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Still Guarding The Gate? The Newspaper Journalist's Role In An On-Line World, Jane Singer
Still Guarding The Gate? The Newspaper Journalist's Role In An On-Line World, Jane Singer
Jane B. Singer
As more and more newspapers begin to deliver stories in electronic forms, journalists are re-examining their traditional roles in a world of exponentially expanding information. Most of the metro reporters and editors interviewed during a trio of USA case studies in the summer and early autumn of 1995 believe their function as gatekeepers remains vital, but they see it as being modified to encompass a need for interpretation and quality control. Their role becomes less about selecting stories for dissemination and more about bolstering the value of what they disseminate so that it rises to the crest of the information …
Changes And Consistencies: Newspaper Journalists Contemplate An Online Future, Jane Singer
Changes And Consistencies: Newspaper Journalists Contemplate An Online Future, Jane Singer
Jane B. Singer
Explores the attitudes of metro reports and editors in the United States toward changes in the media through which they provide information to readers. Concerns about the way in which journalists are integrating these changes not only in their daily routines but also in their perceptions of their own roles, skills and values; Documentation of two related questions that guided this attitude assessment study
A New Front Line In The Battle For Readers? Online Coverage Of The 1996 Election By Denver's Competing Newspapers, Jane Singer
A New Front Line In The Battle For Readers? Online Coverage Of The 1996 Election By Denver's Competing Newspapers, Jane Singer
Jane B. Singer
The _Denver Post_ and _Rocky Mountain News_ have been fiercely at war for 100 years. In the fall of 1996, the two papers got their first shot at trying to outgun each other in online political coverage. This exploratory study analyzes the print and Web versions of the two papers during the campaign season to determine how they handled the opportunities and challenges of cyberspace; interviews with their online editors provide insight into why things were the way they were this time around.
The Revolutionary, The Traditionalist And The Realist, Jane Singer
The Revolutionary, The Traditionalist And The Realist, Jane Singer
Jane B. Singer
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