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Abstract
Live blogs, also known as live pages or streams, allow journalists to report on events, including breaking news stories, as they happen. Their prevalence and popularity make them an important format, through which many of the developments in contemporary journalism can be observed and analysed. Using the Egyptian revolution of 2011 as a case study, we carried out a large-scale content analysis across six national UK news publishers, to analyse the differences and similarities between live blogs (n=75), traditional online news articles (n=842), and print articles (n=148). The findings reveal significant differences, for example the extent to which live blogs quote their sources directly and, also, rely on previously-published media reports as a source. The findings demonstrate how, with the expansion of real-time online reporting, journalism may be becoming more transparent yet also more reflexive; prompting, perhaps, reassessments and even redefinitions of media plurality and journalistic objectivity.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Form of publication: | Submitted Version |
| Keywords: | live blogs, live blogging, sourcing practices, online journalism, forms of news |
| Faculties: | Social Sciences > Communication |
| Subjects: | 000 Computer science, information and general works > 070 News media, journalism and publishing |
| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-29949-3 |
| ISBN: | 978-1-138-88796-1 ; 978-1-315-71379-3 |
| Place of Publication: | London ; New York |
| Annotation: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge, available online: https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Digital-Journalism-Studies/Franklin-Eldridge-II/p/book/9781138887961# |
| Language: | English |
| Item ID: | 29949 |
| Date Deposited: | 10. Mar 2017, 12:21 |
| Last Modified: | 15. Dec 2020, 09:20 |
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