Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology

Price, Lada Trifonova; Antonova, Vesislava

doi:10.1080/17512786.2022.2118154

Cited by 16 publications

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“…In line with relevant work (e.g., Araújo et al, 2023; Litvinenko et al, 2022; Bernaola-Serrano and Aguado-Guadalupe, 2022; Trifonova Price and Antonova, 2022), we argue that global journalism failed to cater for the needs of an informed citizenry as the national framework of news production hampered the informational potential of today's news ecology (Volkmer and Firdaus, 2013) allowing traditional institutional players to dominate the narration of the crisis. Journalism itself was put in a ‘cautious mode’ that hindered its capacity and willingness to freely use and interact with a maltitude of sources in order to explain the pandemic and its consequences.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Newswork in crisis: Sourcing patterns during COVID-19 through a ‘lived experience’ perspective

Spyridou,

Vatikiotis,

Maniou

2023

International Communication Gazette

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During crises the newsmedia are expected to provide relevant and accurate information to help citizens comprehend the crisis and act upon it. As a source-driven practice, journalism relies on a variety of sources to validate news and provide perspectives. The disruptive nature of a crisis though raises questions about how journalists select sources and what these choices say about professional autonomy and criticality. Considering source choices as newsgathering venues and strategies, and drawing on semi-structured interviews with journalists in Greece and Cyprus, the study explores the factors that shaped journalists’ sourcing practices during the COVID-19 crisis. We find that journalists over-relied on political sources and selective authoritative voices compromising the tenets of verification and independence. The fear to convey inaccurate or ‘biased’ information amid disinformation flows, bolstered journalist's elite orientation. Professional precarity and economic pressures are found to further worsen the ‘lived experience’ of journalists limiting their ability to question and scrutinise power in times of crises.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 83%

Newswork in crisis: Sourcing patterns during COVID-19 through a ‘lived experience’ perspective

Spyridou,

Vatikiotis,

Maniou

2023

International Communication Gazette

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“…The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic from Wuhan, China, in December 2019 has been exerting a huge impact on public health, politics, economics, and social development across the globe (Jia and Lu, 2021). The COVID-19 brought a unique set of challenges to journalists worldwide, including new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice (Price and Antonova, 2022). Allsop (2020) states that COVID-19 "hammered" the media worldwide, particularly on local level, brining cuts, layoffs, furlough and salary reductions (Price and Antonova, 2022).…”

Section: Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The COVID-19 brought a unique set of challenges to journalists worldwide, including new threats to media freedom, journalism safety and practice (Price and Antonova, 2022). Allsop (2020) states that COVID-19 "hammered" the media worldwide, particularly on local level, brining cuts, layoffs, furlough and salary reductions (Price and Antonova, 2022). Bright et al (2020) state that health news is usually regarded as biased and misleading as it is politicized by means of criticizing the corrupt democratic system, praising its own leadership, and making use of conspiracy theories (Jia and Lu, 2021).…”

Section: Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Posetti, Bell, and Brown (2020) claim that the COVID-19 effect has resulted in a sharp decline in advertising revenues, sometimes as much as a 50-75% decrease. This decline can be attributed, in part, to businesses cutting back on their advertising spending and the dominance of social media in online advertising (Price and Antonova, 2022). Advertisers are suspending promotional funds in anticipation of the gloomy, uncertain economic situation.…”

Section: Covid-19 Pandemicmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The coronavirus pandemic that started in 2020 showed society how vulnerable journalism is and how important it is (Olsen and Westlund, 2020). While the full impact of the pandemic on journalism has to be fully explored, current research indicates that journalism suffered from a "extinction event" brought on by "an unprecedented convergence of threats" (Price and Antonova, 2022).…”

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Rahmat Hidayat,

Rusmana

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Challenges and Opportunities for Journalism in the Bulgarian COVID-19 Communication Ecology

Cited by 16 publications

References 18 publications

Newswork in crisis: Sourcing patterns during COVID-19 through a ‘lived experience’ perspective

Newswork in crisis: Sourcing patterns during COVID-19 through a ‘lived experience’ perspective

Independence of Television Journalists in Reporting on the COVID-19 Vaccine in Indonesia: A Case Study

COVID-19 Research in Communication Journals: A Structural Topic Modeling-Assisted Bibliometric Analysis

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