Email newsletters are increasingly popular delivery systems for legacy and digital-native news outlets. The newsletter embodies another level of gatekeeping, but little research has explored which stories make it through the email newsletter “gate” and into the subscriber's inbox. This content analysis of newsletter items …
Members of the post-millennial generation, born after 1997, grew up using digital technologies, and their news consumption through social media differs from that of older generations. It can lead to what is called youthquake, which describes significant societal change initiated by young peoples’ actions. At the …
A recent study investigated the ways news articles portrayed “locus of responsibility” for cancer causes and solutions, and it identified the factors associated with the different LOR frames in cancer news in South Korea. The study focused on the medical expertise of health journalists and how …
A recent study finds that The New York Times and the entertainment industry have played a major role in making the word “drug” synonymous with Colombia. The study, conducted by David Bockino, an assistant professor at the School of Communications at Elon University, revealed that for …
Media coverage of transgender issues has created problems over labeling individuals with incorrect pronouns. Minjie Li, a researcher from The University of Tampa, studied how the use of gender-influenced pronouns and names in news articles affected the attitudes of readers toward members of the transgender community. …
A recent study of German news organizations has found that crime and politics topped the list of topics most often sent to audiences through WhatsApp. The study was conducted by TU Dortmund University researchers Karin k and Lars Koppers. They looked at 78 news organizations and …
For the last few years, third-party technology firms have been helping newsrooms become more automated. A recent study, however, found that newsroom automation is being adopted slowly due to the scarcity of resources and skilled journalists in the news organizations. The study relied on interviews with …
A recent study on the use of Instagram Stories by the globally acclaimed news outlets found that sports dominate the story topics, followed by “society news” and “people.” The study was conducted by researchers Jorge Vázquez-Herrero, Sabela Direito-Rebollal and Xosé López-García of Universidade de Santiago de …
The Reuters Institute 2020 Digital News Report found that the coronavirus crisis has increased news consumption for traditional news sources. Most of the data was collected in January before the virus hit, but the Reuters Institute conducted a follow-up survey in April in select six countries …
Readers often intend to verify the news if they believe the headline is true, a recent study has found. The researchers conducted a web-based survey on U.S. adults in July 2017 through a sample provided by the survey company Qualtrics. A total of 841 participants, between …
Does the future of small-town news depend on big social media? Jeremy Weldon, the news editor at the Panolian, a newspaper in Panola County, Mississippi, is a reluctant supporter of social media. While he runs a traditional bi-weekly paper, he believes that social media is an …
Due to the increase in watching video content online, video news organizations for their sustainability need to develop feasible business models attaching priority to the length and quality of video contents, experts said. Most of the recent research on video content indicated its positive prospects. Google …
