What Is Digital Journalism? Defining the Practice and Role of the Digital Journalist

Perreault, Gregory; Ferrucci, Patrick

doi:10.1080/21670811.2020.1848442

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“…In the late 1990s, when the impact of emerging digital technologies on journalism started to become perceptible, experts greeted this process. They projected implications like broadening interactivity, customizability, multimediality, and the potential to build new communities with optimistic expectations (Perreault-Ferrucci, 2020). Also, this initial optimistic approach expected the broadening technological convergence to eliminate the factors restricting the news industry.…”

Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…A technology-based explanation cannot be valid because digital journalism "has been everybody's business in the sense that it is of interest to a range of social sciences, humanities and even sciences and technology disciplines" (Burgess-Hurcombe, 2019: 359), and not even the self-defi nition of journalists is based on this. According to Perreault and Ferrucci (2020), the attribute "digital" has essentially three meanings: "utilising technology to tell stories", "disseminating information in the quickest way possible", and focusing "on the audience in a market-driven manner" (Perreault-Ferrucci, 2020: 1305. However, there are divergences between digital and legacy journalism concerning the technological devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, digital voice and video recorders, drones, virtual reality), the communication channels (email, blogs, self-publishing tools), and the activities (data-driven digital storytelling, data visualization, digital video, and new digital ways of news gathering, interviewing, and documenting).…”

Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…However, there are divergences between digital and legacy journalism concerning the technological devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, digital voice and video recorders, drones, virtual reality), the communication channels (email, blogs, self-publishing tools), and the activities (data-driven digital storytelling, data visualization, digital video, and new digital ways of news gathering, interviewing, and documenting). Still, those concerned do not look at the application of new technologies as the main criteria of digital journalism (Perreault-Ferrucci, 2020). They consider technology instead as a simple, trivial resource of professional work.…”

Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…News production is getting closer to popular culture, but it is not the only implication of its interconnectedness with social media. The young audiences available on social media platforms, who are especially receptive to advertising, branding, and online marketing technologies, represent an increased value for digital journalism (Perreault-Ferrucci, 2020: 1307. Therefore, the news economy is also exposed to the effects of commercialization related to the spread of content marketing and participatory marketing (Nyírő-Csordás-Horváth, 2012) or the activities of social infl uencers, for instance.…”

Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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Public Service Media in the Age of Social Networks

Glózer

2021

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio

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Digital transformation and the expansion of social networks have essentially modified journalistic practice, facing challenges concerning its essential operation and boundaries. The traditional business models have collapsed, young people’s media consumption habits have changed, and more non-professional journalists participate in news production. Social media platforms have an immense effect on journalistic work, especially journalists’ professional and ethical standards. Perhaps traditional public service media are the ones that stand the farthest away from participatory practices and platform logic, characterizing today’s media environment. What are the public media services’ opportunities to fulfil their commitment of authentically and objectively informing citizens, including young people, about public affairs? This study aims to picture the boundary work of journalism currently underway by reviewing the phenomena emerging on the border of journalism and social media. Additionally, the study attempts to answer what a successful social media strategy looks like in public service media by presenting the social media activities of “tagesschau”, the newsmagazine of ARD, a German public-service channel.

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Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Journalism In the Age Of Social Mediamentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Public Service Media in the Age of Social Networks

Glózer

2021

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Communicatio

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“…Hutchins and Boyle (2017) suggest that journalists must consider the presentation of their work in order to avoid being obsolesced by the growing popularity of mobile devices in news consumption. Legacy media journalists have responded by adopting the practices and roles of digital journalism, normalizing them within the field (Perreault & Ferrucci, 2020). Indeed, “there is no such thing as ‘digital journalism’ anymore to actors within the field; it is simply journalism” (Perreault & Ferrucci, 2020, p. 26).…”

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Towards a “Digital” Sports Journalism: Field Theory, Changing Boundaries and Evolving Technologies

Perreault

Bell

2020

Communication & Sport

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Long trivialized as the “toy department,” sports journalism nevertheless represents an enduring, and vital subfield within journalism. As with many niches of journalism, sports journalism has needed to adjust to changes resulting from the technology of the field. In particular, digital sports journalism faces pressure from adjacent fields, represented in team and player media, which perform many of the same tasks historically attributed to sports journalism. Through the lens of field theory, the present study reports on long-form interviews with 47 sports journalists who self-defined their work as digital journalism. This study argues that the perception of insurgents—team media that prior research demonstrated is often seen as a part of the field—has caused digital sports journalists to view their work as economically vital to the individual newsroom, but not topically essential to the journalistic field at large.

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