News

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
José van
Keyword(s):  
Big Five ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Public Values ◽  
Social Foundations ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
News Industry

This chapter examines how the advent of data-driven publishers, such as BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, as well as the rise of the Big Five platforms, have shaken the news sector’s economic, technical, and social foundations. The proliferation of online audience metrics and algorithmic filtering, promoting the personalization of news and advertisements, has fundamentally transformed how news is produced, circulated, and monetized. The triangular content–audiences–advertising configuration that constituted the legacy news industry is unbundled and rebundled through online platforms. As a consequence, the professional practices and institutional standards once set by legacy news organizations are seriously challenged. Key public values, such as journalistic independence and the trustworthiness of news, have come under scrutiny as new online players in this sector reconfigure the conditions of production and distribution.

Web 2.0 and News 2.0

2015 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Kyle Gibson ◽  
Greg Gomer
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Distribution Models ◽  
Web Usage ◽  
News Source ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
News Industry

This chapter examines the effects that Web 2.0 technologies have had on traditional news organizations and how those organizations have been forced to adapt their content style, speed of production, and distribution models. It specifically focuses on real-time analytics and how news organizations can utilize new opportunities presented by social media platforms and web usage mining to analyze their audience, the competition, and popular opinions. The chapter will explain in detail how a news organization can compile data from social media and web usage, gain insights from that data, and act upon those insights. To further examine real-time analytics, the chapter presents real examples from BostInno, an online news source, where real-time analytics affected content and distribution. To conclude, the authors will reflect on the impact real-time analytics has on the news industry and how it might affect it in the near future.

New Models of Knowledge-Based Journalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew C. Nisbet ◽  
Declan Fahy
Keyword(s):  
Expert Knowledge ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Policy Options ◽  
Types Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
New Models ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Media Organizations

This chapter elaborates on the need for knowledge-based journalism in politicized science controversies, detailing specific practices and media structures that might enable more constructive debate. In doing so, it analyzes three main models for doing knowledge-based journalism, drawing on examples of veteran journalists who serve as prototypes for new generations of professionals to emulate and for media organizations to invest in. By combining these approaches, journalists and their news organizations can contextualize and critically evaluate expert knowledge and competing claims, facilitate discussion that bridges entrenched ideological divisions, and promote consideration of a broader menu of policy options and technologies. The recent advent of several news ventures focused on deeper forms of explanatory, analytical, and data-driven journalism suggest that at least some news industry leaders and philanthropists have recognized the need for new types of knowledge-based journalism. These ventures, however, are further evidence that dramatic changes are needed in journalism education.

Paratexts, Italian style

2017 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Barra ◽  
Massimo Scaglioni
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
International Trends ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
Main Production ◽  
The One ◽  
Original Practices ◽  
Tv Show ◽  
Depth Interviews

In recent years, the completed transition towards a fully developed multichannel environment and the growth of non-linear offers has brought to the Italian television (TV) landscape unprecedented attention on the ways in which programmes are communicated to the audience and their images and identities are carefully built. The preparation and circulation of promos have therefore grown in importance and relevance in the national TV industry, as new original practices emerged and a long-lasting tradition was challenged by new formats and goals. Building on a set of in-depth interviews with professionals involved in the writing, production and distribution of promos, and analysis of other production materials, the article reconstructs the ‘promotional cultures’ of Italian broadcasters, analysing the main production processes, the different kinds of promos and the various skills involved, and the logics and constraints involved in the making of these ephemeral paratexts that more and more are pervading both the structure of programming flow and the experience of national TV viewers. Thus, the article investigates the professional practices and logics of contemporary commercial and pay TV programme promotion in Italy, defining the role played by national private broadcasters and transnational groups in shaping an Italian promotional space on TV. The ‘Italian style’ of TV show promotion emerges as a constant negotiation between local historical traditions and clichés, on the one hand, and international trends in promo production and aesthetics, on the other, with a solid path shared with other countries and broadcasters, and some peculiar specificities.

Imagined Audiences

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacob L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Financial Instability ◽  
News Production ◽  
Audience Studies ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Audience Behavior ◽  
Comprehensive Study

The news industry faces profound financial instability and public distrust. Many believe the solution to these ongoing crises is for journalists to improve their relationship with their audiences. This raises important questions: How do journalists conceptualize their audiences in the first place? What is the connection between what journalists think about their audiences and what they do to reach them? Perhaps most important, how aligned are these “imagined” audiences with the real ones? Imagined Audiences draws on ethnographic case studies of three news organizations to show how journalists’ assumptions about their audiences shape their approaches to their audiences. In doing so, it examines the role that audiences traditionally have played in journalism, how that role has changed, and what those changes mean for both the profession and the public. It concludes by drawing on audience studies research to compare journalism’s “imagined” audiences with actual observations of news audience behavior. The result is a comprehensive study of both news production and reception at a time when the connection between the two has grown more important than ever.

