Title

Citizen Journalists' Views on Traditional Notions of Journalism, Story Sourcing, And Relationship Building: The persistence of legacy norms in an emerging news environment

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Journalism Studies

Publication Date

3-4-2017

Abstract

This study examines whether citizen journalists adhere to traditional journalistic norms when reporting. A nationwide survey and follow-up interviews with selected US citizen journalists showed they do consider traditional norms such as objectivity, gatekeeping, and balance to be very important. This is contrary to what some previous studies have found. Citizen journalists also indicated that both official and unofficial sources were integral to storytelling. This study's findings point to the need to examine further how citizen journalists incorporate traditional notions of journalism practice into their approaches to gathering and reporting news.

Volume

18

Issue

3

First Page

341

Last Page

357

DOI

10.1080/1461670X.2015.1051094

ISSN

1461670X

E-ISSN

14699699

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