HOW ONLINE CITIZEN JOURNALISM PUBLICATIONS AND ONLINE NEWSPAPERS UTILIZE THE OBJECTIVITY STANDARD AND RELY ON EXTERNAL SOURCES.

This research utilizes Shoemaker and Reese's Hierarchy of Influences to understand how routines influence online citizen journalism and online newspaper content. Reliance on routines affects the diversity of content publicly available. Overall, online daily newspaper journalists were more likely to rely on routines than online citizen journalists. Newspaper journalists relied more heavily on external sources, while citizen journalists used more unofficial sources and opinion. Thus, publication type is related to the presence of content that reflects media routines. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]