scholarly journals Between Self-Regulation and Participatory Monitoring: Comparing Digital News Media Accountability Practices in Spain

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro-Luis Pérez-Díaz ◽  
Rocío Zamora Medina ◽  
Enrique Arroyas Langa
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Self Regulation ◽  
Regulatory System ◽  
Online News ◽  
Structural Factors ◽  
The Public ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
Accountability Practices

In recent years, the accountability practices of digital journalism have gone from constituting an intimate and self-regulatory system of journalistic culture to a complex process that is increasingly external and open to the public (Fengler, Eberwein, Mazzoleni, Porlezza, &amp; Russ-Mohl, 2014; Suárez-Villegas, Rodríguez-Martínez, Mauri-Ríos, &amp; López-Meri, 2017). In this context, values and goals may remain diverse, arguably linked to idiosyncratic elements which often open a gap between traditional and more contemporary newsroom models. Following a qualitative approach, this study examines online media accountability instruments from a functional perspective, dividing its influence in three temporal phases of news production (Heikkilä et al., 2012). In this way, instruments that hold journalists responsible for their work are explored in four leading online news media from Spain: two digital native outlets (<em>Eldiario.es</em> and <em>ElConfidencial.com</em>) and two legacy outlets (<em>ElPais.com</em> and <em>ElMundo.es</em>). In addition to this observation, in-depth interviews are conducted with staff members in charge of audience management to explore the inner routines and protocols that determine the efficacy of such aspirations.<strong> </strong>Our work reveals the preponderant role of instruments focused on the actor and production transparency that the studied media implement to fulfill their responsibility, especially when compared with the weakened self-regulation instruments. The answers of the interviewees stress the difficulties they face in managing participatory forms of accountability and disclose tensions between different strategies, as well as other structural factors that are discussed as essential for the consolidation of these deontological initiatives.

scholarly journals Social engineers and myth-busters: A comparative research on Lithuanian, Norwegian and Serbian language experts

2020 ◽  
pp. 292-344
Author(s):  
Vuk Vukotić
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Language Ideologies ◽  
Great Majority ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Striking Similarity ◽  
The Public ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The One

This article compares the language ideologies of language experts (both academic and non-academic) in online news media in Lithuania, Norway and Serbia. The results will reveal that language is understood in diametrically opposed ways amongst Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts on the one, and Norwegian academic experts on the other hand. Lithuanian and Serbian academic experts are influenced by modernist ideas of language as a single, homogenous entity, whose borders ideally match the borders of an ethnic group. Norwegian academic experts function in the public sphere as those who try to deconstruct the modernist notion of language by employing an understanding of language as a cognitive tool that performs communicative and other functions. On the other hand, non-academic experts in all the three countries exhibit a striking similarity in their language ideologies, as the great majority expresses modernist ideals of language.

scholarly journals Corpus-based Comparative Study of Online News Reporting of the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Philippines and Malaysia

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gio Eiron Villanueva
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Early Period ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Online News ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Government

When faced with new and threatening events like a global health crisis, the public tends to draw inferences from news media to make sense of the uncertainties of the situation. This study explores how online news media in the Philippines and Malaysia depicted the outbreak of COVID-19 during the early period of its spread. The study analyzes the discourse around the outbreak based on a large corpus of Facebook news posts between January and March 2020. Using a corpus-based approach called Keyness Analysis, salient themes &amp; topics, and framings around the disease were identified and interpreted. The results show the differences in the reporting of the outbreak between the two countries. News reports in the Philippines depicted the disease in an enigmatic lens which explains the alarmist angle of news reports and the reassuring tone of the government, versus the war framing of Malaysian news that depicted the disease as an enemy to be fought and defeated. In reporting about the bid to contain the spread of the virus, Philippine news reports dealt mostly with the restrictions and regulations of movement while the Malaysian news covered more issues on personal hygiene and safety protocols. Lastly, concerns for Filipino seafarers and Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) that needs to be repatriated was a recurring theme in Philippine news reports regarding COVID-19, while concerns for the economy was prominent in the Malaysian news reports. The study therefore shows that the depiction of COVID-19 in Malaysia and the Philippines are shaped by each country’s present social and political conditions.

scholarly journals From the Deeming Rule to JUUL—US News Coverage of Electronic Cigarettes, 2015–2018

