scholarly journals Spreading the Good News: Analyzing Socially Shared Inspirational News Content

2018 ◽  
Vol 96 (3) ◽  
pp. 872-893 ◽  
Author(s):  
Qihao Ji ◽  
Arthur A. Raney ◽  
Sophie H. Janicke-Bowles ◽  
Katherine R. Dale ◽  
Mary Beth Oliver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Language Use ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Good News ◽  
News Story ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Content ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Online

Past research indicates that people often share awe-inspiring news online. However, little is known about the content of those stories. In this study, more broadly defined “inspirational” articles shared through The New York Times website over a 6-month period were analyzed, with the goals of describing the content and identifying characteristics that might predict inspirationality and measures of retransmission. The results provided a snapshot of content found within inspirational news stories; they also revealed that self-transcendent language use predicted the inspirationality of a news story, as well as how long an article appeared on a most shared list.

scholarly journals Augmented Reality in The New York Times: the experience of editorial content according to Brazilian audiences

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Regina Puhl ◽  
Roberto Tietzmann ◽  
Samara Kalil
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Digital Imaging ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Body ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Editorial Content ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Stories ◽  
And Behavior

<p>This article analyzes and seeks to reflect on Brazilian users’ immersive experience with content available in virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR), on the New York Times. The goal is to verify the perception of the immersive news stories made available by the newspaper in two articles that deal with fashion and behavior: “Augmented Reality: David Bowie in three dimensions”, published on March 20, 2018, which examines the costumes of the musician and composer based on the catalog of the exhibition “David Bowie Is” and “Ashley Graham: unfiltered”, published on September 5, 2018, which explores digital imaging resources to illustrate the model’s interview on the plus size fashion theme and acceptance of the body. The text begins with a literature review and research on the adoption of such technology by journalistic vehicles and proposes a study based on the investigation of the meaning/pertinence of the simulations for the interpretation of contexts and themes in journalistic matters.  Additionally, the text questions how these technological resources affect the processes of communication and perception, through a research dynamic with a group of Brazilian volunteers, to verify how these new technological resources explore the degree of immersion and the strategies of these experiences, with the preliminary results described at the end.</p>

When news isn’t news

2003 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana ben-Aaron
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Good News ◽  
News Values ◽  
Public Response ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Human Conduct ◽  
Future Consumption ◽  
Negative Face

Most research studies of news assume a bias toward the extreme, the unusual, and the new. However, much of the content of newspapers consists of the routine and the predictable. Using a collection of articles from the New York Times sampled from 1852 to the present, this paper examines news about one subject, national holidays, with a view to explaining the pragmatic functions of such formally unnewsworthy articles. In the national holiday news cycle, the newspaper first announces or forecasts the observances, and after they have taken place the public response is evaluated for enthusiasm and decorum. The standard of behaviour is reinforced through small human interest stories that contain inferential gaps encouraging readers to draw on their knowledge of human conduct. The basic principle being inferred is politeness toward the nation, in the sense of respecting its positive face by anticipating and following its wishes, and respecting its negative face by avoiding challenges and focusing on citizen responsibilities rather than citizen rights. The result is news stories that violate some of the most important “hard” news values previously identified by researchers, by being predictable, ambiguous, static, and generally “good news”. The analysis also shows how news which is apparently free of conflict can prepare readers for future consumption of conflict-oriented news.

Protests on the Front Page: Media Salience, Institutional Dynamics, and Coverage of Collective Action in the New York Times, 1960-1995

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Rafail ◽  
Edward T. Walker ◽  
John D. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Page Placement ◽  
Over Time

Past research has illuminated consistent patterns in the type of protests that receive media attention. Still, we know relatively little about the differential prominence editors assign to events deemed worthy of coverage. We argue that while media routines shape whether events are covered, mass media organizations, social institutions, and systemic changes are important factors in determinations of prominence. To examine patterns of prominence, this study analyzes the factors influencing page placement patterns of protests covered in the New York Times, 1960-1995. We find that (1) protests are less likely to appear prominently over time, but this effect is conditioned by the paper’s editorial and publishing regime; (2) regime effects were especially consequential for civil rights and peace protests; (3) effects of event size and violence weakened over time; and (4) events embedded within larger cycles of protest coverage during less constricted news cycles were more likely to be featured prominently.

scholarly journals Two stories about evolution on The New York Times and a strange “editorial balance”

2006 ◽  
Vol 05 (02) ◽  
pp. C02
Author(s):  
Niles Eldredge
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Intelligent Design ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Stories

I would like to celebrate not one, but two major news stories about evolution that help further cast the forces of intellectual darkness — meaning creationism and intelligent design — back into the shadows where they belong.

