Journalists' networks: Homophily and peering over the shoulder of other journalists.

ABSTRACT: Social media plays an important role in how journalists gather and report news. To understand journalists' professional environment, we examine the networks of journalists on Twitter who cover politics for U.S. newspapers in conjunction with a sample of journalists who completed a survey. By combining both their network data and survey responses, we examine the distribution of journalists' ideology (n = 264) and journalistic values (n = 247); and using the network data, we examine the directional relationships between journalists working at large and small papers (n = 4,661). We find that journalists tend to form connections with those who share similar journalistic values. However, we find little evidence that journalists build professional relationships based on similarity in political i

SUBMITTER: Li Q 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10584149 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature