Trustworthy and accessible news content is fundamental to democracy and demanded by groups within social spaces of varying structures. News outlets have always, and continue to be in a state of development, adapting to social changes and accommodating the advances new technologies afford the structure of the industry of news.The aim of this thesis is to research the news consumption habits of Spanish undergraduate students at a time when the print newspaper industry, for many years the key disseminator of news relied upon by the general public, is in a state of financial crisis and its future, in its current form, is in jeopardy.Using a quantitative survey of 144 students and supported by a linked theoretical framework of News Consumption, Social Space and Uses & Gratifications, the study illustrates a generation of news consumers with a healthy appetite for news, whose cultural, economic and social capital are manifested via the diverse portfolio of news media they elect to consume from. Adopting a gratifications approach reveals that the efficiency and comfort mobile devices provide users for news consumption is one of the determining factors when deciding upon which forms of news disseminators respondents wish to engage with; user agency takes precedence over the notions of trust felt for the integrity of journalistic publications.The study provides a unique insight into the news consumption habits of Spanish undergraduate students enrolled in private university education, which although not representative of the wider population, is a study of an increasingly significant social group in Spain, their news consumption choices and the relation to the social space they inhabit.

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News media and journalism have undergone huge changes over the first two decades of the 21st century due to the online boom and social media. Infor- mation is delivered to the readers instantaneously making journalists adapt to a new online reality. In this thesis we are focusing on the technological ad- vancement of field and how the journalists manage to cope with this change. A qualitative analysis is carried out in order to understand the current land- scape and to analyze and discuss the challenges and opportunities journalists are facing, as well as explore possible ways one can improve the quality re- garding fact-checking and overall effectivity. The findings show that there is room for innovation and improvement in the news industry that could con- tribute to the quality of the news, together with supporting journalists and news organizations into having a better reach in an online ecosystem. / Nyhetsbranschen har genomgått stora förändringar under 2000-talet på grund av tillgången till uppkopplad teknologi och sociala medier. Information sprids ögonblickligen till allmänheten vilket tvingar journalisterna att anpas- sa sig till en ny online-verklighet. Det här examensarbetet fokuserar på på de teknologiska framsteg inom branschen och hur journalisterna klarar av föränd- ringen. En kvalitativ analys utförs för att förstå det nuvarande landskapet och analysera och diskutera utmaningar och möjligheter som journalister möter samt utforska metoder för att förbättra kvaliteten avseende granskning av ny- heter och effektivitet. Resultatet visar att det finns utrymme för innovationer och förbättringar inom nyhetsbranschen som kan bidra till förbättrad nyhets- kvalitet samt hjälpa journalister och nyhetsföretag att nå allmänheten i ett online ekosystem.

The competitive market of the newspaper industry has undergone considerable changes driven by new technology, the internet and changing audience behavior. The industry is facing two current crises, the decline in print and advertising revenues, and at the same time, the growth of free online content. One of the major challenges for traditional newspapers is to find new ways to increase digital revenues to make-up for these losses. This study uses qualitative interviews and readership data collected from a large traditional publisher to explore how the newspaper can reshape the customer value proposition and increase digital subscriptions. Additionally, the study uses case examples from the industry to combine theoretical reflections with practical development. The newspapers need to continue to explore new opportunities in media, and balance focus between traditional and newer, more radical activities. In the future, success will be dependent on the integration of value-added elements. The findings suggest that traditional newspapers should enhance the value proposition by investing even more in high-quality and multimedia journalism. The audience is willing to pay if the product has a high relative value and is differentiated from the free online news. This can be done by an extensive integration of technology into the journalistic processes and a more defined product. Further, the publisher needs to abandon mass media models and offerings that provide something for everyone, instead offering niches and limited-edition news products to add new revenue streams. / Tidningsindustrin genomgår dramatiska förändringar driven av ny teknik, förändrade konsumentvanor och nya aktörer. Industrin står inför två stora utmaningar, nedåtgående försäljnings- och annonsintäkter och tilltagande gratis innehåll online. En av de stora utmaningarna för tidningar är att hitta nya sätt att öka intäkterna på för att kompensera för dessa förluster. Denna studie använder kvalitativa intervjuer i kombination med kunddata från en Sveriges största morgontidning för att undersöka hur tidningarna kan transformera kunderbjudandet och öka antalet digitala prenumerationer. Studien använder dessutom case från medieindustrin för att kombinera vetenskaplig teori med praktisk utveckling. Tidningarna behöver fortsätta att utforska nya affärsmodeller och balansera fokus mellan inkrementella och mer radikala aktiviteter. Resultatet från denna studie indikerar att tidningarna kan öka kundvärdet genom att investera ännu mer i högkvalitativ- och digital journalistik. För att öka intäkterna borde tidningarna även fokusera mindre på att erbjuda ”lite av allt till alla” och istället erbjuda mer nischade nyhetsprodukter.

