ONLINE FEATURE JOURNALISM

Online news and changing models of journalism

The move to Internet news publishing is the latest in a series of technological shifts which have required journalists not merely to adapt their daily practice but which have also – at least in the view of some – recast their role in society. For over a decade, proponents of the networked society as a new way of life have argued that responsibility for news selection and production will shift f...

A Chance for Diversity? Australian Online Journalism

Newsworthiness of Online News 1 Running Head: NEWSWORTHINESS INDICATORS IN ONLINE JOURNALISM An Examination of Newsworthiness Indicators in Online Journalism: A study of South Korean Online News Sites

To examine the nature of news content in online journalism, this study explores how online media define newsworthiness in covering news events. We examine the effect of organizations on the news concept with two types of online news sites portal news sites and the sties of traditional newspapers. The study used seven newsworthiness indicators as predictors of news content: statistical deviance,...

Towards a grounded theory of innovation in online journalism

Findings in recent research suggest that online journalism is much less innovative than many researchers and scholars predicted a decade ago. Research into online journalism has, however, been biased towards a focus on online news journalism, thereby neglecting the magnitude of new styles and genres that are currently emerging in online journalism. In this paper the findings of a longitudinal e...

Prediction of Average and Perceived Polarity in Online Journalism

We predicted the average and perceived journalistic objectivity in online news articles based on the text of the article and data collected on the individual user reading the article, in order to better understand both how journalistic bias relates to the text of an article alone, and how reader demographics and political leanings influence the perceived objectivity of a given article. Using su...