Making Sources Visible: Representation of Evidence in News Texts, 2007–2019

Coddington, Mark; Molyneux, Logan

doi:10.1080/17512786.2021.1949629

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“…Results show how news reporters use different types of evidence, whether they were explicitly mentioned in the item (Coddington and Molyneux, 2020) or not. We present the results according to the research questions.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…On the other hand, content analysis is too dependent on explicit mentions of evidence, exposing only the tip of the evidentiary iceberg (cf. Coddington and Molyneux, 2020).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Coddington (2018), one of the few who claim that reporters do rely on evidence, maintained that reporters ‘gather corroborating evidence to bolster the credibility of their own accounts’ (13). Using content analysis of online news in the USA, Coddington and Molyneux (2020) found that news texts rarely exhibit firsthand evidence, rather relying overwhelmingly on the assertions of others, with a growing share of thirdhand evidence mediated through other texts – social media posts, press releases, documents and media.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Reliance on evidence to corroborate or refute claims, hypotheses and beliefs is considered a desired practice in journalism (Carey, 1986;Coddington, 2018;Coddington and Molyneux, 2020;Godler and Reich, 2015;Martine and De Maeyer, 2018;Tuchman, 1972) as well as in law, sciences, philosophy and other disciplines (Douglas, 2012;Stegenga, 2012;Stein, 1996Stein, , 2005. However, the extent to which journalists actually use evidence remains unclear.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The third reason to explore reporters’ reliance on evidence is the methodological and theoretical lacunae. Empirical studies of journalistic knowledge in general and evidence in particular are not only scarce (Anderson, 2018; Coddington and Molyneux, 2020; Westlund and Lewis, 2018), but also fragmentary. Studies tend to focus on particular ‘evidentiary objects’ such as eye-witnessing (Allan, 2013; Reich and Godler, 2017; Zelizer, 2007), documents (Anderson, 2010; Ettema and Glasser, 1998; Latour, 1986; Mor and Reich, 2017), hyperlinks (Martine and De Maeyer, 2018) databases (Loosen et al, 2017; Parasie, 2015), photos (Fosdick and Fahmy, 2007; Mäenpää, 2013; Taylor, 2000) and video (Bock and Schneider, 2017; Ristovska, 2018).…”

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Justifying the news: The role of evidence in daily reporting

Reich

Barnoy

2021

Journalism

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Reliance on evidence is highly desired in disciplines such as science and law. However, the extent to which daily reporters use it to corroborate or refute sources’ say-so is disputed. To explore how evidence is built into stories in ways that are not entirely obvious from the manifest content, we studied the involvement of evidence in a sample of stories, published by leading print and online Israeli news outlets, using reconstruction interviews with the reporters who authored them. Findings indicate that reliance on evidence is an established news reporting routine found in 42 percent of the items. It is used significantly more often under epistemically-challenging circumstances (conflicts over facts, risky publications and unscheduled events) that attract extra reporting efforts (more sources per item, more verifications and longer reporting hours). To systematize reliance on evidence – as other disciplines strive to – news reporting must move further in their evidentiary genealogy, developing a unified system of guidelines on how all types of evidence should be admitted, evaluated and implemented.

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“…On the other hand, content analysis is too dependent on explicit mentions of evidence, exposing only the tip of the evidentiary iceberg (cf. Coddington and Molyneux, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Barnoy

2021

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Constructing Political Expertise in the News

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Krupnikov²,

Ryan³

et al. 2023

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Expert news sources offer context and act as translators, communicating complex policy issues to the public. Therefore, these sources have implications for who, and what is elevated and legitimized by news coverage. This element considers patterns in expert sources, focusing on a particular area of expertise: politics. As a starting point, it conducts a content analysis tracking which types of political experts are most likely to be interviewed, using this analysis to explain patterns in expert sourcing. Building on the source data, it next conducts experiments and surveys of journalists to consider demand for expert sources. Finally, shifting the analysis to the supply of expert sources, it turns to a survey of faculty to track expert experiences with journalists. Jointly, the results suggest underlying patterns in expert sourcing is a tension between journalists' preferences, the time constraints of producing news, and the preferences of the experts themselves.

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When Sources Contradict: The Epistemological Functions of Contradiction in News Texts

Coddington

Molyneux

2023

Journalism Studies

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Making Sources Visible: Representation of Evidence in News Texts, 2007–2019

Cited by 9 publications

References 46 publications

Justifying the news: The role of evidence in daily reporting

Justifying the news: The role of evidence in daily reporting

Constructing Political Expertise in the News

When Sources Contradict: The Epistemological Functions of Contradiction in News Texts

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