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MAI on the organizational level Part 2 – Practices
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MAI on the organizational levelPart 2 – Practices
By Huub Evers, Harmen Groenhart & Klaus Bichler
Session 8
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In lecture B we illustrate MAI on the organizational level in practice. The two main questions in this course are:
1. How do journalists perceive MAI on the level of news organizations?
2. What are good examples of news organization MAI in practice?
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Question 1:
How do journalists perceive MAI on the level of news organizations?
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Journalists tend to adhere much value to transparency …
MediaAcT survey data: Mean scores of total sample (N=1762) on the question: “News media should….”
…especially concerning newsroom sender transparency, and less concerning product transparency and process transparency.
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explain its news decision processes in a specialsection, like a weblog or a rubric
provide links to the original sources of a journalisticpiece
publish its mission statement
publish a code of ethics
disclose ownership and affiliations (if any)
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Journalists tend to adhere much value to audience interaction…
MediaAcT survey data: Mean scores of total sample (N=1762) on the question: “News media should….”
…especially when it comes to direct communication. However, active audience participation is valued less.
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allow users online opportunities to participate in the production of news stories
respond to users' comments/suggestions
employ an ombudsman/readers editor
provide online opportunities to communicate directly with journalists, for example via Facebook …
provide a contact for complaints about content
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And there are clear international differences in the perceived importance of audience interaction
Source: MediaAcT survey data
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Moreover, perceptions depend on the type of news organization journalists are employed at…
Table 1. Media segment effect on the view of media accountability.a-b, x-y Horizontally read, the mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level
Source: MediaAcT survey data
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…and job position and age also affect perception on media accountability.
Table 2. The effect of job position and age on views about media accountability.a-b; x-y Horizontally read, the mean difference is significant at the 0.05 level
Source: MediaAcT survey data
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Question 2:
What are good examples of news organization MAI in practice?
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eEditor
• chat box • get in contact with journalists• every day from 6am to 9pm• on the front page
• users can suggest topics, report mistakes, ask questions or give feedback
• it has increased the number of unique visitors, acts as an ombudsperson and a correction button
• Swedish newspaper Norran http://norran.se/
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Journalists’/company’s blogs
• Promotes transparency of sources and transparency of professional decision making.
• Gives insights to production processes.
• Easily implemented. • Editors’ Blog of the BBC News http://bbc.in/NuApK • Swiss local newspaper Interna Blog
http://bit.ly/JaWhDU
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La Repubblica domani• La Repubblica domani is an open newsroom conference. • It reveals news production processes as the most important editorial
meetings are broadcasted online (not streamed live, but available online).• The users can see how journalists justify their choices, comment the news
and discuss the paper’s issues.
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Correction or error buttons
• Major aspect open error management. • Esp. in online publishing many tools that foster an
open and transparent error management are available.
• Berliner Morgenpost “Leider falsch” http://www.morgenpost.de/berlinaktuell/article1077710/
• Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger http://www.tagesanzeiger.ch
• Swiss free newspaper 20Minuten http://www.20min.ch, http://www.20min.ch/ro/
• Dutch public service broadcaster NOS’ website www.nos.nl/nos/herstel/
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Open News List
• The open newsroom policy of The Guardian is a remarkable concept. Next to many other tools, they offer their newslist to all users.
• Open Newslist: – Users are able to see which stories are
discussed or produced by the newspaper’s staff or what the editors think about their coverage.
– They get a notion of how the news is produced.
– They can post what they think of the stories or suggest ideas – all user-friendly via Twitter or via Email.
– It is easy and inexpensive to establish as it can be an embedded google doc http://bit.ly/o3gOAh.
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Readers’ Advisory Boards
• Includes the audience into reflection and production processes. • Composed of readers representing the diversity of the
audience.• Their “task” is to attend panels in the newspaper’s
headquarters and discuss their ideas, share their opinions and give feedback.
• Such tools ensure transparency, foster media literacy and have a high impact on the loyalty between user and medium
• German boulevard newspaper BILD http://bit.ly/MMsYPn• Austrian local newspaper Vorarlberger Nachrichten
http://bit.ly/OZ3dwT• Swiss boulevard newspaper Sonntagsblick http://bit.ly/Oo9MHG• Catalan newspaper El Punt http://bit.ly/QwmOVg
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De Haan, Y. 2011. Between Professional Autonomy and Public Responsibility. Accountability and Responsiveness in Dutch Media and Journalism. PhD diss., University of Amsterdam.
García-Avilés, J.-A., J.-L. González-Esteban, A. Kaltenbrunner, M. Karmasin. 2011. “Self-regulation and the new challenges in journalism: Comparative study across European countries”. Revista Latina de communication social, 66: 2011. http://www.revistalatinacs.org/11/art/940_Elche/19_EstebanEN.html
EthicNet (2013): Collecion of codes of journalism ethics in Europe. http://ethicnet.uta.fi/ethicnet_collection_of_codes_of_journalism_ethics_in_europe
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