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Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists
Social media plays an important role in how journalists gather and report news. To understand journalists’ professional environment, we examine the networks of journalists on Twitter who cover politics for U.S. newspapers in conjunction with a sample of journalists who completed a survey. By combini...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37851599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291544 |
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description | Social media plays an important role in how journalists gather and report news. To understand journalists’ professional environment, we examine the networks of journalists on Twitter who cover politics for U.S. newspapers in conjunction with a sample of journalists who completed a survey. By combining both their network data and survey responses, we examine the distribution of journalists’ ideology (n = 264) and journalistic values (n = 247); and using the network data, we examine the directional relationships between journalists working at large and small papers (n = 4,661). We find that journalists tend to form connections with those who share similar journalistic values. However, we find little evidence that journalists build professional relationships based on similarity in political ideology. Lastly, journalists at larger media outlets are more likely to be central in journalists’ Twitter networks, providing evidence that journalists look to other journalists at larger outlets for direction in news coverage. Our evidence provides unique insights into how social media illuminates journalists’ professional environment and how that environment may shape news coverage. |
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spelling | pubmed-105841492023-10-19 Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists Li, Qin Hassell, Hans J. G. Bond, Robert M. PLoS One Research Article Social media plays an important role in how journalists gather and report news. To understand journalists’ professional environment, we examine the networks of journalists on Twitter who cover politics for U.S. newspapers in conjunction with a sample of journalists who completed a survey. By combining both their network data and survey responses, we examine the distribution of journalists’ ideology (n = 264) and journalistic values (n = 247); and using the network data, we examine the directional relationships between journalists working at large and small papers (n = 4,661). We find that journalists tend to form connections with those who share similar journalistic values. However, we find little evidence that journalists build professional relationships based on similarity in political ideology. Lastly, journalists at larger media outlets are more likely to be central in journalists’ Twitter networks, providing evidence that journalists look to other journalists at larger outlets for direction in news coverage. Our evidence provides unique insights into how social media illuminates journalists’ professional environment and how that environment may shape news coverage. Public Library of Science 2023-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10584149/ /pubmed/37851599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291544 Text en © 2023 Li et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Li, Qin Hassell, Hans J. G. Bond, Robert M. Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
title | Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
title_full | Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
title_fullStr | Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
title_full_unstemmed | Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
title_short | Journalists’ networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
title_sort | journalists’ networks: homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10584149/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37851599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291544 |
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