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New media technology is altering many aspects of mass communication processes. One of the most profound changes, especially in the newspaper industry, lies in the rise of speed-driven journalism, with growing emphasis on what is new or happening now. With more newspapers adopting this speed-driven news practice, the nature of its impact on journalists and audiences necessitates empirical examination, and this dissertation seeks to contribute to the professional and academic literature from a two-part, mixed method approach. Through interviews with journalists, study 1 sought to understand journalists' view of how speed-driven journalism affects their professional norms, routines and output, and how social media factors into the speed-driven online media landscape. The interviewees were also asked to discuss their view on how speed-driven journalism affects news audiences in terms of news credibility, news use, and paying intent. Based on findings from study 1, an experiment on news audiences was conducted in study 2 to assess the impact of speed-driven journalism on news credibility, future use, paying intent, readability and selective scanning. Key findings from both studies include: (1) Whereas most interviewees in study 1 believed that speed harms news credibility but boosts news use, the experiment in study 2 revealed that speed neither harms news credibility nor promotes future use. (2) Speed-driven journalism has no effect on selective scanning or audiences' paying intent. (3) In terms of readability, news stories presented in the live blog-like format are deemed harder to follow when compared to those presented in the traditional format. This dissertation advances the hierarchy of influence model by uncovering the effect of perceptual disconnect on speed-driven news practices at the social institutions level. That is, journalists are wrong at times in their assessment of how audiences engage with and are affected by new media technology, but nonetheless proceed to produce news and content based upon their mistaken judgment. / text

Submitted by Marlene Aparecida de Souza Cardozo (mcardozo@pucsp.br) on 2016-12-19T11:21:48Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Camargo Nascimento.pdf: 5611314 bytes, checksum: 26a9d237701a4797ffb4626733644db3 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-19T11:21:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marco Antonio Camargo Nascimento.pdf: 5611314 bytes, checksum: 26a9d237701a4797ffb4626733644db3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-11-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Since the end of 2010, news programs have no longer been watched as they used to be. TV is in real time on the Internet, computers, laptops, tablets and mobile phones. In the era of digital convergence, viewers do not only watch TV, but they concomitantly access the content from live images or on demand. This work aims to analyze the codes of this image culture since the beginning of television in Brazil and to analyze the changes undergone by the advent of social media. It also intends to point out the affinity between the nature of the accelerated images and which are out of control of this online media generation with the nature of the images portrayed by the German thinker Aby Warburg. The research corpus comprises an image cut of the period in which the media revolution has resulted in a new language. The hypothesis is that TV, almost seven decades later, must be understood as a broadcasting language, from which it originated, and as a new product of media visibility resulting from the advent of social media. Television has, for the first time, lost its supremacy to the Internet and needed to establish new patterns of relationship with viewers. The work aims to demonstrate the phenomenon of this change and it is based on studies and research on journalism, television and image, particularly those involving technology and thinkers on the image culture. It makes a parallel with the German thinker Aby Warburg, whose theory has characteristics of the language disseminated in the digital communication culture. The scientific research of this study allowed to conclude that TV has been in conflict with the social network as Hercules had been with Hydra. Journalism, which has the news as its major symbolic value, means tactile, volatile and shared mediation of this conflict / Desde o ano 2010 os telejornais não são mais assistidos como antigamente. A TV está em tempo real na Internet, nos computadores, notebooks, tablets e celulares. Na era da convergência digital, os espectadores já não assistem somente à TV, mas acessam instantaneamente o conteúdo de imagens ao vivo ou on demand. Este trabalho tem como objetivo analisar os códigos desta cultura da imagem desde o início da televisão no Brasil, bem como as mudanças sofridas com o advento das redes sociais. Pretende-se também assinalar a afinidade entre a natureza das imagens aceleradas e fora de controle da geração online media com a índole das imagens retratadas pelo pensador alemão Aby Warburg. O corpus da pesquisa compreende um recorte da imagem no período em que a revolução dos meios resultou em uma nova linguagem. A hipótese é a de que a TV, quase sete décadas depois, deve ser compreendida como linguagem broadcasting, da qual se originou, e como um novo produto da sociedade midiática, resultante do advento das redes sociais. A televisão pela primeira vez perdeu a supremacia para a Internet e precisou estabelecer novos padrões de relacionamento com os telespectadores. O trabalho pretende demonstrar o fenômeno desta mudança e ampara-se em estudos e pesquisas sobre jornalismo, televisão e imagem, notadamente aqueles envolvendo tecnologias e pensadores da cultura da imagem. Faz um paralelo com o pensador alemão Aby Warburg, cuja teoria possui características da linguagem disseminada na cultura da comunicação digital. A pesquisa científica deste trabalho permitiu concluir que a televisão vive um conflito com a rede social como Hércules viveu com a Hidra. O jornalismo, cujo maior valor simbólico é a notícia, significa a mediação tátil, volátil e compartilhada deste conflito