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (10) ◽  
pp. 1816-1822 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olivia A Wackowski ◽  
Jennah M Sontag ◽  
Binu Singh ◽  
Jessica King ◽  
M Jane Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Electronic Cigarettes ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
High Volume ◽  
The United States ◽  
Online News ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Over Time

Abstract Introduction News media may influence public perceptions and attitudes about electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes), which may influence product use and attitudes about their regulation. The purpose of this study is to describe trends in US news coverage of e-cigarettes during a period of evolving regulation, science, and trends in the use of e-cigarettes. Methods We conducted a content analysis of e-cigarette topics and themes covered in US news articles from 2015 to 2018. Online news databases (Access World News, Factiva) were used to obtain US news articles from the top 34 circulating newspapers, four national wire services, and five leading online news sources. Results The number of articles increased by 75.4% between 2015 and 2018 (n = 1609). Most articles focused on policy/regulation (43.5%) as a main topic, followed by health effects (22.3%) and prevalence/trends (17.9%). Discussion about flavor bans quadrupled (6.1% to 24.6%) and discussion of youth e-cigarette use was most prevalent (58.4%) in 2018, coinciding with an increase in coverage about JUUL. JUUL was mentioned in 50.8% of 2018 articles. Across years, articles more frequently mentioned e-cigarette risks (70%) than potential benefits (37.3%). Conclusions E-cigarettes continue to be a newsworthy topic, with coverage both reflecting numerous changes and events over time, and providing repeated opportunities for informing the public and policymakers about these novel products. Future research should continue to track how discourse changes over time and assess its potential influence on e-cigarette perceptions and policy changes. Implications E-cigarette news coverage in the United States increased between 2015 and 2018 and predominantly focused on policy and regulation. Notable spikes in volume were associated with some but not all major e-cigarette events, including the FDA’s deeming rule, Surgeon General’s report, and release of the National Youth Tobacco Survey data in 2018. Coverage of the 2018 National Academy of Medicine, Engineering, and Sciences report on the Public Health Consequences of E-cigarettes received minimal news coverage. The high volume in 2018 was driven in large part by coverage of the e-cigarette brand JUUL; over half of news articles in 2018 referenced JUUL specifically.

scholarly journals Viral News on the Coronavirus: Does it Contribute to Health Communication?

Tripodos ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (47) ◽  
pp. 49-66
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Health Communication ◽  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Sources

From a century to a decade ago, the news media played a crucial role in providing the public with valuable in­formation, especially during a crisis. However, the advent of social media has brought about a change in ac­cess and distribution of the news and this may have resulted in less effec­tive health communication during this global coronavirus pandemic. These days, social media can have a great­er public reach and therefore, be the best tool to disseminate information. At the same time, there is the ques­tion of whether the important or trivial information is being shared. The aim of this paper is to explore the role of social media in providing the public with important information during the height of the coronavirus pandemic. Using Great Britain as a case study, the research analysed the kind of content on the coronavirus that had gone vi­ral in online news sources in the Unit­ed Kingdom to determine whether the information that was being shared contributed or not to effective health communication. Keywords: news, viral news, online media, journalism, crisis communica­tion, coronavirus.

Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha ◽  
Ronald J. McGauvran
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
News Media ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites

Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional and nontraditional media, including newspapers, broadcast and cable television transcripts, and online news websites. The data show that presidential attention to income inequality influences the income inequality news agenda across all sources except network television and affects the tone of newspaper coverage. Presidential influence of tone is especially pronounced on income inequality issues that have an international focus. The implications of this paper are significant not only for understanding how media and the presidency interact in the post-broadcast age but also for the prospects for federal policies that may combat income inequality.

scholarly journals Neuroendocrine Tumor Awareness Program in Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement 2) ◽  
pp. 137s-137s
Author(s):  
S. Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Neuroendocrine Tumor ◽  
News Media ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Online News ◽  
Online Marketing ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Cancer Awareness ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Outdoor Advertising ◽  
The Public

