Quality Of News Research Articles

Interested in Diversity

Using survey evidence from the Netherlands, we explore the factors that influence news readers’ attitudes toward news personalization. We show that the value of personalization depends on commonly overlooked factors, such as concerns about a shared news sphere, and the depth and diversity of recommendations. However, these expectations are not universal. Younger, less educated users have little exposure to non-personalized news, and they also show little concern about diverse news recommendations. We discuss the policy implications of our findings. We show that quality news organizations that pursue reader loyalty and trust have a strong incentive to implement personalization algorithms that help them achieve these particular goals by taking into account diversity expecting user attitudes and providing high quality recommendations. Diversity-valuing news readers are thus well placed to be served by diversity-enhancing recommender algorithms. However, some users are in danger of being left out of this positive feedback loop. We make specific policy suggestions regarding how to address the issue of diversity-reducing feedback loops, and encourage the development of diversity-enhancing ones.

Quality of online news reporting of suicidal behavior in Bangladesh against World Health Organization guidelines.

Suicide is a major, however under attended public health problem in Bangladesh. There is dearth of research regarding how newspapers communicate it to the mass population. We assessed the quality of online newspapers reporting of suicidal behaviors in Bangladesh against World Health Organization suicide reporting guidelines. We searched and scrutinized published contents of 8 Bangla online news portals against the World Health Organization suicide reporting guidelines retrospectively. About 85% of the reports were connected to suicide, 93% reported single suicide, single person was involved in 82.50% of reports, and associated homicide was found in 7.50% of reports. About 96% of reports mentioned the name of the victims, 97% mentioned occupation, 96% mentioned method of suicide, 69% mentioned life events, and 64% reported certain mono-causality. Suicide in headline was found in about 94% of reports, 19% mentioned method in headline and 32% reported life events in headline. About 14% reports posted images of victims and no article provided any potentially helpful reporting practices. Media reports of suicidal behavior in Bangladesh in online portal were found to be poor quality when assessed against WHO suicide reporting guidelines. Details of victims, methods, life events and mono-causal explanations were being mentioned regularly. Substantial lacking has been noticed in approaches of educating the population and introducing preventive measures in the reports.

Journalists' Experiences with Using Nurses as Sources in Health News Stories.

This qualitative study employed a snowball sampling technique to obtain a sample of 10 health journalists. One-to-one semistructured telephone interviews using open-ended questions were conducted and recorded, and thematic analysis was performed on the transcripts. Analysis of the transcripts revealed an overarching theme of biases about women, nurses, and positions of authority in health care among journalists, newsrooms, and public relations staff in health care organizations and universities that impeded journalists' use of diverse sources in health reporting. Subthemes were that 1) when used as sources, nurses can enrich a story; 2) health journalists don't understand the range of nurses' roles, work, and education; 3) health journalists don't know how to find nurses to interview for news stories and have little time to do so; 4) communications staff of health care organizations and universities aren't offering nurses as sources; 5) editorial biases, policies, and processes can get in the way of journalists using nurses as sources; and 6) nurses and the nursing profession aren't strategic about engaging journalists. Because nurses as sources can enhance the quality of health news, health journalists should become more aware of their biases and strive to include more nurses, as well as more women and people of color overall, in their stories. Nurses and nursing organizations can do more to reach out to journalists and public relations staff to raise awareness of nurses' expertise.

News, Ads, Chats, and Property Rights over Algorithms

The success of tech firms rests on their ownership of the algorithms for operating new platforms for the interactions among five groups of stakeholders in the markets of news, ads, and chats: stakeholders from the spheres of politics, journalism, the citizenry, the tech firms themselves, and other firms. Recent regulations that touch on property rights such as the German Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz and the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Market have turned ownership of algorithms into exclusive ownership. Thereby tech firms obtain also the right to censor and the exclusive right to micro-target clients for advertisers. Coase’s theorem is used to discuss alternative allocations of property rights that could improve the quality of news, ads, and chats.

News Verification Suite: Towards System Design to Supplement Reporters’ and Editors’ Judgements

This paper offers a conceptual basis and describes elements for a multi-layered system to provide information users (newsreaders) with credible information and improve the work processes of the online news (content) producers. I overview criteria of excellence (what editors consider newsworthy) and how reporters (and traditional newsroom professionals used to) verify information to provide high quality of news. I compare the “traditional model of journalism” to the current journalistic practices of “news sharing a.s.a.p.” and identify certain processes that are currently either missing or could be complemented with automatic verification functions, capitalizing on Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Data-Mining (DM).

