Abstract

The Bridge Collapse event in Wuxi in October last year attracted the attention of several domestic media outlets. The news was simultaneously known to readers when the accident took place. Compared with the rapid coverage of the big media, the local media in Wuxi chose to report on the news after two days. The two different attitudes of the media on report of accident news arguably reflected the way of algorithmic news working in context of network society, where local news is accessible from more and more different sources, and where transparency and accountability shall be kept as key tenet of journalism ethics. This paper criticized the local media in Wuxi by elucidated its limitation in aware of accident news as algorithmic as reportable from a series of layers such as immediacy, newsworthy, interactive mode, etc. It also suggests that the challenge of using algorithms is to develop journalistic professionalism, including critique, the use of transparency and concern for public opinions.

Highlights

  • The network society is opening up new frontiers and transforming journalism in ways that nobody can predict

  • The two different attitudes of the media on report of accident news arguably reflected the way of algorithmic news working in context of network society, where local news is accessible from more and more different sources, and where transparency and accountability shall be kept as key tenet of journalism ethics

  • The topic of this article is about the use of algorithm in doing local journalism, and it takes the 2019 Bridge Collapse in Wuxi as an example

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Introduction

The network society is opening up new frontiers and transforming journalism in ways that nobody can predict. Newsroom uses intelligent methods and technologies to increase the scope of searching for news and improve the quality of news stories, making messages more accurate by editing them based on data (Cui & Wu, 2019) such as Newspad, a US start-up, provides 21st-century radar system for news organizations in the States to help media search more reporting

Tang et al DOI
Media Reportage on Wuxi Bridge Collapse in 2019
Accountability: A Journalistic Use of Algorithm in Doing Local Journalism
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