Newsroom topic teams: Journalists' assessments of effects on news routines and newspaper quality

被引:14
作者
Hansen, KA [1 ]
Neuzil, M
Ward, J
机构
[1] Univ Minnesota, Sch Journalism & Mass Commun, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[2] Univ St Thomas, Dept Journalism & Mass Commun, Houston, TX 77006 USA
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10.1177/107769909807500413
中图分类号
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要
This study examines the effects of newsroom topic teams on news routines and newspaper quanlity. It is based on a census survey of journalists at the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which both instituted topic teams within six months of each other. Survey results ave supplemented by focus group and written comments from journalists in these two Newspaper Guild newsrooms. The study finds that the effects of the team system oil the news process nod news qualify have been mixed, but predominantly negative, in the assessment of these journalists.
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页码:803 / 821
页数:19
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