Media Accountability Systems

Bertrand, Claude-Jean

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“…), and cooperative (e.g., letters to editor, ombudsmen, etc.) to avoid or investigate malpractices by newsroom members (Bertrand, 2000). However, these mechanisms seem to have exerted limited influence on journalists' daily practices (Fengler, 2003;Fengler et al, 2015;Newton et al, 2004).…”

Section: Transparency and Accountability In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chillin’ Effects of Fake News: Changes in Practices Related to Accountability and Transparency in American Newsrooms Under the Influence of Misinformation and Accusations Against the News Media

Saldaña

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This study examines how newsroom work in the United States has changed in response to some of the latest developments in the news media environment. Using nationally representative survey data, we explore what professional routines American journalists have adopted to avoid spreading or being accused of publishing misinformation. Findings suggest that journalists have added new or intensified practices to increase accountability and transparency. In addition, role conceptions, perception of fake news, and responsibility for social media audiences impact the adoption of such practices. Journalists are more likely to embrace transparency than accountability, suggesting the emergence of new journalistic norms in today’s newsrooms.

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Section: Transparency and Accountability In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Chillin’ Effects of Fake News: Changes in Practices Related to Accountability and Transparency in American Newsrooms Under the Influence of Misinformation and Accusations Against the News Media

Saldaña

2021

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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“…After a difficult start, ombudsmen now feel their colleagues in the newsroom have accepted them. Bertrand (1997), McQuail (2003 and Evers (2003) described the ombudsman as a press accountability mechanism. The tasks and role perceptions mentioned by the participants in our study partly support this view.…”

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“…According to Bertrand (1997), the introduction of an ombudsman makes the newspaper more accountable to its readers. It is an example of self-regulation, not imposed by government (McQuail, 2003: 285).…”

Section: Responsibility and Accountabilitymentioning

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Readers’ Advocates or Newspapers’ Ambassadors?

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Deuze

2006

European Journal of Communication

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At the beginning of the 21st century, politicians, scholars and journalists want news media to be more accountable and transparent. The newspaper ombudsman is often considered an example of an accountability mechanism. Similarly to Japan, the US and elsewhere, newspapers in the Netherlands have introduced this function in the newsroom. A questionnaire and open-ended interviews with Dutch ombudsmen showed two different views of the function: on the one hand, they see themselves as the ‘readers’ advocate’, whose loyalty lies with the reader; on the other hand, they are the ‘paper’s ambassador’, who defends the paper’s interests. The ombudsman can be seen as an accountability mechanism, or as a way to strengthen the newspaper’s relationship with its readers.

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“…Claude-Jean Bertrand Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 289 mentioned that traditionally there are two ways to assure professionalism: legislation or market, both of which are tough route for journalism in Bulgaria. [14] Then comes the third road for Bulgaria media -selfregulation. By means of media accountability, media owners, practitioners and audience are actively mobilized to effectively promote journalistic professionalism.…”

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Media Self-regulation in Bulgaria

Chen¹

2018

Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Education, Language, Art and Inter-Cultural Communication (ICELAIC 2018)

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This paper explores the milieu of the establishment of media self-regulatory system in Bulgaria. As one of the former Soviet satellite states, Bulgaria has been in the transformational period since 1989, with its political system from centralized one-party one to a democratic electoral one. So did the changes take place in the economic environment in which Bulgarian media operates. It is concluded that the fierce competition media market and the requirements exerted by European Union that bring about the adoption of Ethical Code of the Bulgarian Media and establishment of National Council for Journalism Ethics in Bulgaria. Hence, the Bulgaria media self-regulatory system is established as the internal and external demands. This paper aims at describing the process of the formation of the system in order to provide references for future studies on media self-regulation in transitional country.

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Media Accountability Systems

Cited by 11 publications

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Chillin’ Effects of Fake News: Changes in Practices Related to Accountability and Transparency in American Newsrooms Under the Influence of Misinformation and Accusations Against the News Media

Chillin’ Effects of Fake News: Changes in Practices Related to Accountability and Transparency in American Newsrooms Under the Influence of Misinformation and Accusations Against the News Media

Readers’ Advocates or Newspapers’ Ambassadors?

Media Self-regulation in Bulgaria

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