Online news readers get different news mix than print

Newspaper Research Journal

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 48-62

  Maier, Scott R ^a   Tucker, Staci ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

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EID: 84902454723     PISSN: 07395329     EISSN: 23764791     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/073953291203300405     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Thomas E. Patterson, Creative Destruction: An Exploratory Look at the News on the Internet (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University, 2007), 3.
2. See, for example, Barry Hollander, “Local Government News Drives Print Readership,” Newspaper Research Journal 31, no. 4 (fall 2010): 6-16
3. Don Heider, Maxwell McCombs, and Paula Poindexter, “What the Public Expects of Local News: Views on Public and Traditional Journalism,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 82, no. 4 (winter 2005): 952-967; 953.
4. Pew Project for Excellence in Journalism, “The State of the News Media 2011: Major Trends,” StateoftheMedia.org, March 15,2011, .
5. The Pew Research Center for the People and the Press, “How Many Would Shrug if Their Local Newspaper Closed,” StateoftheMedia.org, March 12, 2009, (Mar. 12, 2009).
6. The nation’s top four news websites (Yahoo! News, MSNBC.com, CNN.com and AOL News) in 2008 experienced a 22 percent increase in unique visitors to 23.6 million a month. This is a rate increase twice that of 2007 and more than five times the rate of 2006. Project for Excellence in Journalism, “Online - Audience,” StateoftheMedia.org, 2009, (Mar. 23, 2009).
7. Kevin G. Barnhurst, “The Internet and News,” (paper presented at the Political Gommunication Division, International Gommunication Association, Chicago, 111., May 2009).
8. Also see Kevin G. Barnhurst, “Technology and the Changing Idea of News,” International Journal of Gommunication 4 (2010), 1082-1099.
9. Quoted by the Associated Press in Michael Liedtke, “Study: Newspapers Still A Step Ahead in Local News,” The Seattle Times, January 17, 2010, .
10. Michelle Nicolosi, “Executive Producer Michelle Nicolosi talks about the new SeattlePI. com,” The Seattle PI, March 15, 2009, .
11. 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 Goncept of Powerful Mass Media,” Studies of Broadcasting 9 (1973): 67-112
12. David Manning White, “The Gatekeeper: A Gase Study in the Selection of News,” Journalism Quarterly 27, no. 3 (fall 1950): 383-390
13. Max E. McGombs and Donald Shaw, “The Agenda-Setting Function of the Mass Media,” Public Opinion Quarterly 36, no. 2 (summer 1972): 176-187.
14. Daniel Riffe, Brenda Ellis, Momo K. Rogers, Roger L. Van Ommeren and Kieran A. Woodman, “Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix,” Journalism Quarterly 63, no. 2 (summer 1986): 315-21.
15. See, for example, Steven H. Ghaffee and Miriam Metzger, “The End of Mass Gommunication?” Mass Communication & Society 4, no. 4 (autumn 2001): 365-79
16. Barry A. Hollander, “Tuning Out or Tuning Elsewhere? Partisanship, Polarization, and Media Migration from 1998 to 2006,” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 85, no. 1 (spring 2008): 23-40
17. David Tewksbury, “The Seeds of Audience Fragmentation: Specialization in the Use of Online News Sites,” Journalism of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 49, no. 3 (December 2005): 332-48.
18. Steven H. Ghaffee and Miriam Metzger, “The End of Mass Gommunication?” Mass Communication & Society 4, no. 4 (autumn 2001): 365-79.
19. See, for example, Guido H. Stempel III, “Gatekeeping: The Mix of Topics and Selection of Stories,” Journalism Quarterly 62, no. 4 (winter 1985): 791-815
20. Daniel Riffe, Brenda Ellis, Momo K. Rogers, Roger L. Van Ommeren, and Kirean A. Woodman, “Gatekeeping and the Network News Mix”
21. Guido H. Stempel III, “Topic and Story Ghoice of Five Network Newscasts,” Journalism Quarterly 65, no. 3 (fall 1988): 750-752
22. Daniel Riffe, “Gonflict and Gonsonance: Goverage of Third World in Two U.S. Papers,” Journalism Quarterly 59, no. 4 (winter 1982): 617-626.
23. Scott R. Maier, “Newspapers Offer More News Than Do Major Online Sites,” Newspaper Research Journal 31, no. 1 (winter 2010): 6-19.
24. Marion Just, Todd Belt and Ann Grigler, “New Media, Old Media: The Same Old Story?” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Social Science Association, Boston, Mass., August 2008).
25. Scott R. Maier, “All the News Fit to Post? Gomparing News Gontent on the Web to Newspapers, Television and Radio,” Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly 87, nos. 3/4 (autumn/winter 2010): 548-562; 557.
26. Project for Excellence in Journalism, “About the News Goverage Index,” Journalism.org, March 23,2009, . We express our appreciation to Tom Rosenstiel and the staff of the Project for Excellence in Journalism for their cooperatíon and guidance in development of this study. However, we also acknowledge that the PEJ bears no responsibility for interpretations presented or conclusions reached based on analysis of the data.
27. Project for Excellence in Journalism, “About the News Goverage Index,” Journalism.org, March 23,2009, . We express our appreciation to Tom Rosenstiel and the staff of the Project for Excellence in Journalism for their cooperatíon and guidance in development of this study. However, we also acknowledge that the PEJ bears no responsibility for interpretations presented or conclusions reached based on analysis of the data.
28. Michael R. Fancher, “Seattle: A New Media Gase Study,” StateoftheNewsMedia.org, March 15, 2011, .
29. See, for example. Chuck Taylor, “Woe is the Future of Newspapers - Not,” Crosscut.com, April 10, 2007, .
30. Fancher, “Seattle: A New Media Case Study.”
31. Carol Marie Cropper, “Speedier StarTrib Rules Roost in Minneapolis,” NetNewsCheck.com, April 27, 2011, .
32. The Star Tribune was ranked the 15th largest newspaper in the nation, and tenth based on circulation. The online Star Tribune was rated No. 1 in the nation in time spent by visitors on newspaper websites, according to the Nielsen Net Ratings (August 2009), http://ww2.startribune.com/digitalmediakit/massreach.php.
33. PEJ’s methodology is discussed in greater detail at http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2008/methodology.php
34. See Patricia A. Curtin, Elizabeth Dougall and Rachel Davis Mersey, “Study Compares Yahoo! News Story Preferences,” Newspaper Research Journal 28, no. 4 (fall 2007): 22-35; Maier, “Newspapers Offer More News.”
35. See American Journalism Review, “Retreating from the World,” AJR.org, December/January 2011, . Over the past quarter century, foreign news in newspaper dailies examined by AJR fell 53 percent. Also see American Journalism Review, “Shrinking Foreign Coverage,” AJR.org, December/January 2011, .