Study about social media utilization in news presented in Toronto

In August 2019, I presented a study "Journalism practice in a digital age: Utilization of social media in online news" at the AEJMC annual conference which took place in Toronto, Canada. This research is the result of another fruitful cooperation with my friend and colleague Dr. Ivana Cvetkovic.

The study employed the gatekeeping perspective to examine what practices 10 prominent U.S.-based news websites embrace when deriving content and sources from social media. A thorough content analysis of 180 online news shows that journalists primarily rely on institutional, official sources when utilizing social media in the news production process. Furthermore, journalists are most likely to employ written information from Twitter in online news and publish such information in entertainment and politics sections.