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 …
As a visual medium, television always intended to present beauty to attract the audience. There is a general understanding among television stations that women are expected to look younger and sexier and the white people are standard of beauty. So race and gender disparities have been …
Data journalism is a growing practice in newsrooms across the globe. Getting data from various sources, journalists are constantly experimenting and practicing data-driven journalism. This practice is not confined to newsrooms; however, other peripheral actors, such as nonprofits and civic technology organizations, practice data journalism. …
Over the past decade, people have experienced a wave of social networking sites, offering them to experience unprecedented interactivity. A recent Pew Research Center study found that about 56 percent of adult social media users in the United States use more than one of these platforms: Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest, …
Americans still prefer getting their news from television, according to a recent Pew Research Center survey. The survey found that 47 percent of Americans prefer watching the news rather than reading or listening to it. The figure was 46 percent in 2016. The study was conducted between July …
Grammatical errors can lower the perceived quality and credibility of news stories, but those results depend on the number of mistakes, two researchers have found. Alyssa Appelman, assistant professor in the Communication department at the Northern Kentucky University, and Mike Schmierbach, associate professor of media studies …
Parents are the primary agents in the socialization of their children. They guide their children about television viewing: what to see, what not to see and how much time they will spend with the TV. In such situations, children are viewed as passive recipients of …
Journalists write investigative stories to inform citizens about abuses of power. As local TV is American’s preferred news source, television investigations have the potential for great impact. Jesse Abdenour, assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Oregon, examined the amount …
Advances in technology allow news outlets to publish news on various platforms—their own websites, social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, and so on. As a result, many readers do not subscribe to broadsheet; rather, they read news on social media pages of news outlets. News …
Data journalism is getting much attention in newsrooms in recent years. Large news organizations like The New York Times and The Washington Post continue to invest in data-driven journalism by introducing separate units to produce that content in their newsrooms. Many journalists and news organizations view …
News organizations are using analytics for numerous purposes, including attracting advertising, informing structural changes as well as comparing their performance against that of their competitors. To examine how newsrooms use editorial analytics to inform their day-to-day news production and distribution practices, three researchers interviewed 21 online …
Images that go with news articles evoke emotions and frame citizens’ perceptions of politics. In recent times, thanks to the mobile technology, videos have been added to the texts to provide more meaningful contexts to the readers. But there comes a question: Do news videos …