News quality and parity of information for protagonists and sources

El concepte de qualitat de les noticies s’enten com a sinonim de professionalitat. No obstant aixo, no apareix lligat al genere de la informacio ni a la paritat informativa. Aquesta analisi preten establir la relacio entre la qualitat de les noticies i el genere de la informacio, atenent als protagonistes de les noticies i a les fonts informatives. Es mesurara la qualitat de les noticies dels mitjans en eusquera per comparar-ne el resultat de manera segregada per generes (tant dels protagonistes com de les fonts). D’aquesta manera, es podra valorar quines variables resulten decisives en la relacio entre la qualitat de les noticies i la paritat informativa.

The Digital Transformation of News Media and the Rise of Disinformation and Fake News

This report contains an overview of the relevant economic research literature on the digital transformation of news markets and the impact on the quality of news. It compares various definitions of fake news, including false news and other types of disinformation and finds that there is no consensus on this. It presents some survey data on consumer trust and quality perceptions of various sources of online news that indicate relatively high trust in legacy printed and broadcasted news publishers and lower trust in algorithm-driven news distribution channels such as aggregators and social media. Still, two thirds of consumers access news via these channels. More analytical empirical evidence on the online consumption of genuine and fake news shows that strong newspaper brands continue to attract large audiences from across the political spectrum for direct access to newspaper websites. Real news consumption on these sites dwarfs fake news consumption. Fake news travels faster and further on social media sites. Algorithm-driven news distribution platforms have reduced market entry costs and widened the market reach for news publishers and readers. At the same time, they separate the role of content editors and curators of news distribution. The latter becomes algorithm-driven, often with a view to maximize traffic and advertising revenue. That weakens the role of trusted editors as quality intermediaries and facilitates the distribution of false and fake news content. It might lead to news market failures. News distribution platforms have recently become aware of the need to correct for these potential failures. Non-regulatory initiatives such as fact-checking, enhanced media literacy and news media codes of conduct can also contribute.

Marketing of luxury events. Case study on the tenth Congress of anti-aging medicine, Bucharest, 2018

Abstract Medicine and the pharmaceutical industry have a long and rich history of events. The transition from magic to modern medication was gradually achieved over thousands of years of evolution. Ambroise Pare, a French anatomist and surgeon from the 16th century, stated that it was very simple: “The doctor cares, God heals.” The medical-industrial complex appears to grow much faster than the economic power. And this is because the system is oriented not only by the demand, but also by doctors who play a double role. They offer medical services and, at the same time, they control their need (demand). Along with human and technological evolution, in some countries of the world, medicine can be inaccessible, perhaps untouchable or it is even considered to be a luxury. In this case, luxury is presented in the form of rationality that draws the medical world at various congresses, where the only words that can characterize the event are: the performance, high-class, luxury and international reputation of the doctors or of the speakers. This article briefly outlines the results of a qualitative marketing research among medical congress organizers-social events where high-quality marketing blends nicely with the quality of modern medicine news and perspectives, thus forming a clearer picture of the tradition and the priorities of topics chosen for medical events. The result of the research is reflected in the sketch of a program of such an event in Romania, combining the high scientific performance with social elements that can significantly increase the attractiveness of such a manifestation. In order to obtain a conclusive feedback, a useful tool is also developed and accessible to the organizers. The bibliography supports theoretically the concepts with which it operates (event marketing, the significance of high-class professional performance and the specific coordinates of the medical sector).

PROPORSIONALITAS WARTAWAN TELEVISI LOKAL DI BATU TV

Abstract This study aims to determine the extent to which the professionalism of TV journalists to process information to become a debate of opinion for the local community about local phenomena. The process of producing is important to provide good content to the public. The good is presented by journalists who understand and adhere to the journalist's code of ethics. Because journalists are professionals who work based on rules or code of ethics journalism an operational handle to maintain public confidence, uphold integrity and professionalism. The performance of journalists must uphold the code of ethics of television journalists, among other things to engineer events, images or sounds to be made news (article 5 point c) and then in chapter 10 point c reads as distinguish between the facts and opinions, . It relies heavily on the quality of human resources of television journalists to produce quality news. The results obtained in the study show that Journalists at Batu TV are not free individuals who produce truth through journalistic outcomes, but rather because of the demands of corporate capitalism. Batu TV prioritizes Profit Oriented so that the is dominated by order (blockingtime). Under these circumstances, journalists are faced with a dilemma between a pure report in the journalist's code of ethics with of orders being polished for commercial demands. Keywords: Code of Ethics Journalism, News, Local Journalists DOI : https://doi.org/10.26905/nomosleca.v4i1.2073

