Diversity in the News: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework

Voakes, Paul S.; Kapfer, Jack; Kurpius, David D.; Chern, David Shano-Yeon

doi:10.1177/107769909607300306

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“…Similarly, journalists and the public agree that diversity efforts in the newsroom will produce beneficial results for the community (Gross, Craft, Cameron, & Antecol, 2002). On the business side, a diverse newsroom might favorably influence the newspapers' reputation, resulting in increased circulation (Voakes, Kapfer, Kurpius, & Chern, 1996). Owners interested in the profit margin are well aware that they must cover minority issues to attract minority readers (Ankney & Procopio, 2003;Brislin & Williams, 1996;Gross, Curtin, & Cameron, 2001).…”

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Interviewing the Interviewers: Journalistic Norms and Racial Diversity in the Newsroom

Nishikawa

Towner

Clawson

et al. 2009

Howard Journal of Communications

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Interviewing the Interviewers: Journalistic Norms and Racial Diversity in the Newsroom

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“…Only a handful of studies have addressed the impact of media concentration and types of ownership on the actual news content. Some of these have addressed the issue of content diversity (Entman, 2006;Voakes, Kapfer, Kurpius, & Chern, 1996), but have not been able to establish any causal interference. While some studies show a reduction in media coverage diversity in the wake of mergers or acquisitions (Landry, 2011), other studies find stability, convergence and divergence in editorial content over time (Ho & Quinn, 2009).…”

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Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

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Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

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During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Voakes et al found that medium and small news organizations have a much larger percentage of wire copy on issues of statewide interest than larger ones. 7 And although people may turn to newspapers for local news first, national, international and state news are also in the top six among content category preferences for readers of all ages. 8 Although the Web in general can be a dubious source for trustworthy information, users do seem willing to turn to online newspapers for non-local stories of importance to them.…”

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The Metro Wide Web: Changes in Newspapers' Gatekeeping Role Online

Singer

2001

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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Newspapers traditionally have brought selected information about the world to local readers' doorsteps.But as papers go online, their editors face new decisions relating to that gate-keeping role. This study examines the print and online versions of six Colorado newspapers, comparing the amount of local and non-local news, sports and business content in each. The findings indicate the online products have a much stronger local orientation than the print ones, suggesting that online papers may be moving toward a reinterpretation of their role in connecting readers to the world beyond their horizons. THE METRO WIDE WEB: Changes in Newspapers' Gate-keeping Role OnlineIt is hardly news that the World Wide Web presents newspapers with innumerable challenges to their traditional roles. Publishers and editors wrestle with issues of content, staffing, revenue generation and a host of related concerns. One persistently perplexing issue has been how to balance two of the Web's more striking attributes, which happen to present diametrically opposite alternatives for a news organization. On the one hand, the Web is the first truly global medium; content can be disseminated to millions of people in all corners of the globe instantly and without any incremental increase over the cost of sending it electronically around a more literal corner. Yet the Web also is the ultimate niche medium.Because it has no physical limits, it can serve the narrowest of interests, the tiniest of territories.A print newspaper is somewhere between a universal medium and a personal one. Just where it lies on that continuum depends on its mission, market and resources; The New York Times serves an international community well beyond New York City, while a rural daily may reach only a few thousand people. But regardless of their size or scope, U.S. newspapers share the role of gate-keeper to the world for their readers. All newspapers present a selection of the day's events, along with other items deemed of interest. That compilation consists of a mix of information from both inside and outside the paper's local circulation area. Each day's newspaper provides a concrete and finite world view that takes in both the proximate and the distant. It is a package that inherently recognizes that the place one lives --the place inhabited by local readers --is part of a set of larger places that includes the state, the region, the nation and, ultimately, the entire planet. Though it serves a community primarily defined by geography, one of the print newspaper's key roles is to connect that geographic community to the rest of the world.This study examines how that role is changing as newspapers move online. It suggests that although physical distribution of the paper's content has been freed from all geographic constraints, the online paper's world view is far more narrowly focused than that of its print counterpart. The findings indicate that the online paper, at least in its early incarnation, is an overwhelmingly local medium serving a specific commu...

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Diversity in the News: A Conceptual and Methodological Framework

Cited by 104 publications

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Interviewing the Interviewers: Journalistic Norms and Racial Diversity in the Newsroom

Interviewing the Interviewers: Journalistic Norms and Racial Diversity in the Newsroom

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

The Metro Wide Web: Changes in Newspapers' Gatekeeping Role Online

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