Abstract
This study examines the extent to which professional journalism adopts and uses citizen journalism, such as user-generated content (UGC) and user-submitted stories (USS), at the individual, organizational, and community levels. In doing so, the study adopts a web-based survey of top U.S. news editors (n = 142) coupled with U.S. Census Data. The study reveals that experience as online journalists and online staff size play roles in the adoption and use of UGC. The study also finds that community structural pluralism is related to the adoption and use of news stories written together by professional and citizen journalists.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 399-420 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Journal | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly |
| Volume | 92 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 1 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2015 AEJMC.
Keywords
- Citizen journalism
- Community structural pluralism
- News editors
- Professional journalism
- User-generated content (UGC)
- User-submitted stories (USS)
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Communication