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What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany (SM&S 2018)

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What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany

Axel Bruns, Christian Nuernbergk, and Aljosha Karim Schapals

Full paper available here (PDF).

Abstract

Social media such as Twitter are now widely used by pro-fessional journalists in their day-to-day practice. Active use of such platforms for reporting the news and engaging with audiences requires a range of choices about the kind of public persona journalists wish to present; one key choice is what links to their own and other sources’ news stories they are prepared to share. This work-in-progress paper presents a comparative analysis of the news sharing choices of members of the Australian and German national press corps, showing considerably different selection patterns.

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