Audience Expectations of Media Accountability: More Professionalization of Journalism
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| Publication date | 2013 |
| Journal | Conference papers: International Communication Association: annual meeting |
| Event | 63rd Annual International Communication Association Conference |
| Volume | Issue number | 2013 |
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| Abstract |
Citizens in the Netherlands demand that news media are transparent and responsive to audiences. But above all, these citizens expect journalism to adopt a more professional manner of self-regulation in order to strengthen news quality. These are the main findings from a large-scale representative survey - the first of its kind - on audience perceptions of news media accountability. Additional results show that citizens are interested in news, but not in the workings of journalism. Only (really small) minorities like to be actively involved in journalism and its accountability mechanisms. This clarifies why the audience supports a professional liability model of news media accountability rather than a social discursive one.
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| Document type | Article |
| Note | Proceedings title: Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Hilton Metropole Hotel, London, England, Jun 17, 2013 Publisher: International Communication Association Place of publication: Washington, DC |
| Language | English |
| Published at | http://citation.allacademic.com/meta/p638036_index.html |
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