1. U.S. Newspaper Editors' Ratings of Social Media as Influential News Sources.
- Author
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YAMAMOTO, MASAHIRO, SEUNGAHN NAH, and CHUNG, DEBORAH S.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media ,CITIZEN journalism ,NEWSPAPER editors ,COMMUNITY organization ,BROADCAST journalism - Abstract
Social media, as one key platform for citizen journalism, are becoming a useful newsgathering tool for journalists. Based on data from a nationwide probability sample of newspaper editors in the United States, this study investigates the extent to which newspaper editors consider social media an influential news source. Results show that variations in editors' ratings of social media as a news source were related to multiple levels of influence, including professional journalistic experience, organization size, community structural pluralism, and citizen journalism credibility. Implications are discussed for the roles of social media in news production. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2017