Shifting Journalistic Capital?

Hellmueller, Lea; Vos, Tim P.; Poepsel, Mark

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2012.697686

Cited by 90 publications

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“…Hypothesis 1a postulated a relationship between the degree of journalistic professionalism at the national level and the source transparency provided by fact-checking services. This assumption is based on research showing that source transparency is perceived as an important journalistic value (Hellmueller et al, 2013;Karlsson, 2010a). This hypothesis is accepted since Model 1 shows a significant effect of journalistic professionalism on source transparency.…”

Section: Predicting Source Transparencymentioning

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How Do They Debunk “Fake News”? A Cross-National Comparison of Transparency in Fact Checks

Humprecht

2019

Digital Journalism

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Fact-checking has gained importance in recent years, as so-called "fake news" has started to spread on social media. News outlets and independent organizations engage in debunking to combat the massive spread of disinformation. However, several authors have argued that fact checkers can only be successful if they win the trust of the audience-by making their practices transparent. This article analyzes the degree of source transparency provided by eight fact checkers from different countries (the US, the UK, Germany, and Austria). The findings show major differences among the outlets studied which can be attributed to varying levels of journalistic professionalism as well as to organizational differences. Implications for the success of fact-checking and solutions to combat online disinformation are discussed.

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Section: Predicting Source Transparencymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Do They Debunk “Fake News”? A Cross-National Comparison of Transparency in Fact Checks

Humprecht

2019

Digital Journalism

113

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“…Somewhat ironically, then, transparency is now what objectivity was in the first half of the 20th century (Schudson, 1978), namely a means of maintaining professional autonomy in the (networked) public sphere (Allen, 2008). Especially with the emergence of blogging and social media, transparency became a pivotal transformative and relegitimizing efficacy in journalism (Hellmueller, Vos, & Poepsel, 2013;Hermida, 2010;Lasorsa, 2012;Robinson, 2007;Singer, 2007). As a recent newsroom ethnography demonstrates, transparency has helped the BBC reconstitute its reputation of impartiality in a social media-saturated news environment (Bélair-Gagnon, 2013).…”

Section: Transparency In Journalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Twitterization of News Making: Transparency and Journalistic Professionalism

Revers

2014

J Commun

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Twitter makes visible some of the most fundamental divides in professional journalism today. It reveals tensions about what constitutes news, the norms guiding journalists providing it, professional identity, and public service. This article argues that these tensions result from a clash between the institutional logic of professional control (Lewis, 2012)) and an ethic of transparency. Drawing from extensive research on a political press corps, involving observation, interviews, and analysis of tweets, this study witnesses the adoption of Twitter in the everyday working practices of reporters. It thereby also provides reasons why Twitter has been so successful in journalism. Tensions between professional control and transparency in journalism may, furthermore, be emblematic for divides in other professions today.

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“…Previous empirical research includes studies on how transparency has been appropriated by the journalistic field in trade journals and reviews and by journalistic associations (Vos and Craft 2016;Slattery 2016); journalists' views towards transparency (Hellmueller, Vos, and Poepsel 2013;Chadha and Koliska 2015); and how transparency is manifested in content and news organizations' publication platforms (Karlsson 2010;Phillips 2010;Lasorsa 2012;Lasorsa, Lewis, and Holton 2012;Morton 2015). However, the public's perceptions of transparency have not received sustained scholarly attention (notwithstanding van der Wurff and Schoenbach 2014; van der Wurff and Schönbach 2014; Karlsson, Clerwall, and Nord 2017a).…”

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Transparency to the Rescue?

Karlsson

Clerwall

2018

Journalism Studies

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Transparency has emerged as an ethical principle in contemporary journalism and is contended to improve accountability and credibility by journalists and scholars alike. However, to date, few attempts have been made to record the public's views on transparency. This study enriches current knowledge by using data from an experiment, survey and focus groups in Sweden collected between 2013 and 2015. Overall, the results suggest that the respondents are not particularly moved by transparency in any form; it does not produce much effect in the experiments and is not brought up in the focus groups. While that is the key finding of this study, it should also be noted that various forms of user participation are evaluated negatively, while providing hyperlinks, explaining news selection and framing, and correcting errors are viewed positively. Implications for journalism practice and research are discussed.

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Shifting Journalistic Capital?

Cited by 90 publications

References 28 publications

How Do They Debunk “Fake News”? A Cross-National Comparison of Transparency in Fact Checks

How Do They Debunk “Fake News”? A Cross-National Comparison of Transparency in Fact Checks

The Twitterization of News Making: Transparency and Journalistic Professionalism

Transparency to the Rescue?

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