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T18:15:06Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriela Pavanato Sardinha.pdf: 19177034 bytes, checksum: b4c09dcffab2e52259c3f9c81e386015 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-27 / The general aim of this work is to study the manifest of dramatic narratives and their signification in the news portals. Specifically, it queries how the new information flows distribute their content in virtual environments and how this composition interferes in the signification of the reported facts. Our hypothesis suggests the online mosaics add a second level to the texts, reaffirming stereotypes, starting from the verbal and visual composition of their homepages. The investigation focuses on the observation of fait divers , whose signification is supported by the mix of fictional narratives with the reality and the relationship of these with serials, nineteenth-century genre that reappears, compressed, in the portals footers. The research corpus is composed of free and open websites, G1 and UOL, selected between 2012 and 2014. The methodology is based on the understanding of the syncretic object from the perspective of Discursive Semiotics, preceded by a bibliographical and documental survey, with systematic monitoring of those medias. Theoretically, we have adopted the A. J. Greimas Semiotic models, the classic work developed for the press by Roland Barthes, especially his ideas on the narrative movement of the news when dealing with the fait divers and myth , and the Marshall McLuhan s interpretation for the media organization as a mosaic. We also bring along the concept of journalistic field, defined by Pierre Bourdieu, to analyze the struggles it accomplishes to acquire visibility / O objetivo mais geral deste trabalho é estudar a manifestação das narrativas espantosas e suas significações nos portais de notícias on-line. Especificamente, trata-se de perguntar de que forma os novos fluxos de informação distribuem os seus conteúdos nos ambientes virtuais e como essa composição interfere na significação dos fatos noticiados. Jogamos com a hipótese de que os mosaicos on-line ultrassignificam os textos, reafirmando estereótipos, já a partir da composição verbovisual das suas páginas de rosto. A investigação se atém à observação dos fait divers , cuja significação ampara-se na mistura de narrativas ficcionais com fatos da realidade e à articulação desses com os folhetins, gênero oitocentista que se reapresenta, compactadamente, nos rodapés dos portais. O corpus da pesquisa é composto por sítios eletrônicos gratuitos e abertos, dos portais de notícias G1 e UOL, tomados no período entre 2012 e 2014. Metodologicamente, trata-se de uma leitura do objeto sincrético sob a perspectiva da Semiótica Discursiva, precedida por uma pesquisa bibliográfica e documental, com acompanhamento sistemático das referidas mídias. Teoricamente, amparamo-nos nos modelos semióticos de A.J. Greimas, nos trabalhos clássicos desenvolvidos para a imprensa, especialmente, na interpretação que Roland Barthes dá ao movimento narrativo próprio da notícia ao tratar do fait divers e do mito e na interpretação que Marshall McLuhan faz de sua organização como um mosaico, além de trazermos o conceito de campo jornalístico, definido por Pierre Bourdieu, para análise das lutas que parece travar ao revestir a sua visibilidade

