Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: Impacts of journalistic values, reflected in online news features, on readers' news selections were investigated. In a web-based field experiment, 366 German and American participants browsed through online news. The displayed articles were associated with different levels of newsworthiness (number of topic-related articles), credibility (sources' credibility established in a pretest), and recency (time span since report's upload). While newsworthiness perceptions did not increase with number of related articles in linear fashion, perceived high newsworthiness resulted in longer news exposure times. A complex interaction revealed that impacts of credibility on news consumption depended on cultural setting and frequency of online news reading. Recency only influenced American news readers.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: A random sample of news editors and directors assessed a triangle of factors-- news credibility, news control and news sources—in their news decisions on embedded reporting. This study, coupled with qualitative data, surveys the perceptions of the nation’s news decision-makers. It examines what mattered the most to them in embedded journalism. Support was found for a matrix of factors affecting embedded journalism practice, and particularly individual level of factors, i.e., professional background, individual characteristics, professional roles, routine practices, even during war time. National news sources, particularly, newspapers, and affiliate news outlets and the Associated Press were perceived to be the prominent players. Respondents considered accuracy, reliability and fairness as significant in the credibility of embedded news reports. This study suggests an important consideration for embedded journalists’ reporting and offers an insight for public information officials in their strategic approach to embedded journalists.

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Abstract: This study builds the constructs of three kinds (four types) of gated news to explore how online users pay attention to three online mainstream news sites by defining online users from marketing and democrat perspectives. Editors’ news cues and people-gated news cues are examined in explaining online users’ most popular news attention. The results show that editors’ news cues and most popular news cues significantly explain online users’ news attention.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: This study examined the influence of communication technology on agenda setting by comparing the media agenda of newspapers, television, and online media. The media agenda data were identified by the issue salience in these media. The results of the study indicate a significant difference of issue hierarchy among these media.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: For at least the past three decades journalism scholars have focused on two types of news – soft and hard – without reassessing these categories or adding to them. The present article investigates whether such neglect is warranted, through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews with 32 journalists and editors from the three main Israeli dailies: Yediot Ahronot, Maariv, Haaretz. The findings argue strongly for a third, intermediate category of news – 'general news' – as well as for a more rigorous and comprehensive definition of 'hard' news and 'soft' news that are here supplied. These three news categories were then tested on 465 news items of the above dailies which led to the categorization of a new newspaper type, lying somewhere between the elite and populist press. Methodological and substantive ramifications of this addition are discussed.