How a copy desk “edit” influenced corrections at the New York Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 073953292110135
Author(s):  
Kirstie Hettinga ◽  
Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
Editing Process

The New York Times “streamlined” its editing process in 2017 and reduced the editing staff by nearly half. Through content analysis on corrections (N = 1,149), this research examines the effects of these cuts. Analysis revealed the Times published more corrections before the changes, but that corrections appeared more quickly after the original error occurred and there were more corrections for content in the A section following the staffing cuts. The A section includes national and international news and thus often contains political content, which is rife for heightened scrutiny in an age of media distrust. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

International News and Borrowed News in the New York Times: An Update

1993 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 638-646 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Riffe ◽  
Charles F. Aust ◽  
Rhonda J. Gibson ◽  
Elizabeth K. Viall ◽  
Huiuk Yi
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Trend Analysis ◽  
Third World ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Organization ◽  
Second World

This content analysis shows the number of international news items in the New York Times has decreased over the last 22 years. Roughly one in five items contained second-hand or borrowed news (material first disseminated by and attributed to another news organization), though trend analysis indicates increasing news borrowing. Borrowed news was most common in items from Second World (Communist) nations, but the proportion has dropped significantly during the ′80s. Third World borrowed news continues to increase significantly.

OUR KLEENEX CULTURE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-359
Author(s):  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
The City

. . . It takes about 850 acres of Canadian timber to print one Sunday's New York Times. . . . The New York Times sells for 50¢ (1972) and contains more paper and typography than an unillustrated novel selling for $7.95. While the Times carries about 500 photographs and drawings in its Sunday edition and a novel does not, book-binding costs average 22¢ per book. It costs the city of New York nearly 10¢ per copy each week to clean up discarded copies of the Sunday New York Times.

scholarly journals Imagen y comunicación: el peso de la fotografía en el periodismo digital internacional / Image and Communication: the Weight of Photography in International Digital Journalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Joan Francesc Fondevila Gascón ◽  
Carlos Cardona Pérez ◽  
Eva Santana López ◽  
Josep Rom Rodríguez ◽  
Javier López Crespo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Total Content ◽  
Home Page ◽  
Large Format ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
The Times

ABSTRACTPhotography is one of the singular indicators of digital journalism. Among its exponents (text, photography, video, sound or graphics), photography metamorphoses into the virtual environment. Through an empirical analysis, we compare the reference newspapers from four countries of global relevance: Germany, USA, Japan and the UK. The reference digital versions of the most read newspapers in these countries are Spiegel Online, The New York Times, The Japan Times, and The Times. The items analyzed in this work are all the text units published at the home page, including the number of existing photographs in total content units and the number of different types of pictures, classified in ten different parameters: photo-news, illustrative, new, resource, black and white, color, large format, small format, edited, unedited. This work confirms that photojournalism is losing its relevance at the multimedia area and that photography gives way to the purely illustrative side; photography is an element in relation to the present; black and white photography remains for documentary reasons only; the large format photography is the only with great power in news media; and editing is not as usual activity in journalism as everybody think about.RESUMENLa fotografía es uno de los indicadores singulares del periodismo digital. Entre sus exponentes (texto, fotografía, vídeo, sonido o infografía), el fotográfico se metamorfosea en en el entorno virtual. Se presenta un análisis empírico compa-rativo entre los diarios de cuatro países de relevancia a escala global: Alemania, Estados Unidos, Japón y Reino Unido, a través de las versiones digitales de referencia de los diarios más leídos en estos países: Spiegel Online, The New York Times, The Japan Times y The Times. Los ítems analizados son las unidades texto publicadas en la home page, el número de foto-grafías existentes en el total de las unidades del contenido y el número de los diferentes tipos de fotografías, clasificadas según diez parámetros diferentes: foto-noticias, ilustrativas, nuevas, de recurso, blanco y negro, en color, gran formato, pequeño formato, editadas y sin editar. Se concluye que el fotoperiodismo tiene cada vez menos relevancia en el ámbito multimedia y deja paso a la fotografía puramente ilustrativa.

Jerold S. Auerbach, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896–2016. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. xii + 309 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 290-292
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
West Bank ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
American Jewish Life ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
The Times

This chapter examines Jerold S. Auerbach's Print to Fit (2019). In this book, Auerbach charges that the New York Times consistently slanted its treatment of Israel in ways that discredited its struggle for survival and instead sympathized with the enemies of Zionism. Having assiduously combed through close to a century of articles, editorials, and op-ed pieces, Auerbach has discovered, especially in recent decades, a “preoccupation with Palestinian victimization — even when Israelis were the victims.” Print to Fit is especially harsh in its treatment of two of the Times' stars, the late Anthony Lewis and Thomas L. Friedman for having so often conveyed their own disenchantment with what they held to be the moral and political failings of Israel — in particular, the extension of Jewish settlements into the West Bank. Written from the political periphery of American Jewish life, Print to Fit risks overstating its case by simplifying it.

Narcos addiction: A three-decade content analysis of the representation of Colombia in The New York Times and on IMDb.com

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-516
Author(s):  
David Bockino
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Media Representation ◽  
South American ◽  
South American Country ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Setting Theory

Building on research into media representation of countries and agenda-setting theory, a content analysis analyzed the way Colombia was portrayed in The New York Times headlines and IMDb plot summaries during 1980 to 2013. This unusual longitudinal study compares the representation of Colombia to other South American countries. Among other conclusions, this study finds that over the 34-year period the word “drug” was included in a New York Times headline with the word “Colombia” more times than any other word with any other South American country.

scholarly journals Assessing the media visibility of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 467-480
Author(s):  
Xiaoqun Zhang
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Composite Measure ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Quantitative Content ◽  
The Media ◽  
Multiple Frames ◽  
Two Parameters

This study assessed the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times. The assessment was based on the content analysis of 317 news articles focusing on Chinese President. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify three major frames, 12 mid-level frames, and 18 sub-frames. Quantitative content analysis was used to measure the attention, prominence, and the combination of these two parameters of these frames. The findings showed that The New York Times employed multiple frames to report Chinese President, and the two frames with the highest media visibility are (Domestic) Campaigns and Strategies and China-United States (relations), rather than Human Rights.

The “Not-So-Genial” Conspiracy: The New York Times and Six Presidential “Honeymoons,” 1953–1993

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 841-850 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
The Press

Scholars and political actors generally believe that presidents enjoy a period of sanguine rapport with the press gallery during a honeymoon of about two months at the beginning of each new administration. The honeymoon is characterized by a minimum of hostile questions by reporters and relatively gentle media treatment of the new president. However, this content analysis of front-page headlines in the New York Times during the first 100 days of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Carter, Reagan, and Clinton administrations suggests that all honeymoons are not equal.

“All the News That's Fit to Print”: A Content Analysis of the Correctional Debate in the New York Times

2000 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 245-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL WELCH ◽  
LISA WEBER ◽  
WALTER EDWARDS
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times
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