A softer kind of hard news? Data journalism and the digital renewal of public service news in Sweden
Autor: | Andreas Widholm, Ester Appelgren |
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Rok vydání: | 2020 |
Předmět: |
Medievetenskap
Sociology and Political Science Datafication Communication Public broadcasting 05 social sciences Media studies 050801 communication & media studies News production hard news 0506 political science public service broadcasting 0508 media and communications Data journalism service journalism Political science 050602 political science & public administration soft news Public service news production datafication Media Studies |
Zdroj: | New Media & Society. 24:1363-1381 |
ISSN: | 1461-7315 1461-4448 |
Popis: | Over the past decade, data journalism has received considerable attention among scholars, pointing to novel forms of investigative reporting as well as new daily practices of news production. This study contributes to existing scholarship by conceptualizing data journalism through distinctions between hard and soft news in relation to service journalism. We analyze news produced by specialized data desks in Swedish public service organizations over a 5-year period (2015–2019) and propose a model for how service journalism attributes can be used as a bridge between the binary categories of hard and soft in data journalism. With this model, we point to how data journalism in public service organizations challenges established notions of soft and hard news and how hybrid production practices open up new research trajectories concerning the societal significance of news in the digital age. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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