Outside influences: Extramedia forces and the newsworthiness conceptions of online newspaper journalists

Cassidy, William P.

doi:10.5210/fm.v13i1.2051

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“…Nevertheless, these largely journalism-specific institutional circumstances are evolving rapidly. Indeed, several of the most current studies have revisited this conventional wisdom about journalis-audience relationships and have found it lacking, and each one has found journalistic knowledge of audience's habits and news preferences to be far more extensive than in the days of Deciding What's News (Cassidy, 2008;MacGregor, 2007;Outing, 2005;Rogers, 2001). As Outing noted in 2005 (n.p.…”

Section: The News Industry Construction Of the Audience: Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Between creative and quantified audiences: Web metrics and changing patterns of newswork in local US newsrooms

2011

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How are transformations in newswork intersecting with changes in the monitoring of reader behavior and new technologies of audience measurement? How, in short, are journalistic ‘visions of the audience’ shifting in the online era, and how are they enabling particular editorial practices? This article explores a provocative tension between the now common rhetorical invocation of the news audience as a ‘productive and generative’ entity, and the simultaneous, increasingly common institutional reduction of the audience to a quantifiable, rationalizable, largely consumptive aggregate. The first half of article reviews the literature on the relationship between audience understanding and newsroom practices. The second half of the article is comprised of an ethnographic analysis of the manner by which increasingly prominent and widespread techniques of audience measurement and quantification interact with the newsroom rhetoric of the active, generative audience. The article concludes with some thoughts regarding the role played by audience quantification and rationalization in shifting newswork practices. It argues that the underlying rhetoric of the active audience can be seen as laying the groundwork for a vision of the professional reporter that is less autonomous in his or her news decisions and increasingly reliant on audience metrics as a supplement to news judgment.

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Section: The News Industry Construction Of the Audience: Literaturementioning

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Between creative and quantified audiences: Web metrics and changing patterns of newswork in local US newsrooms

2011

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“…From an audience perspective, studies have focused on the increasing choices offered by news sites (Chung, 2008; Shoemaker et al, 2011; Singer, 2011). Envisioning the change from news workers’ standpoints, scholars have found that this evolution does have an impact on journalists (Cassidy, 2008; Lee and Lewis, 2012; McKenzie et al, 2011). What is unclear here is the importance of the audience among other factors proposed in Shoemaker and Reese’s model, in exerting influences on the gatekeeping process, especially by using quantitative data.…”

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The online audience as gatekeeper: The influence of reader metrics on news editorial selection

2013

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editorial selection The online audience as gatekeeper: The influence of reader metrics on news -Oct 9, 2014 version of this article was published on more recent A Published by: http://www.sagepublications.com can be found at: Journalism Additional services and information for AbstractThis study provides a snapshot of the hierarchy-of-influences model in the new media environment through examining the effects of audience web metrics on editors. Surveying 318 gatekeepers, the study found that audience metrics influence editors in gatekeeping. Editors' likelihood to monitor web metrics is affected by their journalism training. Gatekeepers who attach the importance of high readership to economic benefits are more likely to have different news decisions based on web metrics. The study suggests a revision of the hierarchy-of-influences model with more emphasis being placed on the role of the audience.

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“…"This can be interpreted as an indication that print newspaper journalists are still a bit skeptical of online journalism and its norms and practices" (p. 157). The study found that Internet reliance influenced this attitude (Cassidy, 2007b). Indeed, a later study found differences between online and print journalists in terms of online activities.…”

Section: Different Media Different Journalistsmentioning

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“…When asked to rate the credibility of Internet news, Cassidy (2007b) found what could have been a manifestation of medium-based loyalty: online newspaper journalists rated Internet news as more credible than did print newspaper journalists. "This can be interpreted as an indication that print newspaper journalists are still a bit skeptical of online journalism and its norms and practices" (p. 157).…”

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Breaking News or Breaking the Newspaper? Print Journalists, Online Journalists and Their Medium-Based Loyalties

Tandoc¹

2014

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This study explores the concept of “medium-based loyalties” by looking at the attitudes of journalists toward the predicted demise of the newspaper and the new media presented to be displacing it. In a survey of 110 newspaper and website reporters in the Philippines, this study found a manifestation of medium-based loyalties, consistent with previous studies that found differences between perceptions of journalists tied to different media: Newspaper reporters were more optimistic about the future of their own medium while website reporters rated their own medium more positively. Though journalists get socialized into the practice of journalism, it is apparent that within the profession are several sub-groups. A sub-group could be based on medium. In providing a way to understand the process behind attitudes of journalists, the concept of medium-based loyalties can help in offering ways to address the implications of these attitudes.

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Outside influences: Extramedia forces and the newsworthiness conceptions of online newspaper journalists

Cited by 6 publications

References 30 publications

Between creative and quantified audiences: Web metrics and changing patterns of newswork in local US newsrooms

Between creative and quantified audiences: Web metrics and changing patterns of newswork in local US newsrooms

The online audience as gatekeeper: The influence of reader metrics on news editorial selection

Breaking News or Breaking the Newspaper? Print Journalists, Online Journalists and Their Medium-Based Loyalties

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