Audience Expectations and Actual Sourcing Practices in Online Journalism
Young news consumers in Finland, at least, have high expectations for the news they read online, but they are often left wanting a study claims.
Darren Ingram
Editors Versus Audiences Facing News
What does the reader want? Hard news, soft news, or general news? A major study of Spanish-language news appearing on a news aggregation service between 2006-2015 suggests that hard news is the audience’s overwhelming preference on the one hand, but when it comes to reading it then one’s preference can change!
Public Relations and Social Theory
A review of Public Relations and Social Theory: Key Figures, Concepts and Developments (2nd ed.), edited by Øyvind Ihlen & Magnus Fredriksson, was published in the Central European Journal of Communication, Spring 2019.
Web 25
A review of Web 25: histories from the first 25 years of the world wide web, edited by Niels Brügger, appeared in Information, Communication & Society, 22(8), pp. 1184–1185.
Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media
A review of Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media: Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide by Katerina Tsetsura and Dean Kruckeberg appeared in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 2019, Vol. 96(2) 1-3.
Media Logic(s) Revisited
A review of Media Logic(s) Revisited: Modelling the Interplay between Media Institutions, Media Technology and Societal Change, edited by Thimm, C., Anastasiadis, M., Einspänner-Pflock, J., was published in Mediální studia | Media Studies 2/2018.
News Brand Attribution in Distributed Environments
Do people know where the news they read comes from? That question is not necessarily as bizarre as you may think in today’s online society as news is often distributed and shared through different networks such as social media, being […]
Innovation in Public Relations Theory and Practice
Digital media, storytelling and engagement are essential features that direct the future of public relations and related communications activities, claim the authors, advocating a so-called transmedia narrative transportation (TNT) approach. Being built on existing communications theories, TNT is described as […]
Understanding Public Relations
A review of Understanding Public Relations: Theory, Culture and Society by Lee Edwards was published in the Central European Journal of Communications 11(2).
The Narrative Strategies of Winners and Losers
Words can make a difference, but are most companies making the most of the potential to shape a narrative through their choice and deployment of words? This interesting piece of research looks at annual reports from a range of U.S. […]