Newsrooms and Transparency in the Digital Age

Chadha, Kalyani; Koliska, Michael

doi:10.1080/17512786.2014.924737

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“…Rather, it could be related to the perceived upholding of these norms (as indicated by results from Coleman, Morrison, and Anthony 2012) or, feasibly, factors other than journalistic performance per se that are the causes of the decline. This also points towards a limited effect of an alleged increase, or halted decline, in credibility by shifting journalistic ideals to a more transparent way of doing journalism, as some research suggests (BLINDED; Plaisance 2007;Chadha and Koliska 2015;Vos and Craft 2017). In short, if traditional journalistic norms (or doxa) are not the problem, then changing them doesn't seem like an adequate, or full, solution.…”

Section: Embracing the Doxa And Evaluating Journalists Accordinglymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When that happens, journalism needs to discursively renegotiate its role orientations, performances and relationships with the public and other actors (Hanitzsch and Vos 2017). Some observers suggest that changing to a more transparent way of doing news could possibly counter the trend and, instead, be a remedy to restore and even increase the trust and credibility of journalism (Karlsson 2010;Plaisance 2007;Vos and Craft 2017;Chadha and Koliska 2015). However, in most discussions about the viability of different journalistic role orientations and performances (although see Coleman, Morrison, and Anthony 2012 for a notable exception), a crucial part of the puzzle is regularly overlooked the views of the public and how they understand and evaluate journalism.…”

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Cornerstones in Journalism

Karlsson

Clerwall

2018

Journalism Studies

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Journalism's appeal to the public is in decline and the causes and remedies for this are debated in society and academia. One dimension that has garnered attention is that of journalistic norms and how they are performed; it has been proposed that a journalism based on a different, more transparent, normative base can better connect with citizens, compared with the current prevailing norm of journalistic objectivity. However, the opinions of citizens themselves have been remarkably absent and, in order to inform the debate, this study inductively investigates how citizens view and relate to the notion of good journalism. Drawing upon a theoretical framework of Bourdieu's concept of doxa, journalistic role performance, and social contract theory, this study is based on the results of 13 focus groups. The findings suggest that the respondents' views about good journalism are quite in accordance with the traditional norms of the journalistic field; however, there is more emphasis on stylistic and linguistic qualities. Few calls are made for transparency. The results suggest that a remedy to the decreasing trust in news may not lay in the changing of norms, but rather in how already established norms and values of the journalistic field are performed.

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Section: Embracing the Doxa And Evaluating Journalists Accordinglymentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Cornerstones in Journalism

Karlsson

Clerwall

2018

Journalism Studies

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“…As Karlsson (2011) points out, journalistic processes that were once hidden from the audiences become visible in online media, as "user participation and immediacy have altered the digital frontstage area, not only in theory but also in practice" (p. 291). In social media, these processes have become even more visible, as social media brings possibilities for more-and new aspects of-transparency (Chadha & Koliska, 2014;Meier & Reimer, 2011).…”

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When Journalists Tweet: Disclosure, Participatory, and Personal Transparency

Hedman

2016

Social Media + Society

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This article analyses transparency among groups of journalists by examining journalists' tweets. It also answers a call from previous researchers on transparency on Twitter for further studies based on more representative samples of journalists.The study draws on a quantitative content analysis of Swedish journalists' tweets during 1 week in spring 2014. The total number of tweets analyzed (N) is 1,500. A total of 24% of the journalists' tweets can be described as being explicitly transparent. However, the findings indicate that while journalists on Twitter indeed discuss how the news are produced (disclosure transparency), they show less personal transparency, and hardly ever invite the audiences to interact or take part in the process of making news (participatory transparency).

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“…For example, Hermida (2010) introduces the concept of "ambient journalism" to capture the ways in which the digital environment is transforming journalism into an "awareness system" aimed at facilitating and regulating the flow of information. Other studies show that the transparency associated with collective intelligence is most often a product of the correction of factual errors, and that the more substantive aspects of news production remain beyond the audience's purview (Chadha and Koliska 2015). According to Singer (2014), the most common roles taken on by these secondary gatekeepers involve assessing the value of the news content and selectively redisseminating parts of it.…”

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Social Media’s Challenge to Journalistic Norms and Values during a Terror Attack

Konow-Lund

Olsson

2016

Digital Journalism

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Over the past decade, the frequency of terror attacks around the world has increased. In the context of the 22 July 2011 terror attacks in Norway, social media use by citizens, and even victims, became an essential feature of reporting. Social media confronted the legacy media's way of covering crisis events. It raised questions about traditional journalism's ability to handle audience's as, not only news consumers, but also producers. In the present article, we look at the ways in which the professional norms and values of traditional journalism are specifically challenged by social media use in times of terror, using the 22 July 2011 attacks as a case study. We find that Norwegian journalists initially held to their professional roles, and to the classic self-representational principles of journalism, including objectivity, autonomy and imme-diacy. When they integrated social media into their traditional platforms and modes of coverage , they framed it as a "source" of sorts. As the 22 July 2011 event coverage became more focused on the collective grief felt by the nation, in turn, the traditional journalistic principles of objectivity and autonomy became less relevant, enabling yet more audience participation and social media use in relation to the attack.

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Newsrooms and Transparency in the Digital Age

Cited by 61 publications

References 18 publications

Cornerstones in Journalism

Cornerstones in Journalism

When Journalists Tweet: Disclosure, Participatory, and Personal Transparency

Social Media’s Challenge to Journalistic Norms and Values during a Terror Attack

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