若以中國傳統「春耕、夏耘、秋收、冬藏」比喻人生的四階段，那中年時期應屬秋收時期，而原本生命架構最趨穩定的中年期，受到社會快速變遷、科技日益月新的影響之下，導致職業生涯轉變，仍可藉由職業生涯轉換的過渡期，重新檢討與修正個體的價值觀與生活態度，再經由實際的轉換行為，選擇適應變遷或者重新建立生命目標尋找出路，建立新的生命架構。 本研究探究一群民國40~55年間出生的《民生報》資深記者，從報業輝煌時期到進入新聞界，至民國97年離開《民生報》之後的適應過程。過往文獻指出由於外在媒體環境的改變，導致記者可能被迫非自願性的離職，產生中年生涯的職業轉換，在這個轉換的過程當中，內在的新聞專業性認知亦隨著時間演變，在個體的職業生涯轉換歷程，是否也會對「新聞專業性」產生不同的價值觀與自我角色認知差異，再者，本研究個體的特殊性在於，其職業為新聞工作者，當面臨中年生涯的職業轉變之時，整體社會脈絡的壓力，使其必須正視網路的力量，無論是選擇接受或者是抗拒，皆不可避免的瞭解，網路確實是不可忽視的媒體，是以，當網際網路提供了資深記者再起的機會之時，資深記者應當如何適應。 研究發現，資深記者面臨職涯選擇時，對所處社會的媒體環境感到失望，他們認為最好的時代已經過去了，目前媒體的商業行為以及不完善的職訓制度，令他們失望，普遍認為媒體惡質是整體環境因素，但並不認為是記者角色本身的錯誤或者技術不足，而是相信是由於當前商人辦報與他們所處文人辦報的出發點已不相同，但都還是認為記者角色具有專業性以及在社會上仍然具有特殊性。 本研究亦發現資深記者在面臨新科技的適應過程中，會改變自己的態度，從傳統的演講式權威傳播，改為與讀者互動的對話式參與傳播，形成新的價值觀，認為記者需彎下腰聆聽讀者的聲音，也將網路當作助力。即使改由網路上寫作，依然認為網路新聞需具備專業，他們認為，雖然網路迫使傳統新聞產業面臨改變，每個人都可以蒐集、發佈資訊時，資深記者們反而認為在此種大量未經篩選的雜亂資訊的網路時代更襯托出新聞的必要性以及專業性， 研究對象提出在資訊過量的網路時代，記者所需具備的專業與能力，首先，科技扮演的只是輔助的功能；對於資深記者來說，網路時代的記者仍需具備基本的新聞產製技巧，新聞教育有存在的必要性；同時記者須更謹慎小心對文章負責，少了編輯台的守門把關，記者本身應注重查證以及錯字，最後認為組織有存在的必要性，越有信譽的新聞組織能提供越公正客觀的新聞，因此，記者雖看似自由，卻要選擇有信譽的組織發布新聞，才能提升新聞的點閱率。

The object of this study was to get a wider picture of the articles published in the Swedish online newspaper Nyheter24. The newspaper is the biggest newspaper only coming out online in Sweden today and basically the idea was to get an overview of their content. The study was based upon two research questions: “What does Nyheter24 write about?” and “What type of journalism does Nyheter24 make?” My research method was a quantitative content analysis and the study contains 550 articles in total, gathered during two weeks time from the website. The results show that Nyheter24 writes about various topics but they tend to produce news stories with an odd or sensational angle. More than half of the articles studied in the news section were rewrites from other news media and less than 20 % of the articles in the same section had quotes from interviews done by the newspaper themselves. In the sports section, just one of all the articles published in the section during the two weeks contained a quote from an interview Nyheter24 had done. The study does also show that investigative journalism is rare at Nyheter24. But it was even more uncommon, zero articles in the news section, for the journalists to do reports of places or news events by going outside the newsroom. What played a bigger part in the news from Nyheter24 was social media. Especially the sports section and the entertainment section published stories where social media was the origin of the story. Generally the results show what several other researchers have found out about online journalism. There is a big recycling of news and the journalists tend to be stuck behind a computer, screening websites and doing rewrites to publish a lot of material quickly. Doing interviews to the stories seemed to have a lower priority.