Guide to critical thinking, research, data and theory: Overview for
In daily journalism, we are often content to quote relevant sources or officials, and let them do the "explaining." ... Hypothesis: A conjectured relationship between two phenomena. Like laws, hypotheses can be causal ("I surmise that 'A' causes 'B' ") and non-causal ("I surmise that 'A' and 'B' are caused by 'C ...
In investigative journalism, a hypothesis is a proposed explanation that assesses a problem or issue in order to establish the truth of what happened by making connections between the facts - even if those facts are not yet entirely verified. It provides provisional answers on how an event might be connected to an actor (a perpetrator) and its ...
1.1. From an idea to a hypothesis
From an idea to a hypothesis. 1.1. From an idea to a hypothesis. You must next turn your initial thoughts into a specific question your story can answer. This helps you: Decide what constitutes proof, and what evidence is relevant. Make work manageable by defining boundaries and goals. Communicate and 'sell' the idea to others.
Advancing Journalism and Communication Research: New Concepts, Theories
Most importantly, globalization has exposed the Western bias of much of the field's theoretical and conceptual work (Gunaratne, 2010; Willems, 2014), which privileges and universalizes Western media, journalism practices, and politics.With Western-centrism reproduced over generations of scholars, the inequality between "the West" and "the rest" has divided our disciplinary viewpoint ...
Theories of Journalism
Theories of journalism, as Löffelholz ( 2008) observed, come from diverse perspectives, beginning with early normative concerns leading to more empirical analysis of how journalists work. Adding a systems perspective attempted to position the individual as part of a larger system (e.g., Rühl, 1969) and to understand news as a cultural product.
Full article: Clarifying Journalism's Quantitative Turn
Computer-assisted Reporting. Though the use of computers in journalism dates back to the 1950s (Cox Citation 2000), the de facto godfather of CAR is Philip Meyer, who outlined a new form called precision journalism in a book of the same name (Meyer Citation 1973).Precision journalism was modeled after social science, using empirical methods (particularly surveys and content analysis) and ...
Building a hypothesis for your next data story
Introduction. 2020 pulled data journalism in two drastically different directions. On the one hand, the Black Lives Matter movement forced the data journalism community to question equity in the field: who is data journalism produced by, for and about? On the other hand, the pandemic offered a plethora of opportunities to channel the firehouse of coronavirus into shiny, often impersonal ...
Digital Journalism and Epistemologies of News Production
Data journalism has mainstreamed hypothesis-testing and data-driven logics within journalism, although epistemological tensions still emerge when traditional journalists work alongside their more data-oriented counterparts (Borges-Rey, 2020). However, although the production of data journalism marks an epistemological shift from traditional ...
Investigative journalism: Handling data and gathering evidence
In Part 5 of our series on investigative journalism, we look at different methods of gathering evidence. More than 130 countries have adopted laws encouraging the sharing of information and 76 of them have become part of the Open Government Partnership. This has improved the flow of data from governments to the media and onto the internet.
Indexing
Introduction. "Indexing" is a theory of news content and press-state relations first formulated as the "indexing hypothesis.". At its core, the indexing hypothesis predicts that news content on political and public policy issues will generally follow the parameters of elite debate: when political elites (such as the White House and ...
Confirmation bias in journalism: What it is and strategies to avoid it
In journalism, confirmation bias can influence a reporter's assessment of whether a story is worth pitching and an editor's decision to greenlight a story pitch. If the pitch is accepted, it can determine the questions the reporter decides to ask — or declines to ask — while investigating the story. It can affect an editor's choice to ...
What Is Investigative Journalism?
Veteran trainers note that the best investigative journalism employs a careful methodology, with heavy reliance on primary sources, forming and testing a hypothesis, and rigorous fact-checking. The dictionary definition of "investigation" is "systematic inquiry," which typically cannot be done in a day or two; a thorough inquiry ...
Research Ethics in Investigative Journalism
Investigative journalism has made inroads into academia: from courses taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels to special and capstone projects. ... Beyond the presence of an investigative or research hypothesis, investigative reports produced at some universities, especially as theses, incorporate theories, including those drawn from ...
Testing the inadvertency hypothesis: Incidental news exposure and
The inadvertency hypothesis predicts that people encounter political difference in social media spaces not by design, but rather as a by-product of social media's affordances and cultural logics. ... Journalism 19(5): 632-648. Crossref. ISI. Google Scholar. Bakshy E, Messing S, Adamic L (2015) Exposure to ideologically diverse news and ...
Journalism & Fact-Checking : Hypothesis
Event: Journalism & Fact-checking at I Annotate 2017. Fact-checkers and journalists came together at the fifth-annual I Annotate conference to talk about how annotation is enriching the ways we produce and consume both news and facts. Climate change • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
A hypothesis driven investigation has many advantages. It is usually based on human sources as opposed to mountains of data. ... It is a methodology you can continue to apply to your journalism. A ...
