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Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies - Volume 13, Issue 1, 2024
Volume 13, Issue 1, 2024
- Editorial
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Moment of fracture for journalism
More LessIn this edition we seek to advance a debate that helps us redefine journalism. Not as a new fixed concept but rather as an open-ended discussion that allows for the nuance that the fracture of a traditional way of reporting news hands to us as observers. For this journal, however, our role will not be as impassive and neutral analysists but rather as active participants fostering future discussion and debates. The combination of papers that we present in this issue is a reflection on these challenges and each one of them provides, in its own way, an engaging and provoking response. It is precisely because the authors bring about research and discussion that touch upon these issues that this edition seems so relevant for journalism today.
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- Articles
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An understanding of Nigerian television mobile news applications and associate news locations
More LessMobile applications are already part of the contemporary news experience, which increasingly includes the convergent mobile application news content of conventional media, such as television stations. Impressively, the experience of such convergences has spread to include developing nations, including Nigeria. However, despite the enormous digital device and media penetrations in the country, little research has been done in order to understand the nature of such television stations’ mobile application news. With regards to the foregoing, and the importance of associated news locations, this content analysis research has been conducted and has found serious correlation between ownership type and television application news content. While Africa is the dominant proximate news locations of the prominent Nigerian television mobile application news studied, the news spread categories are largely similar across all mobile application news content.
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Pressure, compromise and overwork: How Australian regional journalists gain job satisfaction through community service
Authors: Elizabeth Jane Stephens and Rosanna NatoliIn a time of enormous change in the Australian news media industry – with outlet closures, redesign of company business models, rationalization of staff and shifts in medium uptake – this article explores journalists’ exposure to and perceptions of work pressures in their jobs. It explores the relationship of these experiences with the journalists’ job satisfaction. The study reports that journalists find the industry difficult and demanding, with time pressures, ethical compromise and overwork being their main concerns. However, the study also found that journalists still derive satisfaction from a profession they perceive as meaningful through informing their communities about matters that affect their decision making and how they live. This passion for community service alongside the notion of holding authority to account result in a sense of overarching job satisfaction. This article presents part of a study that investigated the experience of journalists in remote and regional media organizations in Queensland and New South Wales through survey and interviews.
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Manufacturing foreign news from afar: Views from an editor’s desk
By Tabe BergmanEdward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model, one of the major scholarly contributions to the understanding of – especially foreign – news produced by the US media, consists of trenchant analysis of media industries and volumes of media content, while mostly ignoring an important intermediate step: what happens in the newsroom. This article aims to fill in those blanks with a critical reflection informed by academic literature on the author’s time working as a global news editor with two news agencies, including the main American one, the Associated Press. Specifically, the article aims to clarify and expand on three concepts related to journalistic practices that get short shrift in the propaganda model: journalists’ individual responsibility for the product they produce, their intent and their conformity to organizational imperatives, thereby as much as possible making understandable how and why the propaganda model works on the ground.
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‘Fake news’, real impact: Changing practices among public broadcasting organizations in the Asia-Pacific region
Authors: Antoon De Rycker, Ramachandran Ponnan and Lai Fong YangThis study is an attempt to understand ‘fake news’ from the unique perspective of public broadcasting organizations in the Asia-Pacific region; the focus is on how – and how well – they have adapted to the growing incidence of various forms of disinformation, and how they see their role in educating diverse audiences about the phenomenon. This research provides public broadcasting organizations and (news) media practitioners with up-to-date, evidence-based insights on how to combat ‘fake news’ and disinformation effectively. In collaboration with the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, a census survey was conducted among their members, resulting in 57 completed questionnaires, representing 24 public broadcasting organizations in eighteen countries. A major finding is that public broadcasting organizations have to get used to revisiting, revising and refining what it is they do (practices), how it is being done (systems, operating procedures, technologies, financial resources) and by whom (human but also IT resources). The analysis also points up the need for collaboration so that scarce resources can be utilized more efficiently.
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Automating the search and selection of news in municipal registries: Experiences from a Swedish participatory action research project
More LessThis article describes a Swedish case study with a focus on how to enhance journalists’ professional autonomy, local news coverage and local democracy with the help of an automated search tool. The aim was to involve journalists in the development project using the theory of participatory action research and tailor a search tool to their specific needs to search for news stories in documents from municipalities. We conclude that user-centred design is a viable methodology when developing a new tool, but not necessarily when it comes to implementing the tool in journalists’ everyday practice, as the implementation is dependent on other factors connected to management and organizational structures. It became clear that the journalists were optimistic about the automated search tool as long as it made their work more efficient in terms of time and money and offered better possibilities for independent news discovery. We also noticed that some of the journalists’ professional knowledge about a certain geographical area or municipality became subordinate to the knowledge of how to best use available search tools.
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Sentiment analysis of tweet content on Hurricane Dorian: Sensemaking in digital journalistic inquiry ecology
By Yanfang WuTwitter is a powerful digital journalistic instrument and evidence shows journalists were transferring authority to Twitter. With journalistic information ecology becoming imbalanced, it is valuable to research how journalists may use Twitter to discover accurate and reliable information and maintain a vast overview of news events without shifting the power as the fourth estate. The purpose of this study is to provide a possible digital journalistic inquiry model to identify trending topics, distinguish reliable journalistic information while maintaining the balance of journalistic information ecology. Utilizing a large-scale dataset – 1.2 million tweets collected from Twitter API – this study executed cutting-edge network analysis and sentiment analysis to fill in the knowledge gap through a case study on Hurricane Dorian. The study found that the impact of traditional opinion leaders on information diffusion is declining. On the contrary, top in-degree centrality users play more important roles in information diffusion on Twitter. Moreover, tweets with negative polarity opinions were retweeted more. In addition, non-opinion leaders’ negatively polarized tweets were retweeted more than positively polarized ones, although it is not the same case with opinion leaders. With the change of journalistic ecology, identifying top in-degree centrality users and examining their tweets will provide useful resources for journalists to identify keywords, trending themes and predict how likely a topic may interest audience based on degree of polarity and number of retweets on Twitter. The results provide useful patterns for journalists to follow in sensemaking tasks in digital journalistic inquiry.
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- Book Reviews
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Material Media-Making in the Digital Age, Daniel Binns (2021)
By Wafa KhalfanReview of: Material Media-Making in the Digital Age, Daniel Binns (2021)
Bristol: Intellect Books, 194 pp.,
ISBN 978-1-78938-349-2, h/bk, GBP 80
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Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era, Nael Jebril, Stephen Jukes, Sofia Iordanidou and Emmanouil Takas (eds) (2020)
More LessReview of: Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era, Nael Jebril, Stephen Jukes, Sofia Iordanidou and Emmanouil Takas (eds) (2020)
Bristol: Intellect, 211 pp.,
ISBN 987-1-78938-168-9, h/bk, £100
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