Social media has become almost a necessity in today’s news environment. Science journalists use social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to keep abreast of news, find story ideas, share their stories, cultivate authority and engage with readers.

This study uses an experiment to analyze how mainstream journalism’s use of tabloid writing techniques affects online credibility. Participants read four news stories and rated their credibility using McCroskey’s Source Credibility Scale. Participants found stories written with a tabloid style less credible than more traditional stories. Tabloidized soft news stories were more credible than tab...

Social media can be a double-edged sword for modern communications, either a convenient channel exchanging ideas or an unexpected conduit circulating fake news through a large population. Existing studies of fake news focus on efforts on theoretical modelling of propagation or identification methods based on black-box machine learning, neglecting the possibility of identifying fake news using o...

A medium is that which remediates. It is that which appropriates the techniques, forms and social significance of other media and attempts to rival of refashion them in the name of the real. A medium in our culture can never operate in isolation, because it must enter into relationships of respect and rivalry with other media. (Bolter2 65) In relation to news and journalism, media is most commo...

The rapid growth of online social media networks like Facebook and Twitter is strongly influencing news media to engage with such networks for generating newsworthy content, accessing mass audiences for news consumption and using the platforms for news distribution. While both media’s complement each other as sources of news and information, they also compete against each other as news reposito...

Given the wide spread of web based tools and social news media services which are facilitating grassroots journalism, there is a growing interest in selecting credible news content among a huge number of articles. Currently, most of social news services rely on reader votes to select articles for their front pages. However, the fundamental problem is that users’ votes often stand for popularity...

A lot of healthcare professionals experienced annoyance with biased mass media news regarding medical and health issues. In this paper, I propose "news profiling method" and "media guideline" to improve the medical and health journalism.

In this paper, we conducted a systematic comparative analysis of language in different contexts of bursty topics, including web search, news media, blogging, and social bookmarking. We analyze (1) the content similarity and predictability between contexts, (2) the coverage of search content by each context, and (3) the intrinsic coherence of information in each context. Our experiments show tha...

Social media for news consumption is becoming popular nowadays. The low cost, easy access and rapid information dissemination of social media bring benefits for people to seek out news timely. However, it also causes the widespread of fake news, i.e., low-quality news pieces that are intentionally fabricated. The fake news brings about several negative effects on individual consumers, news ecos...

The importance of the media for individual and market behavior cannot be overstated. For example, a front-page article in the New York Times that mostly reprints information from six months prior can cause a company’s stock price to jump by over 300%. To better understand the channels through which the media affects markets and the resulting implications for news production, we study how indivi...