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TWITTER AS A NEWS SOURCE: How Dutch and British newspapers used tweets in their news coverage, 2007–2011
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Twitter has become a convenient, cheap and effective beat for journalists in search of news and information. Reporters today increasingly aggregate information online and embed it in journalism discourse. In this paper, we analyse how tweets have increasingly been included as quotes in newspaper reporting during the rise of Twitter from 2007 to 2011. The paper compares four Dutch and four British national tabloids and broadsheets, asking if tabloid journalists are relying more on this second-hand coverage than their colleagues from quality papers. Moreover, we investigate in which sections of the paper tweets are included and what kinds of sources are quoted. Consequently, we present a typology of the functions tweets have in news reports. Reporters do include these utterances as either newsworthy or to support or illustrate a story. In some cases, individual tweets or interaction between various agents on Twitter even triggers news coverage. We argue that this new discursive practice alters the balance of power between journalists and sources.
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- Authors
- Broersma, M., & Graham, T.
- Venue
- Journalism Practice
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-08
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 446-464
- ISSN
- 1751-2786 (ISSN-L)
- 1751-2794
- OpenAlex
- W1541661015
- Cited by
- 311
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 60.65
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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