How do legacy and digital media curate coronavirus content. An assessment of newsletters from the USA and four European countries

This study focuses on the curation of newsletters specialized in Covid-19 news from the mass media of France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The newsletters of 21 media outlets -15 traditional and six digital natives- were studied during the peaks of the pandemic in April and Novem...

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Autores: Guallar, Javier, Franch, Pere, Boté Vericad, Juan José, Anton, Laura
Tipo de recurso: artículo
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
OAI Identifier:oai:recercat.cat:20.500.14342/3806
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14342/3806
https://doi.org/10.3145/epi.2022.may.18
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Butlletins d'informació
Periodisme electrònic
Mitjans de comunicació de massa
Anàlisi de contingut (Comunicació)
Fonts d'informació
Covid-19
Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-
Pandèmies
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Sumario:This study focuses on the curation of newsletters specialized in Covid-19 news from the mass media of France, Germany, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the USA. The newsletters of 21 media outlets -15 traditional and six digital natives- were studied during the peaks of the pandemic in April and November 2020. The study follows an evaluative method of curation quality, based on the analysis of the following parameters: number of curated contents, time range, origin, sources -according to organization type and morphology-, authorship, sense-making techniques, and hyperlink informational function. The results identify the main characteristics of news curation in these newsletters and their differences from general newsletters, as well as the sources used, and also make it possible to establish curation quality standings and to identify differences between countries and among legacy and pure digital news outlets.