Hypothesis for Publishers : Hypothesis
Hypothesis works at the center of the open annotation community. We created the space, built the first framework, and drove the standards that now define it. In 2015, we launched the Annotating All Knowledge coalition that now counts over 70 of the largest scholarly publishers and platforms. We also host I Annotate, the industry conference on ...
Story-Based Inquiry: A Manual for Investigative Journalists
"Investigative Journalism means the unveiling of matters that are concealed either deliberately by someone in a position of power, or accidentally, behind a chaotic mass of facts and circumstances - and the analysis and exposure of all relevant facts to the public. In this way investigative journalism crucially contributes to freedom of expression and freedom of information, which are at the ...
Investigative Journalism
This third edition maps the new world of investigative journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energised journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences for politics and business worldwide. In this new edition, expert contributors demonstrate how crowdsourcing, big data, globalisation of information, and changes in media ownership ...
Full article: How Do Investigative Journalists Initiate Their Stories
Introduction. Investigative journalism has attracted the attention of both professionals and academic researchers in recent years (Carson Citation 2020, 5).In a context of widespread transformation in the media field, investigative journalism is perceived both as a way for journalism to survive (Carson Citation 2020; Hamilton Citation 2016; Knobel Citation 2018) and as an endangered species ...
Mass Media Flow and Differential Distribution of Politically Disputed
These changes address epistemological and micro-level critiques of the knowledge gap hypothesis while extending it in new directions. Evidence supported the hypotheses that ideology would be a better predictor than education of beliefs about the existence of global warming, but not its causes, and that the "belief gap" between conservatives ...
Journalism and Media
The public service media Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) conducted a proof-of-concept study to automatically generate reports on the results of the local elections of 28 May 2023 in Spanish communities with fewer than 1000 inhabitants. This study describes the creation, testing and application of the methodological tool used to evaluate the quality of the reports generated using artificial ...
Federal officials suspend funding to EcoHealth Alliance ...
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Revisiting the Knowledge Gap Hypothesis: Education, Motivation, and
Abstract. The findings of this study support the significance of motivational variables and media use in modifying the relationship between education and knowledge acquisition. People's behavioral involvement in the 1992 presidential campaign influenced the knowledge gap between education groups such that the gap was significantly smaller among ...
Hate "The Phantom Menace"? The Ewok Line theory could explain why
The 25th anniversary of "The Phantom Menace" coincides with the 41st anniversary of a fictionally established but sound theory first presented by Neil Patrick Harris' Barney Stinson in a ...
Research reveals disparities between CT's Puerto Ricans, other Latinos
"Another hypothesis is the low levels of education, as they may not be aware of the disadvantages or advantages they could have." ... and readers like you who value fact-based journalism and trustworthy information. We hope their support inspires you to donate so that we can continue telling stories that inform, educate, and inspire you and ...
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In daily journalism, we are often content to quote relevant sources or officials, and let them do the "explaining." ... Hypothesis: A conjectured relationship between two phenomena. Like laws, hypotheses can be causal ("I surmise that 'A' causes 'B' ") and non-causal ("I surmise that 'A' and 'B' are caused by 'C ...
In investigative journalism, a hypothesis is a proposed explanation that assesses a problem or issue in order to establish the truth of what happened by making connections between the facts - even if those facts are not yet entirely verified. It provides provisional answers on how an event might be connected to an actor (a perpetrator) and its ...
From an idea to a hypothesis. 1.1. From an idea to a hypothesis. You must next turn your initial thoughts into a specific question your story can answer. This helps you: Decide what constitutes proof, and what evidence is relevant. Make work manageable by defining boundaries and goals. Communicate and 'sell' the idea to others.
Most importantly, globalization has exposed the Western bias of much of the field's theoretical and conceptual work (Gunaratne, 2010; Willems, 2014), which privileges and universalizes Western media, journalism practices, and politics.With Western-centrism reproduced over generations of scholars, the inequality between "the West" and "the rest" has divided our disciplinary viewpoint ...
Theories of journalism, as Löffelholz ( 2008) observed, come from diverse perspectives, beginning with early normative concerns leading to more empirical analysis of how journalists work. Adding a systems perspective attempted to position the individual as part of a larger system (e.g., Rühl, 1969) and to understand news as a cultural product.
Computer-assisted Reporting. Though the use of computers in journalism dates back to the 1950s (Cox Citation 2000), the de facto godfather of CAR is Philip Meyer, who outlined a new form called precision journalism in a book of the same name (Meyer Citation 1973).Precision journalism was modeled after social science, using empirical methods (particularly surveys and content analysis) and ...
Introduction. 2020 pulled data journalism in two drastically different directions. On the one hand, the Black Lives Matter movement forced the data journalism community to question equity in the field: who is data journalism produced by, for and about? On the other hand, the pandemic offered a plethora of opportunities to channel the firehouse of coronavirus into shiny, often impersonal ...
