How News Happens¶
Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism. (2010). How News Happens: A Study of the News Ecosystem of One American City.
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Domain-specific¶
- Original Reporting
- When original reporting capacity is lost — as with the collapse of local newsrooms whose reporters covered courts, city councils, and regulatory agencies from direct attendance — the entire chain above that layer degrades, with no amount of secondary aggregation able to substitute for the absent primary evidence.
This sourceA one-city news-ecosystem study finding that eight in ten stories repeated existing information and 95% of newly reported information originated with traditional media, mostly newspapers.
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“Fully eight out of ten stories studied simply repeated or repackaged previously published information.”
- When original reporting capacity is lost — as with the collapse of local newsrooms whose reporters covered courts, city councils, and regulatory agencies from direct attendance — the entire chain above that layer degrades, with no amount of secondary aggregation able to substitute for the absent primary evidence.
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