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- Title
Peeling Back the Onion: Formative Agenda Building in Business Journalism.
- Authors
RAGAS, MATTHEW W.; TRAN, HAI L.
- Abstract
This study looks beyond evidence of effects in news media content to examine factors journalists perceive as influencing their selection of sources for story ideas--the formative stage of agenda building. Survey data from a large sample of business journalists (N = 782) collected in three years help identify distinctive dimensions of business journalists' reliance on resources for story idea generation, the impact of journalists' characteristics, and the mediating role of source credibility. The findings provide new empirical insights into the multiple dimensions--or layers of the metaphorical onion (McCombs, 1992, 2014)--that collectively shape the media agenda as well as the broader process in which business journalists decide what makes news. The conceptual, methodological, and practical implications of the study are discussed.
- Subjects
PRESS; JOURNALISTS; BUSINESS journalism; SURVEYS; EMPIRICAL research
- Publication
International Journal of Communication (19328036), 2019, Vol 13, p4465
- ISSN
1932-8036
- Publication type
Article