The object of this research is the practice of quality news on internet-native news outlets. It aimed at answering the following questions:<p>1) What is high quality news in internet-native news outlets? What is the criterion?<p>2) What are the process of development and experience of internet as news outlets? Why do professional journalists of traditional media seek internet as news outlets?<p>3) How do journalists use ICTs to make the best of alternative news outlets? What are the operation models and their characteristics?<p><p>This dissertation derived from the assumption that internet-native news outlets are effective journalistic practices to improve the quality of the news. To understand this proposition, various perspectives of definition and the way of measuring the quality of the news were adopted in this research. Practically, three internet-native news outlets were chosen as case studies in this research: The French website Rue89, Belgium website Apache and Spanish website Eldiario. The empirical part of this study includes twenty in-depth interviews and observation in their newsrooms, and basic statistics of top news stories in the home page of six websites from the three countries. Therefore, both quantitative and qualitative methods have been used in this research.<p><p>The contribution of this research is rethinking quality journalism in the digital age and introducing the journalistic experiences of professional journalists. First, this research provides an academic definition for the newly generated websites, and theorizes it as Internet-native news outlets. Next, this research analysed internet-native news outlets systematically, especially importing the European journalism website to the domain of online journalism studies. Moreover, the introduction of journalist’s statues in different countries is a valuable complement for journalism studies. Furthermore, the method of interview, observation and case study were applied in this research, which is a new examination of online journalism research. Finally, internet-native news outlets create a positive interaction between journalists and readers, which also enrich the news issues and news resource. It is quite important to rethink and discover the social problems. These academic explorations certainly confront many challenges because of majority of social and culture factors, but the results would be valuable for the reflection on knowledge construction in the international academy.<p> / Doctorat en Information et communication / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/209253 |
| Date | 05 June 2014 |
| Creators | Zhao, Ruhan |
| Contributors | Heinderyckx, François, Liu, Chang, Zhang, Yanqiu, Zhang, Kai, Domingo, David, Le Cam, Florence |
| Publisher | Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres – Sciences de l'information et de la communication, Bruxelles |
| Source Sets | Université libre de Bruxelles |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation |
| Format | 1 v. (183 p.), No full-text files |
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