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- Title
Journalistic Views on Hard and Soft News: Cross-Validating a Popular Concept in a Factorial Survey.
- Authors
Glogger, Isabella; Otto, Lukas P.
- Abstract
Despite the popularity of the concept of hard and soft news, researchers regularly criticize the vague definitions and inconsistent conceptualizations. Following claims for standardization of concept in journalism research, this article aims to cross-validate the most recent understanding of the concept. We conducted a factorial survey with newspaper journalists to probe the question as to which of the theoretically assumed dimensions of the concept are referred to by journalists to distinguish hard from soft news. We find the dimensions "topic," "relevance," "framing," and "opinion" to exert influence on journalists' understanding of the concept.
- Subjects
JOURNALISTS' attitudes; JOURNALISM &; society; NEWSPAPER journalists; CONCEPTS; COMPREHENSION; FRAMES (Social sciences)
- Publication
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2019, Vol 96, Issue 3, p811
- ISSN
1077-6990
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1077699018815890