Twitter as a news source:How Dutch and British newspapers used tweets in their news coverage, 2007–2011

Twitter has become a convenient, cheap and effective beat for journalists in search of news and information. Reporters today increasingly aggregate information online and embed it in journalism discourse. In this paper, we analyse how tweets have increasingly been included as quotes in newspaper reporting during the rise of Twitter from 2007 to 2011. The paper compares four Dutch and four British national tabloids and broadsheets, asking if tabloid journalists are relying more on this second-hand coverage than their colleagues from quality papers. Moreover, we investigate in which sections of... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Broersma, M.J.
Graham, T.S.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
Reihe/Periodikum: Broersma , M J & Graham , T S 2013 , ' Twitter as a news source : How Dutch and British newspapers used tweets in their news coverage, 2007–2011 ' , Journalism Practice , vol. 7 , no. 4 , pp. 446-464 . https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2013.802481
Schlagwörter: Mass communications / News Reporting / Newspapers / United Kingdom / Netherlands / Social Media / Sources / Twitter / Content Analysis / JOURNALISM / Journalism Practice / journalism studies / media studies / Digital Media / COMMUNICATION / ONLINE COMMUNICATION / New Media / News Coverage / news production / Journalists / NEWS / Online News / Online Journalism / CONVERGENCE
Sprache: Englisch
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