All the news fit to post? Comparing news content on the web to newspapers, television, and radio

Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 87, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 548-562

  Maier, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNET; MASS MEDIA; MEDIA ROLE; TELEVISION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 78651422122     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769901008700307     Document Type: Article

References (53)

1. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "Press Alert," The State of the News Media: An Annual Report on American Journalism, March 23, 2009, http://www.stateofthenewsmedia.com/2009/press-online.php.
2. See, for example, John Nichols and Robert McChesney, "The Death and Life of Great American Newspapers," The Nation, April 6, 2009. Available online at http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090406/nichols-mcchesney?rel=hp-picks.
3. For further discussion on how the Web potentially affects agenda setting, see Maxwell McCombs, "A Look at Agenda-setting: Past, Present and Future," Journalism Studies 6 (November 2005): 543-57.
4. See, for example, Steven H. Chaffee and Miriam Metzger, "The End of Mass Communication?" Mass Communication & Society 4 (autumn 2001): 365-79
5. Barry A. Hollander, "Tuning Out or Tuning Elsewhere? Partisanship, Polarization, and Media Migration from 1998 to 2006," Journalism &Mass Communication Quarterly 85 (spring 2008): 23-40
6. David Tewksbury, "The Seeds of Audience Fragmentation: Specialization in the Use of Online News Sites," Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 49 (3, 2005): 332-48.
7. Chaffee and Metzger, "The End of Mass Communication?" 375.
8. Chaffee and Metzger, "The End of Mass Communication?"
9. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, "Key News Audiences Now Blend Online and Traditional Sources," August 17,2008, http://pewresearch.org/pubs/928/key-news-audiences-now-blendonline-and- traditional-sources.
10. Also see Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Internet & American Life Project, The State of News Media (2010), April 1, 2010, http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010/online-summary-essay.php.
11. Carolyn Lin, Michael B. Salwen, and Rasha A. Abdulla, "Uses and Gratifications of Online and Offline News: New Wine in an Old Bottle?" in Online News and the Public, ed. Michael B. Salwen, Bruce Garrison, and Paul D. Driscoll (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2005), 221-36.
12. A national survey of media use in the late 1990s indicated that the Internet was not the cause of the decline in use of other media. See Guido H. Stempel III, Thomas Hargrove, and Joseph P. Bernt, "Relation of Growth of Use of the Internet to Changes in Media Use from 1995 to 1999," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 77 (spring 2000): 71-79.
13. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, "Newspapers Face a Challenging Calculus," February 26, 2009, http://pewresearch.org/ pubs/1133/decline-print-newspapers-increased-onlinenews.
14. Pew, "Key News Audiences."
15. Pew Internet and American Life Project, "New Numbers for Blogging and Blog Readership," July 22, 2008, http://www.pewinternet.org/Commentary/ 2008/July/New-numbers-for-bloggingand-blog-readership.aspx#.
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18. John Kelly, "Mapping the Blogosphere: Offering a Guide to Journalism's Future," Nieman Reports 62 (winter 2008): 37-39.
19. Jane B. Singer, "The Political J-blogger," Journalism 6 (May 2005): 173-98.
20. Stephen D. Reese, Lou Rutigliano, Kideuk Hyun, and Jaekwan Jeong, "Mapping the Blogosphere," Journalism 8 (August 2007): 235-61.
21. Lindsay H. Hoffman, "Is Internet Content Different After All? A Content Analysis of Mobilizing Information in Online and Print Newspapers," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 83 (spring 2006): 59.
22. Jane B. Singer, "The Metro Wide Web: Changes in Newspapers' Gatekeeping Role Online," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 78 (spring 2001): 65-80.
23. Scott R. Maier, "Newspapers Offer More News Than Do Major Online Sites," Newspaper Research Journal 31 (winter 2010): 6-19.
24. Marion Just, Todd Belt, and Ann Crigler, "New Media, Old Media: The Same Old Story?" (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Social Science Association, Boston, August 2008).
25. Hoffman, "Is Internet Content Different," 58-76.
26. This line of scholarship is rooted in several classic theories of mass communication: consonance, gatekeeping, and agenda setting. See Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann, "Return to the Concept of Powerful Mass Media," Studies of Broadcasting 9 (1973): 67-112
27. David Manning White, "The Gatekeeper: A Case Study in the Selection of News," Journalism Quarterly 27 (fall 1950): 383-90
28. Max E. McCombs and Donald Shaw, "The Agenda-Setting Function of the Mass Media," Public Opinion Quarterly 36 (summer 1972): 176-87.
29. See, for example, Guido H. Stempel III, "Gatekeeping: The Mix of Topics and Selection of Stories," Journalism Quarterly 62 (winter 1985): 791-815
30. Daniel Riffe, Brenda Ellis, Momo K. Rogers, Roger L. Van Ommeren, and Kieran A. Woodman, "Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix," Journalism Quarterly 63 (summer 1986): 315-21
31. Guido H. Stempel III, "Topic and Story Choice of Five Network Newscasts," Journalism Quarterly 65 (fall 1988): 750-52
32. Daniel Riffe, "Conflict and Consonance: Coverage of Third World in Two U.S. Papers," Journalism Quarterly 59 (winter 1982): 617-26.
33. Riffe et al., "Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix," 315.
34. Tewksbury, "The Seeds of Audience Fragmentation."
35. See, for example, Hollander, "Tuning Out or Tuning Elsewhere?"
36. Hollander, "Tuning Out or Turning Elsewhere?" 33-34.
37. These competing hypotheses are articulated in an article by Jae Kook Lee, "The Effect of the Internet on Homogeneity of the Media Agenda: A Test of the Fragmentation Thesis," Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 84 (winter 2007): 745-60.
38. See, for example, Chaffee and Metzger, "The End of Mass Communication?"
39. See, for example, McCombs, "A Look at Agenda-setting," 543-46.
40. Lee, "The Effect of the Internet," 745.
41. McCombs, "A Look at Agenda-setting," 545.
42. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "About the News Coverage Index," March 23, 2009, http://www.journalism.org/about-news-index/ overview.
43. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "Methodology," March 23, 2009, http://www.journalism.org/about-news-index/methodology.
44. Project for Excellence, "Methodology."
45. In intercoder reliability tests, the level of agreement for other key variables was 91% for geographic focus, 94% for story placement, and 100% for story date and media source. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "Methodology, State of the News Media 2008," http://www. stateofthemedia.org/2008/methodology.php.
46. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "New Media Index Methodology," March 23, 2009, http://www.journalism.org/commentary- backgrounder/new-media-index-methodology.
47. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "New Media Index Methodology," March 23, 2009, http://www.journalism.org/commentary- backgrounder/new-media-index-methodology.
48. This method is adapted from a technique used by the Project for Excellence in Journalism. However, the data universe differs; this study tracked news storylines, while the PEJ used a broader thematic study of news topics.
49. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "A Year in the News," The State of the News Media 2008, March 2008, http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2008/ narrative-yearinnews-intro.php?media=2.
50. McCombs, "A Look at Agenda-setting," 545.
51. Project for Excellence in Journalism, "Bloggers Ponder Every Aspect of Obama's Inauguration," New Media Index: January 19-23, 2009, http://www.journalism.org/commentary-backgrounder/bloggers-ponder-every-aspect- obama%E2%80%99s-inauguration.
52. Project for Excellence, "Bloggers Ponder."
53. Singer, "The Metro Wide Web," 77.