Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.

Media attention is a key political resource for protesters. This implies that journalists are a crucial audience to which protesters seek to appeal. We study to what extent features of protest, of journalists, and of news organizations affect journalists' news judgment. We exposed 78 Spanish jo...

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Autores: Cristancho, Camilo, Wouters, Ruud
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:Moviments de protesta
Periodistes
Criteri
Protest movements
Journalists
Judgment
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title Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
spellingShingle Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
Cristancho, Camilo
Moviments de protesta
Periodistes
Criteri
Protest movements
Journalists
Judgment
title_short Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
title_full Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
title_fullStr Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
title_full_unstemmed Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
title_sort Protesters at the news gates: An experimental study of journalists' news judgment of protest events.
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Cristancho, Camilo
Wouters, Ruud
author Cristancho, Camilo
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Wouters, Ruud
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Moviments de protesta
Periodistes
Criteri
Protest movements
Journalists
Judgment
topic Moviments de protesta
Periodistes
Criteri
Protest movements
Journalists
Judgment
description Media attention is a key political resource for protesters. This implies that journalists are a crucial audience to which protesters seek to appeal. We study to what extent features of protest, of journalists, and of news organizations affect journalists' news judgment. We exposed 78 Spanish journalists to vignettes of asylum seeker protests. Four features were systematically manipulated: protesters' worthiness, unity, numbers, and commitment (WUNC). The experiments scrutinize the extent to which journalists consider a protest newsworthy (presence) and the likelihood that a protest is featured on a newspaper's front page (prominence). Our results show that in terms of media presence, high turnout is key. Highly unified protesters, in contrast, are considered less newsworthy. Regarding prominence, strongly committed demonstrators more easily make it to the frontpage. Individual characteristics of journalists have no direct effect on news judgment. Journalists' editorial status and ideological (outlet) placement only moderate the effect of some of the protest features, although in terms of front-page placement a more potent adversary versus ally effect is distinguished.
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