News Production and Distribution in the United States: Private Industry and Government Contributions

2021 ◽  
pp. 36-57
Author(s):  
Martha Minow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Federal Government ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
News Media ◽  
The United States ◽  
Private Industry ◽  
News Production ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Government Involvement

Chapter 2 anticipates objections to government involvement in news media by tracing the long-standing historical involvement of the federal government in enabling and shaping the development of the modern news media. Although private sector companies and investments have played a central role in the development of media news, for most of American history governmental involvement has been integral to the structure, financing, and effectiveness of the news industry while advancing free expression of ideas. The historic governmental actions shaping the news industry contradict the libertarian conception of the First Amendment that has grown in influence during the past several decades, a conception putting into jeopardy government actions to address the failing news industry.

“We’ve Lost the Basics”: Perceptions of Journalism Education From Veterans in the Field

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-420 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Ferrucci
Keyword(s):  
Disruptive Innovation ◽  
Journalism Education ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Teaching Technology ◽  
The People ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
News Industry ◽  
New Entrants ◽  
Depth Interviews

This study examines the perceptions that veteran digital journalists working at news organizations, the people who traditionally have hiring power, hold concerning how new entrants into the news industry are being prepared by journalism programs. Using in-depth interviews with 29 full-time digital journalists (journalists who only publish online), this study finds that while veterans said educators are doing a good job teaching technology, there is too much focus on it to the detriment of traditional journalism skills. These findings are then discussed through the lens of the theory of disruptive innovation.

Data portability effects on data-driven innovation of online platforms: Analyzing Spotify

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 102026
Author(s):  
Esmeralda Florez Ramos ◽  
Knut Blind
Keyword(s):  
Data Driven ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Data Portability

scholarly journals The New Advertisers: How Foundation Funding Impacts Journalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 45-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Ferrucci ◽  
Jacob L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Important Distinction ◽  
Influence Model ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Foundation Funding ◽  
Editorial Decisions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Hierarchy Of Influence ◽  
Journalistic Practice

Many journalism stakeholders have begun looking to philanthropic foundations to help newsrooms find economic sustainability. The rapidly expanding role of foundations as a revenue source for news publishers raises an important question: How do foundations exercise their influence over the newsrooms they fund? Using the hierarchy of influence model, this study utilizes more than 40 interviews with journalists at digitally native nonprofit news organizations and employees from foundations that fund nonprofit journalism to better understand the impact of foundation funding on journalistic practice. Drawing on previous scholarship exploring extra-media influence on the news industry, we argue that the impact of foundations on journalism parallels that of advertisers throughout the 20th century—with one important distinction: Journalism practitioners and researchers have long forbidden the influence from advertisers on editorial decisions, seeing the blurring of the two as inherently unethical. Outside funding from foundations, on the other hand, is often premised on editorial influence, complicating efforts by journalists to maintain the firewall between news revenue and production.

scholarly journals Welcome to the Era of Fake News

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Albright
Keyword(s):  
Accurate Information ◽  
Social Discourse ◽  
Fake News ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
News Industry

For the news industry, information is used to tell stories, which have traditionally been organized around “facts”. A growing problem, however, is that fact-based evidence is not relevant to a growing segment of the populace. Journalists need facts to tell stories, but they need data to understand how to engage audiences with this accurate information. The implementation of data is part of the solution to countering the erosion of trust and the decay of social discourse across networked spaces. Rather than following “trends”, news organizations should establish the groundwork to make facts “matter” by shaping the narrative instead of following deceptive statements.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence in News Media: Current Perceptions and Future Outlook

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mathias-Felipe de-Lima-Santos ◽  
Wilson Ceron
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Computer Vision ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
News Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Production And Distribution ◽  
News Industry ◽  
Journalistic Field

In recent years, news media has been greatly disrupted by the potential of technologically driven approaches in the creation, production, and distribution of news products and services. Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged from the realm of science fiction and has become a very real tool that can aid society in addressing many issues, including the challenges faced by the news industry. The ubiquity of computing has become apparent and has demonstrated the different approaches that can be achieved using AI. We analyzed the news industry’s AI adoption based on the seven subfields of AI: (i) machine learning; (ii) computer vision (CV); (iii) speech recognition; (iv) natural language processing (NLP); (v) planning, scheduling, and optimization; (vi) expert systems; and (vii) robotics. Our findings suggest that three subfields are being developed more in the news media: machine learning, computer vision, as well as planning, scheduling, and optimization. Other areas have not been fully deployed in the journalistic field. Most AI news projects rely on funds from tech companies such as Google. This limits AI’s potential to a small number of players in the news industry. We make conclusions by providing examples of how these subfields are being developed in journalism and present an agenda for future research.

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