the information from one town to the various other.…”

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Challenges and Opportunities for Main Stream Media and Journalism in a Digital and Social Media Environment: Perspective from Israel

Grossman¹

2022

JOMC

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Legacy media like broadcasters and especially newspapers by contrast are becoming relatively less important as distributors of news even as they remain very important producers of news. They are also under growing pressure to develop new digital business models as their existing sources of revenue decline or stagnate. The general response from legacy media has been a combination of investment in pursuing digital opportunities, cost–cutting and attempts at market consolidation in pursuit of market power and economies of scale. A methodological strategy for systematically analyzing citizen participation opportunities in the media is then proposed and applied. Because of the competition for attention and advertising, and the limited number of people who pay for online news, there are very few examples of legacy media that make a profit from their digital news operations despite twenty years of often substantial investments and sometimes significant audience reach. It is not clear that the new environment is significantly more hospitable for digital-born news media organizations. While they often have a lower cost base and can be more nimble in adapting to change, they face similar competition for both attention and advertising and so far represent a small part of overall investment in journalism. The study established that the consequences for informational diversity and media pluralism, key to freedom of expression are mixed. An increasingly digital media environment gives internet users access to more and more information from more and more sources, increasing the opportunities people have to use diverse sources and encounter different perspectives. The study concludes that the single biggest challenge facing journalism today in Israel is the public’s lack of trust in it. This is not a new challenge, but it is persistent, and it has been getting worse in the Country. Keywords: Challenges, Opportunities, Main stream media, Journalism, Digital, social media environment.

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Challenges and Opportunities for Main Stream Media and Journalism in a Digital and Social Media Environment: Perspective from Israel

Grossman¹

2022

JOMC

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“…According to Mihailidis and Gamwell (2020), both distribution and interpretation of news stories in personal networks were thus highly dynamic and dependent on individuals, personal relationships and various external factors. Only rarely did members of different social networks engage in informational interaction, typically through some connecting node such as a messenger or a traveler who spread the news from one village to the other.…”

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confidence: 99%

Determinants of Participatory Journalism and Communication for Development of the Contemporary Press: Perspective from the United States of America

Smith

2021

JOMC

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Recent years have seen a dramatic change in the relationship between online media and the audience, and user generated content is a common feature of news websites in the United States of America. Control over the contents of the media space, once held by traditional news outlets, today is shared by bloggers and other social media participants. Participatory journalism' has been anticipated as a form of journalism in which the audience no longer 'merely' receives news, but, enabled by digital technologies, is involved in its production and dissemination. First, participatory journalism and communication is considered in the context of the historical evolution of public communication. A methodological strategy for systematically analyzing citizen participation opportunities in the media is then proposed and applied. A sample of 16 online newspapers offers preliminary data that suggest news organizations are interpreting online user participation mainly as an opportunity for their readers to debate current events, while other stages of the news production process are closed to citizen involvement or controlled by professional journalists when participation is allowed. However, different strategies exist among the studied sample, and contextual factors should be considered in further research. Because of such pressing factors participatory journalism and communication is marginalized and genuine participation is the missing link in the development of the press process. To avert such trends, the paper calls for professionalism for the development of the press communication, structural change of the organization and holistic approach of development of the press for successful development of the press endeavors.

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Global Media Ethics and the Covid-19 Pandemic

Bonfiglioli

2021

Handbook of Global Media Ethics

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This chapter presents an exploration of ethical issues arising in the news media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. This chapter is about key ethical challenges faced by journalists and the evolution of guidance provided for journalists beyond the scope of current codes of journalism ethics. The chapter discusses these issues through the life cycle of the news media drawing on ethics resources as needed. It argues for clearer guidance for journalists reporting health, reviews of journalists' codes of ethics to embed specific values and advice for covering health news, and enhanced employer support for staff and freelance journalists.

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Designing Engagement in Local News: Using FOIA Requests to Create Inclusive Participatory Journalism Practices

Cited by 3 publications

References 38 publications

Challenges and Opportunities for Main Stream Media and Journalism in a Digital and Social Media Environment: Perspective from Israel

Challenges and Opportunities for Main Stream Media and Journalism in a Digital and Social Media Environment: Perspective from Israel

Determinants of Participatory Journalism and Communication for Development of the Contemporary Press: Perspective from the United States of America

Global Media Ethics and the Covid-19 Pandemic

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