Background and context: Neuroendocrine tumor (NET) is difficult to detect. It's often presented with symptoms common to other diseases. To raise awareness and improve the understanding of NET, the International Neuroendocrine Cancer Alliance (INCA) announced 10th November as the World NET Cancer Day. HOPE FOUNDATION for CANCER CARE has joined the advocacy events since 2011. Aim: To raise awareness and to improve the understanding of NET. Strategy/Tactics: To raise the awareness of the 10 symptoms of NET. To provide correct information about NET. To improve the understanding of NET. Program/Policy process: We held a series of campaigns in November 2017, including: theme decorations in 11 hospitals, 3 parades and shows at public places, a new animation with online marketing and outdoor advertising. By combining online and offline events, we have reached as many people as possible to increase the awareness and improve the knowledge of NET. We built the first as well as the only NET Mandarin Web site ( www.net.org.tw ) Outcomes: We cooperated with 11 hospitals in Taiwan to display educational posters and wall stickers. The information of NET cancers not only reached the public but also oncologists. This event had 3 newspaper reports and 16 online news reports. We conducted 3 educational parades and shows with zebra theme in three main cities in Taiwan. The parade in capital city Taipei gained total 86 reports including 71 online news media, 8 television channels and 7 newspapers. We cooperated with a celebrity artist to create a zebra mascot, which represents international symbol for NET. In addition, we created awareness lightbox advertising and animated video with the mascot to attract public attention and raise awareness of NET. This animated video was published on YouTube platform, and had 504,209 impressions and 208,427 views by 31st December 2017. Moreover, it was broadcasted on taxis in Taiwan as well. It was broadcasted 1,163,248 times during the promotion period. We also implemented an online advocacy plan through Facebook. This plan was designed with 4 posts, which contained a comic strip, an online memory game, a profile picture frame and an animated video. This plan totally had 332,625 impressions and reached 154,089 people on the Internet. What was learned: According to our experience with cancer patients, we realize that utilizing mascot characters to deliver educational information is more easily perceived by the public. This year we designed a new mascot of NET which was applied to animated video and outdoor advertising. Also, we conducted 3 educational parades with zebra theme and traditional Taiwanese features, which opened up a new dimension in advocacy for cancer awareness. Overall, these events received good response from the public and oncologists. The NET Mandarin Web site also showed a significant result with an increase of 98% of monthly page views and 69.7% of new visitors views.

scholarly journals Algorithms and the News: Social Media Platforms as News Publishers and Distributors

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 261-285
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Cetina Presuel ◽  
José Manuel Martínez Sierra
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
News Media ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Online News ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Right To Information

With billons of users, social media platforms (e.g. Facebook) are dominant players in a highly-concentrated online news market. They have great power over the distribution of information to their users, and over the organizations and individuals that produce it. Social media platforms use algorithms to perform functions traditionally belonging to news editors: deciding on the importance of news items and how they are disseminated. However, they do not acknowledge the role they play in informing the public as traditional news media always have and tend to ignore that they also act as publishers of news and the responsibilities associated with that role. This paper argues that it is essential for social media platforms to understand and embrace their role as both news publishers and distributors and highlights the essential responsibilities they must undertake so they can satisfy the information needs of their audiences and protect the public’s right to information.

scholarly journals Out of an Abundance of Caution: COVID-19 and Health Risk Frames in Canadian News Media

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Rebecca Wallace ◽  
Andrea Lawlor ◽  
Erin Tolley
Keyword(s):  
Health Risk ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Epidemiological Data ◽  
Online News ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Early Stages ◽  
The Media

Abstract Although Canada's first documented case of COVID-19 appeared in mid-January 2020, it was not until March that messaging about the need to contain the virus heightened. In this research note, we document the use of the media's construction of risk through framing in the early stages of the pandemic. We analyze three dimensions of the health risk narratives related to COVID-19 that dominated Canadians’ concerns about the virus. To capture these narratives, we examine print and online news coverage from two nationally distributed media sources. We assess these frames alongside epidemiological data and find there is a clear link between media coverage, epidemiological data and risk frames in the early stages of the pandemic. It appears that the media relied on health expertise and political sources to guide their coverage and was responsive to the public health data presented to Canadians.

scholarly journals Youth’s Trust in Online News Media About The Corona Virus Issues

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 216
Author(s):  
Andini Nur Bahri
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Online News ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Corona Virus ◽  
News Websites ◽  
News Website ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of

<p><em>News and information about the corona virus has become the topic most often consumed by the public lately despite the declining public trust in the media both traditional media and online media. It also affects the younger generation in consuming media and trusting the credibility of a media. This study aims to determine the trust of students who have studied science related to the media, namely students of Islamic communication and broadcasting UINSU on online news websites about the corona virus and how is the relationship between the selection of online news website with trust in media. This study uses descriptive correlational methods with as many respondents 228 people. This research found that most of the students chose national online news websites in getting news about corona and there was no significant relationship between online news site selection and students' belief that the online news websites  published accurate facts about corona virus.</em></p>

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