The influence of sensationalist features in television news stories on perceived news quality and perceived sensationalism of viewers in different age groups

This study investigates whether the decreased trust in news media can be explained by the increase in sensationalism in news. To this end, an experiment was conducted in which viewers (N = 288) evaluated sensationalist versus non-sensationalist television news in terms of perceived news quality and perceived sensationalism. Each participant watched four television news stories that varied in the presence of two categories of sensationalism: arousing content and tabloid packaging. Findings showed that sensationalist television news tends to be more negatively evaluated than non-sensationalist news. In addition, critical views on arousing content appeared to be particularly visible among young and middle-aged adults. These findings suggest that the rise of sensationalist news could be an explanation of the declining trust in news media that is witnessed in a number of countries.

Means, Not an End (of the World) The Customization of News Personalization by European News Media

How do news organizations design and implement personalization technologies? This paper makes the first inquiries into this complex process by documenting and analyzing the news personalization efforts of some European news organizations. The technological ability to use complex algorithmic agents to deliver tailor made information to individuals based on digital profiles has revolutionized the business of digital information intermediation. Various personalization techniques are reasonably good at matching pieces of information (ads, goods, and services, news, etc.) to people who are the most likely to appreciate them. These techniques scale extremely well. As a result, we have witnessed the emergence of a few extremely powerful information intermediaries, such as Facebook, Amazon, Google, Netflix, Spotify who are in the business of matching information from third party sources with global audiences. In recent years, algorithmically curated information delivery also started to have an impact on the distribution of news. This development is seen both as a threat and as an opportunity for news organizations. On the one hand, as algorithmically edited platforms grew to control access to audiences, and they captured the majority of ad revenues that previously financed the production of news, personalization seems to threaten news organizations ability to directly access their audiences, control their distribution, and grow their revenues. The success of platforms, on the other hand, carries an implicit promise, that by using similar algorithmic personalization techniques, news organizations can also do something similar, and increase their audiences, their engagement, and their ad revenues. Personalization is often seen to be the ideal tool to regain control of the news distribution process and reconnect with audiences. We conducted sixteen interviews with editors, technologists, product and business managers from a dozen European quality news organizations to understand how these different professions see and interpret algorithms’ ability to help news organizations to address the challenges they face in the digital era. Our study reveals a process that is substantially different from what previous studies suggested. The design of personalized news services is part of a complex overhaul of the news business in face of all the challenges it faces regarding revenues, distribution, and legitimacy. We found that rather than seen as a panacea which would help news orgs better compete with platforms on their own turf, personalization usefulness is assessed by its ability to support the re-imagination of the news business including how news is produced, delivered, and financed.

The Role of Social Media in Providing Crisis Information in China: A Critical Evaluation of the Tianjin Fire Incident

AbstractThis paper focusses on the information asymmetry in crisis news after a serious incident in Tianjin, China, in 2015. The incident caused enormous damage and resulted in societal unrest because of the lack of reliable information from the formal media channels. Social media — micro blogs — played a major role in reporting on crisis situations. We divided netizens (i.e., the citizens of the net) into high and low types according to their information-critical level to the crisis news. The data shows information deterioration on the crisis news, related to the netizens’ information-critical level. For the traditional media there is the opportunity to use information quality distortion to make more marginal profits. This is possible only if the citizens’ information stays under a certain quality level. The result is overprovision of low quality news and high quality news driven out of the market, whereupon adverse selection (i.e., a lack of symmetric information) appears. However, by adopting a process view, we found self-correcting mechanism (i.e., dying out of rumors) of the social media communities in China. We provided a agent-base model and simulation to show that the more media exist in the market, the faster speed of the information deterioration, but also the capacity to ‘discuss’ rumors.

Paralelisme Politik Media dalam Pemberitaan Pemilu 2014
 di Indonesia

Media biases may caused by various factors. One of them is called political parallelism. Political parallelism weakens the roles of media in democratic process by becoming overly one-sided leading to low quality of news news quality. The aim of this article is to investigate the presence and effect of media political parallelism on election news during the 2014 legislative and presidential elections in Indonesia, using content analysis on news items from four print media outlets. The findings show that media with certain political parallelism display high favorability in coverage of its own affiliations.

