Defining Journalism Innovation in Latin America: Exploration Into Perceptions Among Educators, Students, and Journalists

Weiss, Amy Schmitz; Joyce, Vanessa de Macedo Higgins; Harlow, Summer; Alves, Rosental Calmon

doi:10.1177/1077695820935327

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“…In fact, despite the obstacles presented in the previous paragraph, there is a growing academic consensus that the practice of inter-firm collaboration is gaining traction in the field (Cook, 2021;Heft, 2021;Konieczna, 2020). More recently, literature has illustrated that the practice of collaboration is taking off beyond the scope of large investigations such as the Panama Papers (Heft, 2021) towards smaller-scale initiatives at a local level, as in the case of some South American initiatives (Chacón & Saldaña, 2021;Schmitz Weiss et al, 2018) or for politically pressured news media (Cook, 2021). At a theoretical level, Graves and Konieczna (2015) explored the idea of collaboration as a practice of field repair in which the democratic mission of journalism is revamped by news-sharing despite journalism remaining a competitive occupation.…”

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Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations

Zambelli,

Morganti

2024

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Beyond the widespread disruption narrative around media innovation, journalism scholarship has put forward valuable remedies to counteract a techno-deterministic perspective by embracing socio-constructivist and socio-technical approaches. Nevertheless, thus far, scholarly attention has primarily been directed towards the newsroom despite the journalism field having undergone significant structural transformations. In this article, we adopt an organisational perspective to journalism innovation and apply it to the emerging locus of inter-firm collaborations in journalism. In fact, while the newsroom has traditionally been considered the dominant location for implementing innovations, an increasing amount of media work currently occurs in decentralised settings. Our study draws upon 20 qualitative interviews with media practitioners and media managers who have been involved as project leaders in inter-firm collaborative projects. These projects have received institutional funding specifically aimed at fostering media innovation. We strive to understand how practitioners conceive of innovation in their overall activity, what obstacles they encounter in their usual routines, and how collaborative practices support them in their innovation trajectory. Our findings indicate that innovation is predominantly perceived as a demanding and complex ongoing practice characterised by adaptation to an evolving environment and hindered by a lack of resources and time. We also find that collaborations offer media practitioners a temporary framework for balancing their efforts to keep up with the demand for daily media production and their aspiration to carry out explorative activities. Lastly, our research reveals that these collaborations provide occasions for knowledge exchange and self-reflection that are frequently absent in non-collaborative settings.

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Section: Inter-firm Collaboration: An Avenue To Media Innovation?mentioning

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Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations

Zambelli,

Morganti

2024

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“…En este sentido, tienden a adaptar las innovaciones a su forma tradicional de trabajar . Varias investigaciones señalan que las innovaciones incorporadas en la redacción se reflejan en una mayor integración entre departamentos (Cestino;Berndt, 2017; o equipos multidisciplinares, y perfiles polivalentes (Zayani, 2021, García-Avilés;Carvajal Prieto;Arias Robles, 2018) o hibridación de roles (Schmitz Weiss et al, 2020).…”

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La sostenibilidad de los medios a través de los conceptos de engagement y relevancia: scoping review

2022

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Los conceptos de relevancia y engagement aportan claves para analizar la situación actual de las empresas periodísticas, en busca de un nuevo modelo de sostenibilidad que complemente los ingresos por publicidad, principalmente, con las suscripciones. Para asegurar sus fuentes de financiación, los medios necesitan recuperar la relevancia que han ido perdiendo, y conseguir el engagement con su público. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de una scoping review cuyo objetivo es identificar la visión de la academia sobre los conceptos de la relevancia y el engagement aplicados a la sostenibilidad del periodismo. Los resultados evidencian una preocupación creciente por la viabilidad económica de los medios. También reciben una especial atención los procesos de innovación y los intentos de afianzar el modelo de negocio en los usuarios de pago. El análisis del engagement muestra que todavía no hay una definición consensuada por parte de la academia. Además, los resultados evidencian diferencias importantes con la visión de los profesionales. La relevancia, aunque en menor medida, está presente en el debate sobre la sostenibilidad a través de la visibilidad y la confianza que aportan las marcas de los medios.

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“…Despite its political, social and economic challenges, Latin America is one of the regions where this technology-driven media trend has been most marked (Salaverría et al, 2019). In this area there has been a large number of innovative journalistic projects launched in recent years (Mioli & Nafría, 2017, 2018Schmitz Weiss et al, 2020). There is also a strong presence of fact-checking initiatives within the global context .…”

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Fact-checkers on social networks: analysis of their presence and content distribution channels

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González²,

García³

2022

Communication & Society

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Fact-checking is a thriving journalistic discipline that, in recent years, has gained great prominence as a tool in combating disinformation. The effectiveness of the work carried out by these journalistic initiatives depends not only on the quality of their content, but also on their ability to reach large audiences through the same channels by which disinformation spreads. In this context, we consider it important to know to what extent fact-checkers use social networks and other types of digital channels in order to deliver their fact-checks to a wide audience, whether there are differences between the practices developed by these actors according to the type of organisation to which they belong and whether there is a distinguishing element in this regard for Ibero-American fact-checkers. This article focuses on analysing the presence on social networks and the use of content distribution tools by 104 fact-checkers from all over the world pertaining to the International Fact-Checking Network in 2020. The results show significant differences in terms of network presence based on the type of entity to which fact-checkers belong, the independent fact-checkers being the ones using a wider variety of distribution channels. It has also been confirmed that Ibero-American fact-checkers have a greater presence on social networks, use more digital tools and provide more channels to share their content than the rest of the international sample.

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Defining Journalism Innovation in Latin America: Exploration Into Perceptions Among Educators, Students, and Journalists

Cited by 10 publications

References 39 publications

Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations

Breaking Away From Hectic Daily Media Production: Unleashing Explorative Innovation Through Inter-Firm Collaborations

La sostenibilidad de los medios a través de los conceptos de engagement y relevancia: scoping review

Fact-checkers on social networks: analysis of their presence and content distribution channels

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