Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism 301D, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism G6, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281, USA Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles,...

We describe the power and potential of data journalism, where news stories are reported and published with data and dynamic visualizations. We discuss the challenges facing data journalism today and how recent data management tools such as Google Fusion Tables have helped in the newsroom. We then describe some of the challenges that need to be addressed in order for data journalism to reach its...

Journalists and technologists increasingly are organizing and collaborating, both formally and informally, across major news organizations and via grassroots networks on an international scale. This intersection of so-called ‘hacks and hackers’ carries with it a shared interest in finding technological solutions for news, particularly through opensource software programming. This article critic...

The article rescues and analyzes the work done in 1960 by Antonio Gómez Alfaro, the first Spanish author that carried out a study on relations between journalism and literature using a multidiscipline perspective. The tradition documents the emergence of comparative approaches at the end of the 1990s, but the revision of Gómez Alfaro’s proposal is an exceptional advance, because this intellectu...

Digitization and contemporary use of social media platforms is changing how we perceive and use IT, both in organizations and as citizens or consumers. These developments have also transformed and changed many industries, bringing both opportunities and challenges. One industry that was affected by digitization relatively early is the media industry, leading to studies on online journalism, gat...

The question of abusing the opportunity of participatory online journalism through the use of offensive speech has generally been neglected in scholarly research. This study tries to fill this research gap by uncovering the characteristics of offensive speech in comments under online news items as well as journalists’ and editors’ opinions on offensive speech. A textual analysis of comments con...

The article seeks the roots of the journalistic concept of objectivity in various theoretical schools. It argues that the concept of objectivity in journalism originates in the positivistic tradition and, furthermore, that it is strongly related to tan earlier theoretical school within historiography. Journalism has made several attempts have been made by journalism to break free of the positiv...

Journalism ethics theorizing is increasingly preoccupied with identifying and articulating universal norms and standards for media systems across various cultures. This study offers an empirical contribution to this topic by examining the ethical orientations of journalists in 18 countries. Country-level, or ideological, factors, rather than individuallevel variables, appear to have the greates...

The study aims to identify the motives of journalists' reluctance practice investigative journalism. researcher relies on method codified interview and questionnaire in order main that prevent journalists from practicing journalism analyse depth after collecting sufficient information. uses descriptive research method, which is concerned with studying current facts related nature a particular p...

This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view access theory as it is reflected selected sociological anthropological literature on ethnography production. Next, show how these theoretical can be applied to study press releases particularly linguistic pragmatic analysis specific social textual practices ...