Activism and Exception in Covering Egypt’s Uprising: A Critical Reading of the New York Times Representation of Female Protestors

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 310-327
Author(s):  
Nermin Allam
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Women's Activism ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Representation Of Women ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Popular Movement ◽  
Postcolonial Feminist

This paper interrogates the representation of women in the NEW YORK TIMES (nyt) coverage of the 2011 Egyptian uprising. In it, I highlight some of the ways in which Orientalist stereotypes were often manifested in the nyt representation of female protestors. The data for this project draws upon 224 news-stories published in the nyt during the 2011 Egyptian uprising. The stories offer a detailed coverage of the popular movement between January 25 and February 19, 2011. I carry out a textual analysis of news and commentaries, and read the text through the lens of feminist and postcolonial theories. My analysis suggests that traditional Orientalist motifs of passiveness coexisted along new ones of agency in the coverage. By evoking the myth of female passiveness and framing female activism as an exception, the nyt, I suggest, assuaged the effect of women’s activism in deconstructing traditional gender and geopolitical stereotypes. In so doing, the paper contributes to exposing how Orientalist discourses are able to reflect variation and historical shifts. It also extends the postcolonial feminist insight to new cases by offering a critical reading of women’s image in a key global news paper and amidst a period of change and uncertainties.

Embedding journalists shape Iraq news story

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-18
Author(s):  
Miles Maguire
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
News Story ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
The New York Times

This study, based on a review of The New York Times’ inconsistent accounts of a Marine’s death while aiding two embedded Times journalists in Fallujah, illustrates the ethical challenges of embedded journalism and shows how the embedding process can shape news accounts to support military objectives at the expense of traditional journalistic values.

scholarly journals A Critical Discourse Analysis of News Reports on Sino-US Trade War in The New York Times

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Ruiqi Zhou ◽  
Siying Qin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
Language Use ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Trade War ◽  
Trade Conflicts

Critical Discourse Analysis is an interdisciplinary approach to the study of discourse regarding language as a form of social practice. As a specific discourse, news discourse is a representation of the journalists&rsquo; expression and construction of events, as well as readers&rsquo; understanding and cognition of the events reported. It functions as a carrier that transmits ideologies and social values. Recently, news reports on the trade conflicts between China and the US has been the focus of world attention. A study of news reports on Sino-US trade conflicts with Critical Discourse Analysis approach helps interpret the relation between language use and social contexts and reveal ideological significance and power struggle in language. Twenty pieces of news reports on China&rsquo;s tariff actions on the United States, collected from The New York Times from 2018 to 2019 are studied and the result shows that the use of language in the news texts is not arbitrary, but rather dominated by the medium. The options of lexical expressions in news, the selection of clause types and the position of participants enable the medium to construct a negative image of China and to define China as an unfavorable country. The reasons deciding the language use in this discourse are the tension and balance of the power relation between the U.S. and China in the trade war, and the institution&rsquo;s favor of the American interest, the American political hegemony and the advocacy of force.

Influence of journalists’ personal characteristics on non-temporal news coverage

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 317-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miki Tanikawa
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Personal Characteristics ◽  
Strong Indication ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
News Content

This study compared two reporters at the New York Times, who had the same news assignment, to examine whether personal backgrounds and interests of the journalists had an impact on the news content they created, especially in the non-time sensitive feature coverage. Employing a mixed-methods approach, findings in this study indicate that personal characteristics do play a role in shaping news content, contrary to what most previous gatekeeping studies have found. Individuality becomes more pronounced when one controls for the type of news, between time-urgent straight news and non-straight news such as features. There is strong indication that among individuals’ largest contributions to content is making topical suggestions.

Journalists and Novelists: A Study of Diverging Styles

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 436-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wayne A. Danielson ◽  
Dominic L. Lasorsa ◽  
Dae S. Im
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Matched Sample ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
News Stories

Readability of news stories sampled for each year for more than a century, from 1885 to 1989, from the New York Times and Los Angeles Times reveals a gradual drop in readability, mainly due to journalistic use of longer words but not to the use of longer sentences. A matched sample of sentences from novels published in the same years show an increase in readability, mainly because novelists used even shorter sentences and continued to use simple words.

Reviews

1978 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 384-395
Author(s):  
Douglas B. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
News Media ◽  
School Principals ◽  
Secondary School Principals ◽  
New York Times ◽  
News Story ◽  
Sat Scores ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Scholastic Aptitude

The news media have reported the results of a study by the National Association of Secondary School Principals' Department of Research of “34 high schools around the country that have successfully resisted the trend toward falling [Scholastic Aptitude Test] scores” (New York Times. 28 March 1978). The news stories stressed the study's major conclusion that schools whose SAT scores have been stable or rising have emphasized academic coursework, but the stories gave as much or more weight to the suggestion that schools whose scores declined were too responsive to educational fads. Although the study specifically noted that one could not stereotype the schools according to innovative or traditional instructional methods, reporters and editorial writers read the study as condemning such innovations as the open classroom concept. The headline of the news story in the Atlanta Constitution on 2 April 1978 was typical: “Schools Avoid Fads, Students Do Better.”

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