Public interest or self-interest? How journalism attracts future journalists

Andersson, Ulrika; Wadbring, Ingela

doi:10.1080/14682753.2015.1041805

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“…Social media editors accentuate those elements in a story that fulfill the news values of emotions, surprise, and social impact. This confirms the findings of Vu (2014) and Andersson and Wadbring (2015) that news values of social media editors are user engagement and algorithm driven.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

“…According to Scacco et al (2015), audience engagement and outreach have become part of journalists’ digital gatekeeping roles. This can be seen as an indicator for the greater user orientation of journalists as reported by Andersson and Wadbring (2015). Similarly, as younger and digital-native generations of journalists get into the profession, a digital divide among journalists may enhance such norm shifts (Gillis and Johnson, 2015; Hedman and Djerf-Pierre, 2013).…”

Section: Journalistic Standards and Social Media News Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Logics in social media news making: How social media editors marry the Facebook logic with journalistic standards

Lischka

2018

Journalism

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News decisions of social media editors shape the news supply on social media channels such as Facebook. This study assesses based on qualitative interviews and a quantitative survey of social media editors in two social-media-savvy European countries, Finland and Switzerland, how Facebook's News Feed algorithm, Facebook users, journalistic standards, and the news brand determine social media news making. Results show that social media editors evaluate the news factors emotions and surprise as more important for Facebook news than for online news. Social media editors accentuate emotional and surprising story elements in a post to comply with user preferences and the logic of the News Feed algorithm. Thus, news values and news editing have become more user engagement driven. Yet traditional journalistic standards and the news brand characteristics set boundaries to a heavy user engagement orientation. Social media editors estimate that their outlet's news supply on Facebook is higher for entertaining news and lower for foreign politics and economic news stories. But they strive for a "good mix" of news adhering to both the Facebook logic and professional journalistic standards.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 88%

Section: Journalistic Standards and Social Media News Makingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Logics in social media news making: How social media editors marry the Facebook logic with journalistic standards

Lischka

2018

Journalism

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“…In 2006, Kanigel described the campus newspaper as “a community forum where students, faculty, administrators and staff can debate issues of a common concern” as well as “a watchdog that barks” when “a cafeteria is cited for health code violations or athletes drive around with handicapped parking placards” (p. 5). Subsequent studies have found student journalists to be typically more engaged than students not involved in journalism, taking a keener interest in current events, and expressing more interest in a journalism that serves the public (Andersson & Wadbring, 2015; Bobkowski et al, 2012).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Social capital and conflict avoidance in campus news

Heath

Lowrey

2021

Newspaper Research Journal

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This study explores the roles student media advisers and editors perceive they serve within campus and municipal communities, focusing on the influence of social capital on tendencies toward an adversarial role and conflict reporting. Respondents identified least with the adversarial role, well below the interpretive role, which respondents identified with most strongly. Where social capital between newsroom and administration was stronger and where advisers were more experienced, inclinations toward conflict were weaker.

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“…In journalism, the assumption is that journalists have particular commitments or ‘loyalties’ to their readers in terms of providing fair and balanced information about the world around them (Kovach and Rosenstiel, 2001). Recent studies suggest that commercial pressures and incentives may be competing with traditional journalistic values in how journalists conceptualize their responsibilities to the reading public (Andersson and Wadbring, 2015; Christin, 2016; Hellman and Jaakkola, 2012). This is exacerbated by the increasing competitiveness of the journalistic field and the growth of new media, such as Twitter and blogs, and their incumbent emphasis on individual brands (Ottovordemgentschenfelde, 2016), suggesting that questions of how to balance self-interest and public interest are likely to become increasingly salient for new generations of journalists.…”

Section: The Multiple Modes Of Subjectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Valuing subjectivity in journalism: Bias, emotions, and self-interest as tools in arts reporting

Chong

2017

Journalism

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This article examines the meanings and norms surrounding subjectivity across traditional and new forms of cultural journalism. While the ideal of objectivity is key to American journalism and its development as a profession, recent scholarship and new media developments have challenged the dominance of objectivity as a professional norm. This article begins with the understanding that subjectivity is an intractable part of knowing (and reporting on) the world around us to build our understanding of different modes of subjectivity and how these animate journalistic practices. Taking arts reporting, specifically reviewing, as a case study, the analysis draws on interviews with 40 book reviewers who write for major American newspapers, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and prominent blogs. Findings reveal how emotions, bias, and self-interest are salient -sometimes as vice and sometimes as virtue -across the workflow of critics writing for traditional print outlets and book blogs and that these differences can be conceptualized as different epistemic styles.

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Public interest or self-interest? How journalism attracts future journalists

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Logics in social media news making: How social media editors marry the Facebook logic with journalistic standards

Logics in social media news making: How social media editors marry the Facebook logic with journalistic standards

Social capital and conflict avoidance in campus news

Valuing subjectivity in journalism: Bias, emotions, and self-interest as tools in arts reporting

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