The ‘Public Enemy’ as a Constructed Reality: Understanding the Quality of News about North Korea

The ‘Public Enemy’ as a Constructed Reality: Understanding the Quality of News about North Korea

Legal System for Endorsing Press Independency in Indonesia

Political transition of post Soeharto's authoritarian regime has been deeply influenced by a decentralised model of governance, which affected to more serious attacks to the journalism works. The extra-judicial killing, physical violence, criminalising against journalism, and other attacks through formal judicial process or other forms, included impunity system, have shown uneasy situation for journalist at field or members of the press to perform journalistic works. Violence against journalists at field in decentralised Indonesia has been more influenced by the role of political-economy contestation at the local level, rather than the influence of situation and policies at national level. The law enforcement to protect journalist at works seems easily deniable and disregarded due to law system itself that does not give significance effect. The court has been used to collapsing media, silencing opposition, retaliating, and terrorising journalism works.
 My research shows that the most targeted medias for ULAP (unjustifiable lawsuits against press) or criminalisation have been connected to its reliability, professionalism journalistic or high quality of news. On the other side, impunity has prevailed and become a dominant situation that is not merely caused by ‘external media’ factors, but also showed an ‘internal media’ factors. Avoiding the judiciary becomes phenomena that does not always relate to distrust over the judicial system, but more on a ‘forced situation’. In my presentation, I will show how this situation articulates a new configuration of political imperium which combines of free press and dominant ownership over media, plus illiberal democracy which legally allows and lets predatory system to be supreme class in the governance and other state institutions.

Objetividad no es neutralidad: la norma objetiva como método periodístico

La necesaria distancia hacia las noticias nos ha llevado a considerar objetividad, neutralidad, imparcialidad e independencia como sinónimos de equidistancia, características que nos han dirigido hacia un periodismo aséptico, basado en el modelo de confrontación entre declaraciones de dos fuentes (“she said – he said”) y que ha sido necesario corregir, precisamente, desde el concepto de objetividad. En el presente artículo, analizaremos los elementos de la objetividad como método del periodismo y estudiaremos los indicadores de análisis de contenido utilizados por la mayoría de autores internacionales para analizar la objetividad periodística. De esa manera, mediremos el grado de objetividad de noticias en diferentes medios españoles, para comprobar si la información objetiva tiene cabida en medios de izquierdas y de derechas, sin faltar al rigor periodístico

Be aware: Elevate your news evaluation: Emphasizing media literacy, one library’s initiative

The following article outlines the University of California-Merced Library’s unfolding news evaluation campaign,1 shares our strategies, and reflects on our efforts. The impetus for this campaign came when a colleague shared Vanessa Otero’s News Quality Chart, a graphic that places news sources on X and Y axes, representing quality and partisan bias.2 Otero’s work, combined with increasing public concern and conversation about the legitimacy of news, propelled my colleagues and I to start discussing how we might emphasize media literacy, especially news evaluation. We started our discussion just prior to the spring semester, and we launched our campaign a few weeks later. Though this meant limited time for planning, we wanted to capitalize on this opportunity to promote information literacy by initiating and participating in a broader campus conversation about news evaluation.

Classifying Data Journalism

The review of theoretical and empirical studies in data journalism has uncovered different conceptualisations of data journalistic artefacts. This quantitative content analysis of data-driven stories published by European quality news websites Zeit Online, Spiegel Online, The Guardian and Neue Zürcher Zeitung aims to outline universal characteristics of daily data-driven stories and to compare these findings with previous analyses of data stories and acclaimed data journalism projects. Results suggest that daily data journalism stories generally feature two visualisations that are likely to be bar charts. The majority of these visualisations are not interactive whereas maps turn out to be the most interactive type of visualisation. Data journalists rely predominantly on pre-processed data drawn from domestic governmental bodies. For the most part, data-driven stories are reports on political topics paralleling traditional news reporting. The sparsity of collaborative efforts and investigative approaches distinguishes daily data journalism from previous analyses of eclectic and elaborate data-driven projects.

Social Media and the News Industry

The growing influence of internet platforms acting as content aggregators is one of the most important challenges facing the media industry. We develop a parsimonious model to understand the impact of content bundling by a social platform. In our model consumers can access news either directly through a newspaper’s website, or indirectly through a platform, which also offers social content. Even though the platform shares revenues with newspapers whose content it publishes, content bundling harms newspapers. Its effect on news quality and news consumption depends on the media market structure and on whether the platform can personalize the content bundle.

More of the Same?

Sources are an indicator of news quality. They cue readers to the extent that journalists are invested in reporting a topic. Moreover, a diversity of sources may help readers reach more informed decisions. This study investigates the amount and diversity of sources nonprofit and for-profit news organizations use and what factors affect sourcing behaviors. Results indicate that nonprofit organizations use more, but not more diverse sources. In addition, journalists more often covering conflict and enacting roles beyond dissemination are likely to use more and more diverse sources. Increased workload, though, predicts stories with fewer and less-diverse sources.