JOURN 3000 1st Edition Lecture 28Outline of Last LectureI. Underground PressOutline of Current LectureI. Corporate Journalism Current LectureCorporate Journalism Consolidation Relaxed ownership laws allow newspaper chains, broadcast groups to growFewer family-owned outlets, less competitionConglomeration Journalism organizations owned by large, broad corporations News Consultancies Hired by news organizations, chains to maximize market share, valueStyle and contentTV news ‘Joe Six-Pack’ Audience research Content – crime, police, children and pets, celebrities, and team coverage of fleeting eventsDigital JournalismComputers in newsroomsMake traditional tasks easierThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute.Computer-Assisted Reporting (CAR)Digital journalism productsVideotex, teletext in 1980sProdigy, TrintexLocal online news sites, such as NandoWorld Wide Web and NewsBy the mid-1990s most news organizations have web presence; use shovelware approach New, online only sites; e.g., Salon Aggregators – AOL, Drudge, Yahoo, late 1990sUSENET; Weblogs in late 1990sUser-generated contentOutlet proliferation, accessibilityDigital Journalism EraInstitutional hierarchy of mainstream and ancillary news media is upset Gatekeeping authority challenged Deinstitutionalization of journalismRise of quasi-journalistic actorsDecoupling of journalism and advertisingEvolving notions of objectivityA changing view of science Karl Popper: reality cannot be perceived apart from presuppositionsPopper: hence, methods should be disclosedObjectivity … “is a trust mechanism you rely on when your medium can’t do links”‘Transparency’ as the new objectivity Marketplace of ideasA diversity of voicesCompeting ‘truth claims’Marketplace as procedure Channels of amplification –mainstream media, non-mainstream media, social
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