Perceived Health Reporting Knowledge and News Gathering Practices of Health Journalists and Editors at Community Newspapers

Shoenberger, Heather; Rodgers, Shelly

doi:10.1080/10810730.2016.1266715

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“…Whereas, the studies found from non-Western states focus on 'individual social or political issues such as corruption in India (Rodrigues, 2014). With this increase in terms of popularity (Saldaña et al, 2017), social media has become a powerful tool for journalists and news organisations ranging from health journalism (Shoenberger, Rodgers, 2017) to sports journalism (Li et al, 2017), including emergency journalism (Bowdon, 2014) and political journalism (Parmelee, 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

Use of Facebook Information for News Production by Journalists in Pakistan

Umrani¹,

Memon²,

Khuhro³

2019

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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Nowadays, social media is considered one of the vastly used media not only by the public but also by professionals of all fields. Like other professionals, the journalists also use social media for dissemination of their stories with the public and also gathering information for story development through social media. Facebook is one of the popular social media networks among journalists to gather information for the stories. The purpose of this study is to determine and examine the patterns of use of Facebook information news production by Pakistani journalists. The data was collected by applying a survey method from Pakistani journalists through purposive sampling technique. The findings showed that the majority of surveyed urban journalists in this study used information sought from facebook for journalistic professions; mainly, they make the highest use of facebook information for getting themselves updated, writing follow-up stories, and then quoting facebook as source respectively.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Use of Facebook Information for News Production by Journalists in Pakistan

Umrani¹,

Memon²,

Khuhro³

2019

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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“…They also discovered government websites and nonprofit websites are useful for providing background information (Viswanath et al, 2008). Shoenberger and Rodgers (2017) also conducted surveys of over 250 health and science journalists and editors from community newspapers in the state of Missouri and found government and nonprofit websites are reliable information resources at the initial stage of reporting. Health and science journalists value websites that are convenient to access for their ability to save time when working under tight deadlines (Shoenberger and Rodgers, 2017; Viswanath et al, 2008).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Shoenberger and Rodgers (2017) also conducted surveys of over 250 health and science journalists and editors from community newspapers in the state of Missouri and found government and nonprofit websites are reliable information resources at the initial stage of reporting. Health and science journalists value websites that are convenient to access for their ability to save time when working under tight deadlines (Shoenberger and Rodgers, 2017; Viswanath et al, 2008). The Internet is heavily used by science journalists, with the top activities being researching articles and reference materials and reading publications (Grando, 2011).…”

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confidence: 99%

Information seeking behaviors of environmental journalists

Gilbert

White

Tallman

2021

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Journalists and librarians share a common goal of providing information to the public, yet very little is known about how journalists’ information seeking behavior intersects with libraries. This case study seeks to understand the information seeking behavior of environmental journalists by investigating how their information needs intersect with the library and how their information seeking behavior changed over the course of their 9-month fellowship at the University of Colorado Boulder. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with seven environmental journalists at the beginning and end of their fellowship, while an open coding approach was used to identify themes. Generally, study participants conducted research by (1) identifying a story idea and conducting a preliminary search, (2) expanding their knowledge on the topic through scientific articles and interviews with experts, (3) conducting field research, and (4) completing research when information is redundant and they are confident with their knowledge. This process, and their growing feelings of confidence as they conducted research, were similar to, but not exactly, Kuhlthau’s Information Search Process model. Their interactions with the library were mostly limited to accessing books and articles. Overall, there was little change in the participants’ information seeking behavior, possibly due to limited time to learn new resources, reliance on preexisting research habits, professional competence, and lack of awareness of library services (e.g. librarians, workshops, and public academic library access). An understanding of journalists’ information seeking behavior can help librarians conduct instruction and outreach efforts that address journalists’ information needs.

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“…With this increase in terms of popularity [30], social media has become a powerful tool for journalists and news organisations ranging from health journalism [31] to sports journalism [32], including emergency journalism [33] and political journalism [34]. Social media in the context of journalism is being mainly used in the following three ways: (i) as a venue to freely post news stories to reach out to potential new readers and increase the number of visitors on their websites, cf.…”

Section: Social Media For Journalistsmentioning

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Mining social media for newsgathering: A review

Zubiaga

2019

Online Social Networks and Media

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Social media is becoming an increasingly important data source for learning about breaking news and for following the latest developments of ongoing news. This is in part possible thanks to the existence of mobile devices, which allows anyone with access to the Internet to post updates from anywhere, leading in turn to a growing presence of citizen journalism. Consequently, social media has become a go-to resource for journalists during the process of newsgathering. Use of social media for newsgathering is however challenging, and suitable tools are needed in order to facilitate access to useful information for reporting. In this paper, we provide an overview of research in data mining and natural language processing for mining social media for newsgathering. We discuss five different areas that researchers have worked on to mitigate the challenges inherent to social media newsgathering: news discovery, curation of news, validation and verification of content, newsgathering dashboards, and other tasks. We outline the progress made so far in the field, summarise the current challenges as well as discuss future directions in the use of computational journalism to assist with social media newsgathering. This review is relevant to computer scientists researching news in social media as well as for interdisciplinary researchers interested in the intersection of computer science and journalism.

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Perceived Health Reporting Knowledge and News Gathering Practices of Health Journalists and Editors at Community Newspapers

Cited by 8 publications

References 60 publications

Use of Facebook Information for News Production by Journalists in Pakistan

Use of Facebook Information for News Production by Journalists in Pakistan

Information seeking behaviors of environmental journalists

Mining social media for newsgathering: A review

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