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May 3, 2021 · Here, the boundaries of news and journalism are increasingly blurred, leaving news as an ill-defined concept. Against the backdrop of the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in the United States, the killing of George Floyd, and subsequent nationwide protests, it is posited that this time of crisis provides an apt opportunity to examine the definition of news as US audiences orient ...
- Craig T. Robertson
- 2021
Mar 1, 2016 · The deceptively simple question “What is news?” remains pertinent even as we ponder the future of journalism in the digital age. This article examines news values within mainstream journalism and considers the extent to which news values may be changing since earlier landmark studies were undertaken.
- Tony Harcup, Deirdre O’Neill
- 2017
May 14, 2020 · A by-product of today’s hybrid media system is that genres—once uniformly defined and enforced—are now murky and contested. We develop the concept of news-ness, defined as the extent to which audiences characterize specific content as news, to capture how audiences understand and process media messages.
- Stephanie Edgerly, Emily K. Vraga
- 2020
Mar 5, 2018 · Kevin Ells is associate professor of mass communication at Texas A&M University – Texarkana and 2015 Fulbright Scholar in Communication to Azerbaijan. His research centers on communication education and environmental communication. Current communication textbooks proffer conflicting, vague, or incomplete definitions of the core concepts of ...
- Kevin Ells
- 2019
May 31, 2018 · This gripping question that sociologist Herbert Gans first asked in his seminal 1979 book, Deciding What’s News, is now more relevant than ever.The concept of mass communication has changed significantly since Dr. Gans conducted his ethnography of newsrooms to discover how producers of news define and select news that is communicated via mass media.
- Donnalyn Pompper, Lindsay Hoffman
- 2018
3 days ago · Search for: 'news' in Oxford Reference ». In the mass media, formal reports of events considered likely to be significant to the target audience which are normally broadcast or published soon after information about them becomes available. As a genre in any medium, news is generally expected to be referential and informational communication ...
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May 21, 2014 · The concept of news. 'The Concept of News' was the title of a symposium organised by The Newsreel Network and held over 20-21 May at the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen. The Newsreel Network is a collection of scholars interested in newsreel research, convened by the University of Lund in Sweden, newsreels being a common feature of cinema ...
