TY - JOUR
T1 - Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television
AU - Mellado, Claudia
AU - Blanchett, Nicole
AU - Stępińska, Agnieszka
AU - Mothes, Cornelia
AU - Lecheler, Sophie
AU - Blanco-Herrero, David
AU - Chen, Yi Ning Katherine
AU - A. Cohen, Akiba
AU - Davydov, Sergey
AU - De Maio, Mariana
AU - Dingerkus, Filip
AU - Elhamy, Hassam
AU - Garcés-Prettel, Miguel
AU - Gousset, Cyriac
AU - C. Hallin, Daniel
AU - Humanes, María Luisa
AU - Himma-Kadakas, Marju
AU - Kozman, Claudia
AU - Lee, Misook
AU - Lin, Christi I.Hsuan
AU - Márquez-Ramírez, Mireya
AU - Maza-Córdova, Jorge
AU - McGuinness, Kieran
AU - McIntyre, Karen
AU - Mick, Jacques
AU - Milojevic, Ana
AU - Navarro, Cristina
AU - Olivera, Dasniel
AU - Pizarro, Marcela
AU - Sarasqueta, Gonzalo
AU - Silke, Henry
AU - Skjerdal, Terje
AU - Stanziano, Anna
AU - Szabó, Gabriella
AU - VanLeuven, Sarah
AU - Zhao, Xin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Role Performance (JRP) project, this article reports the findings of a content analysis of 148,474 stories produced by 365 media organizations from 37 countries, comparing the performance of journalistic roles in online newsrooms to three other types of media—TV, radio, and print. The paper analyzes if journalistic roles present themselves differently across platforms, and if these differences are constant or they vary across countries. Results show that there are measurable differences in role performance in online journalism compared to other platforms. Platform had a significant impact, particularly in terms of service and infotainment orientation, while the implementation of roles oriented toward public service was more similar. Additionally, country differences in the relationship between role performance and platforms mainly emerged for roles that enable political influence on news coverage, with differences in the relationship between online vs. traditional platforms appearing to be distinct features of the specific political system.
AB - The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Role Performance (JRP) project, this article reports the findings of a content analysis of 148,474 stories produced by 365 media organizations from 37 countries, comparing the performance of journalistic roles in online newsrooms to three other types of media—TV, radio, and print. The paper analyzes if journalistic roles present themselves differently across platforms, and if these differences are constant or they vary across countries. Results show that there are measurable differences in role performance in online journalism compared to other platforms. Platform had a significant impact, particularly in terms of service and infotainment orientation, while the implementation of roles oriented toward public service was more similar. Additionally, country differences in the relationship between role performance and platforms mainly emerged for roles that enable political influence on news coverage, with differences in the relationship between online vs. traditional platforms appearing to be distinct features of the specific political system.
KW - Professional roles
KW - TV
KW - comparative studies
KW - news platforms
KW - online media
KW - print
KW - radio
KW - role performance
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85158984372&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/21670811.2023.2191332
DO - 10.1080/21670811.2023.2191332
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85158984372
SN - 2167-0811
VL - 12
SP - 376
EP - 399
JO - Digital Journalism
JF - Digital Journalism
IS - 3
ER -