A survey measuring audience reactions to local television news was administered to middle school/high school students, college students, and senior citizens. The majority in each population reported watching the news to learn about the world. They agreed that news is mostly about violent events and that such news causes them to worry and to feel that the world is not a safe place. Significant s...

exposes. The news, as Hamilton (2004) remarks, is an “information good,” a thing to be sold to advertisers and audiences. Although major corporate scandals get news coverage when they break, news organizations do not invest heavily in investigating private-sector actions (→ Investigative Reporting). News organizations and journalists do not so much promote corporate power as they ignore it, all...

Despite many users get timely information through various social media platforms, news websites remain important mainstream media for high-quality news articles and comprehensive news coverage. Moreover, news websites are becoming well connected with the social media platform by enabling one-click sharing, allowing readers to comment on the articles, and pushing news update to social media thro...

A media storm is a sudden surge in news coverage of an item, producing high attention for a sustained period. Our study represents the first multi-issue, quantitative analysis of storm behavior. We build a theory of the mechanisms that drive media storms and why the “anatomy” of media storms differs from that of non-storm coverage. Specifically, media storm coverage should change less explosive...