Data journalism has mainstreamed hypothesis-testing and data-driven logics within journalism, although epistemological tensions still emerge when traditional journalists work alongside their more data-oriented counterparts (Borges-Rey, 2020). However, although the production of data journalism marks an epistemological shift from traditional ...
In Part 5 of our series on investigative journalism, we look at different methods of gathering evidence. More than 130 countries have adopted laws encouraging the sharing of information and 76 of them have become part of the Open Government Partnership. This has improved the flow of data from governments to the media and onto the internet.
Introduction. "Indexing" is a theory of news content and press-state relations first formulated as the "indexing hypothesis.". At its core, the indexing hypothesis predicts that news content on political and public policy issues will generally follow the parameters of elite debate: when political elites (such as the White House and ...
In journalism, confirmation bias can influence a reporter's assessment of whether a story is worth pitching and an editor's decision to greenlight a story pitch. If the pitch is accepted, it can determine the questions the reporter decides to ask — or declines to ask — while investigating the story. It can affect an editor's choice to ...
Veteran trainers note that the best investigative journalism employs a careful methodology, with heavy reliance on primary sources, forming and testing a hypothesis, and rigorous fact-checking. The dictionary definition of "investigation" is "systematic inquiry," which typically cannot be done in a day or two; a thorough inquiry ...
Investigative journalism has made inroads into academia: from courses taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels to special and capstone projects. ... Beyond the presence of an investigative or research hypothesis, investigative reports produced at some universities, especially as theses, incorporate theories, including those drawn from ...
The inadvertency hypothesis predicts that people encounter political difference in social media spaces not by design, but rather as a by-product of social media's affordances and cultural logics. ... Journalism 19(5): 632-648. Crossref. ISI. Google Scholar. Bakshy E, Messing S, Adamic L (2015) Exposure to ideologically diverse news and ...
Event: Journalism & Fact-checking at I Annotate 2017. Fact-checkers and journalists came together at the fifth-annual I Annotate conference to talk about how annotation is enriching the ways we produce and consume both news and facts. Climate change • Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns.
A hypothesis driven investigation has many advantages. It is usually based on human sources as opposed to mountains of data. ... It is a methodology you can continue to apply to your journalism. A ...
Hypothesis works at the center of the open annotation community. We created the space, built the first framework, and drove the standards that now define it. In 2015, we launched the Annotating All Knowledge coalition that now counts over 70 of the largest scholarly publishers and platforms. We also host I Annotate, the industry conference on ...
"Investigative Journalism means the unveiling of matters that are concealed either deliberately by someone in a position of power, or accidentally, behind a chaotic mass of facts and circumstances - and the analysis and exposure of all relevant facts to the public. In this way investigative journalism crucially contributes to freedom of expression and freedom of information, which are at the ...
This third edition maps the new world of investigative journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energised journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences for politics and business worldwide. In this new edition, expert contributors demonstrate how crowdsourcing, big data, globalisation of information, and changes in media ownership ...
Introduction. Investigative journalism has attracted the attention of both professionals and academic researchers in recent years (Carson Citation 2020, 5).In a context of widespread transformation in the media field, investigative journalism is perceived both as a way for journalism to survive (Carson Citation 2020; Hamilton Citation 2016; Knobel Citation 2018) and as an endangered species ...
These changes address epistemological and micro-level critiques of the knowledge gap hypothesis while extending it in new directions. Evidence supported the hypotheses that ideology would be a better predictor than education of beliefs about the existence of global warming, but not its causes, and that the "belief gap" between conservatives ...
The public service media Radio Televisión Española (RTVE) conducted a proof-of-concept study to automatically generate reports on the results of the local elections of 28 May 2023 in Spanish communities with fewer than 1000 inhabitants. This study describes the creation, testing and application of the methodological tool used to evaluate the quality of the reports generated using artificial ...
Support nonprofit science journalism. Sophisticated, trustworthy reporting about science has never been more important. As part of the AAAS mission, Science has built a global award-winning network of reporters and editors that independently cover the most important developments in research and policy.
Abstract. The findings of this study support the significance of motivational variables and media use in modifying the relationship between education and knowledge acquisition. People's behavioral involvement in the 1992 presidential campaign influenced the knowledge gap between education groups such that the gap was significantly smaller among ...
The 25th anniversary of "The Phantom Menace" coincides with the 41st anniversary of a fictionally established but sound theory first presented by Neil Patrick Harris' Barney Stinson in a ...
"Another hypothesis is the low levels of education, as they may not be aware of the disadvantages or advantages they could have." ... and readers like you who value fact-based journalism and trustworthy information. We hope their support inspires you to donate so that we can continue telling stories that inform, educate, and inspire you and ...