
Towards more balanced news access? A study on the impact of cost-cutting and Web 2.0 on the mediated public sphere
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- Sarah Van Leuven (UGent) , Annelore Deprez (UGent) and Karin Raeymaeckers (UGent)
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- Abstract
- In order to assess the impact of cost-cutting and digitalization on the expansion or contraction of the mediated public sphere, we developed a quantitative and longitudinal content analysis focused on sourcing practices for foreign news reporting in four Belgian newspapers (1995-2010). The results show little to no shift in the news access of different types of sources. Political sources dominate foreign news output, but ordinary citizens also play a significant role. Although it becomes clear that Belgian journalists often do not explicitly mention their use of news agency copy, recycled news articles or PR material, our findings indicate that concerns about cost-cutting in newsrooms or sanguinity about the democratic potential of Web 2.0 seem fairly exaggerated, at least in the Belgian context.
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- public sphere, news access, cost-cutting, churnalism, digitalization, Web 2.0, content analysis, social media, network journalism, sourcing practices
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-4126401
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- Van Leuven, Sarah, et al. “Towards More Balanced News Access? A Study on the Impact of Cost-Cutting and Web 2.0 on the Mediated Public Sphere.” JOURNALISM, vol. 15, no. 7, 2014, pp. 850–67, doi:10.1177/1464884913501837.
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- Van Leuven, S., Deprez, A., & Raeymaeckers, K. (2014). Towards more balanced news access? A study on the impact of cost-cutting and Web 2.0 on the mediated public sphere. JOURNALISM, 15(7), 850–867. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913501837
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- Van Leuven, Sarah, Annelore Deprez, and Karin Raeymaeckers. 2014. “Towards More Balanced News Access? A Study on the Impact of Cost-Cutting and Web 2.0 on the Mediated Public Sphere.” JOURNALISM 15 (7): 850–67. https://doi.org/10.1177/1464884913501837.
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- Van Leuven, Sarah, Annelore Deprez, and Karin Raeymaeckers. 2014. “Towards More Balanced News Access? A Study on the Impact of Cost-Cutting and Web 2.0 on the Mediated Public Sphere.” JOURNALISM 15 (7): 850–867. doi:10.1177/1464884913501837.
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- 1.Van Leuven S, Deprez A, Raeymaeckers K. Towards more balanced news access? A study on the impact of cost-cutting and Web 2.0 on the mediated public sphere. JOURNALISM. 2014;15(7):850–67.
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- [1]S. Van Leuven, A. Deprez, and K. Raeymaeckers, “Towards more balanced news access? A study on the impact of cost-cutting and Web 2.0 on the mediated public sphere,” JOURNALISM, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 850–867, 2014.
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