News Research Journal

This study finds that current FAA regulations do not permit private drone use for commercial purposes, including journalism. Privacy concerns about the use of drones in journalism may be addressed by existing law that finds reporters can legally record people who are in public or can be easily seen from a public place.

A survey of senior editors of U.S. print broadcast and online news outlets found that while 98 percent of the 376 respondents say they use social media, they primarily use it to post links to stories on Facebook and Twitter. Far fewer use social media to interact with audiences by posing questions and responding to comments.

A national survey of journalists’ social media use found that younger journalists used social media tools in newsgathering more often than did their older colleagues. Social media use ranked lower as a newsgathering tool, compared to face-to-face interviews, phone calls and email correspondence.

An analysis of the tweets by newspaper and broadcast journalists during the 2011 San Diego power outage found that most tweets fell into the traditional reporting practice of one-way communication. Newspaper journalists sent more interactive tweets than did broadcast journalists.

This study reports people prefer longer, high-quality videos to any other type on newspaper websites and poor quality videos can harm the news brand. Editors should be much more critical of the videos they post and journalists should have multi-media training.

In an experiment comparing traditional news reporting to citizen blogs, university students rated traditional journalism as more credible than citizen journalism. Also, participants assessed straight news articles as more credible than opinionated reports of the same news.

A survey of college students finds that key motivations for using photo slideshows on news websites were realistic content, relaxation, interactivity and learning, while connection with others/realism and relaxation inspired video use on these websites. College students tend to view videos on the news sites more often than photo slideshows

An analysis of the 2006 primary campaigns for the Ohio governorship found that candidates offering the media easier access enjoyed substantially more positive coverage that reflected an imbalance in their favor both in candidate-driven news and in the use of candidate quotes.

A framing analysis of South Korea’s three major newspapers and two television networks reveals that coverage of presidential election polls was heavily biased toward the ruling party and its candidate. The Korean mainstream media stories more often focused on the race between candidates than on political issues of the campaign.