Social Media & Society 2018
What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany
Axel Bruns, Christian Nuernbergk, and Aljosha Karim Schapals
- 20 July 2018 – Social Media & Society 2018, Copenhagen
What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany from Axel Bruns
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.
