Journal Description
Electronic News is a quarterly journal devoted to advancing knowledge and understanding of the news as disseminated through electronic media channels. This is the official journal of the Broadcast and Mobile Journalism Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication
Electronic News promotes and publishes research and ideas with clear relevance to the content, practice, education, and administration of news across radio, television, mobile, web, social, and streaming platforms.
Electronic News bridges between scholars and practitioners, providing opportunities to publish and read applied research, invited essays, and reviews of books relevant to electronic news as an evolving and dynamic practice.
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
Journal Description
- by Stan JastrzebskiElectronic News, Ahead of Print. Even though U.S. public broadcasting has existed for more than 50 years, little research has been done on the attitudes of its journalists. This study, based on a sample of 394 U.S. public media journalists, represents the largest-scale effort to date to catalog the professional values and beliefs of these professionals. Our findings suggest these journalists are more liberal than both the U.S. population and commercial journalists, though they find it important not to be seen as partisan in their work. And while more people of color work in public broadcasting than in commercial media, […]
- by Gizachew Nemomsa EranfenoElectronic News, Ahead of Print. This study examines the diversity of news sourcing in Ethiopian TV channels, utilizing Critical Political Economy approach. It analyses 1167 news stories from 2019 to 2021 and interviews with 25 journalists. The study reveals disparity in the representation of peripheral communities, despite the utilization of various news sources. This indicates that diversifying news sources alone does not guarantee equal representation of diverse voices. Economic limitations, editorial decisions, and language barriers confine news gathering to specific geographic regions. Journalists’ limited autonomy and newsroom culture contribute to prioritizing government affairs thereby limiting diversity of voices. The study […]
- by Stephanie A. LongoElectronic News, Ahead of Print.
- by Chad WhittleElectronic News, Ahead of Print. Daily news podcasts continue to grow as a source of news and information for media consumers as more are seeking to consume news on digital platforms. However, studies on news podcasting are still a new area of research. This study expands a preliminary study to a broader, more national U.S. audience. The current research used an online survey to gather data and provides a broader demographic sample size with various participants across the United States. In addition, this study used the uses and gratifications approach to provide a more thorough analysis of why U.S. listeners […]
- by Sean R. SadriElectronic News, Ahead of Print. Utilizing framing theory, the present study examined gender differences in Iranian state-run media and alternative media portrayals of elite athlete emigration. By analyzing 704 online news articles published between 2007 and 2022 and comparing gender disparities, the study provides insights into the framing narratives used by a nation without a free press to undermine gender equity and national dialogues about sport. The study determined that male athletes received disproportionally high framing coverage over time, but this gender imbalance shifted to the inverse in 2020. This can be attributed to a sudden influx of prominent female […]
- by Stone GrissomElectronic News, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 125-133, June 2024. The rise of digital platforms and the demand for multi-platform content have revolutionized the news industry. Evolving technology has caused a crisis for the local linear broadcast market due to a lack of competitive wages and recruitment of talent. Local news is no longer tied to the traditional linear model and must adapt to a multi-platform distribution model. However, local stations seem tied to short-sighted financial policies that are antithetical to long-term recruitment and retention of top talent. These policies threaten to undermine the industry's own future and create a […]
- by Alyssa AppelmanElectronic News, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 67-82, June 2024. This experiment (N = 300) tests the effects of numbers and math errors in online news articles. Several readers struggled to recall and recognize the numbers and math errors in the articles, but there were significant effects of thinking they saw them—Regardless of experimental condition, readers who noticed (or imagined) numbers reported higher content quality, and readers who noticed (or imagined) errors reported lower content and source quality. Findings are discussed through the Heuristic-Systematic Processing Model, and implications for media trust are explored.
- by Kareem El DamanhouryElectronic News, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 83-106, June 2024. Academic literature points to proximity, including geographic, political, economic, and cultural, as a key news value that influences media attention, sourcing, and visual framing across conflicts. Focusing on the prolonged Nile Dam crisis that has put Egypt and Ethiopia on the verge of military conflict, the study uses quantitative and qualitative content analyses to explore how China, Qatar and the UK's proximity to Egypt and Ethiopia relates to the framing of the conflict in China Global Television Network (CGTN), Al Jazeera English (AJE), and British Broadcasting Corporation's (BBC) English-language news […]
- by Alex LuchsingerElectronic News, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 107-124, June 2024. This exploratory study analyzes television news transcripts (N = 300) to examine how broadcast news networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) and cable news networks (CNN, Fox, and MSNBC) cover military veterans and service members in news programming. Findings show that the stories and sources of broadcast news networks focused on veterans and service members or their families, while cable news networks relied on legislative issues, politicians and other elite sources. Other findings and recommendations are discussed.
- by Ran WeiElectronic News, Ahead of Print. This study explores the perceived effects of political ads that appeared on social media in the 2012 presidential campaign from a third-person effect perspective. Results of a survey using a probability sample of 496 college students indicated that the respondents tend to believe that political ads on social media have a greater influence on others than on themselves. However, the more desirable they viewed such ads, the more they admitted the ads to having influenced themselves. Finally, third-person perception of political ads on social media was found to be a positive predictor of engagement in […]