This study draws on interviews with 12 journalists in a Canadian newsroom to examine how they understand source diversification, how they perceive AI-based source-tracking technology, and how their reflections illuminate discourse on race and accountability in journalism. Based on semi-structured interviews conducted after a demonstration of the technology, the analysis identifies the motivations and barriers shaping source diversification, including professional norms, representational goals, time constraints, and institutional culture. Reporters express commitments to inclusive sourcing, but remain constrained by routines that privilege official voices, anticipated by research analysis like framing and indexing theories. Participants describe the AI tool, which quantitatively scores sources according to their relationship to societal power structures, as a potential catalyst for reflective practice and accountability. They also suggest the technology may sit uneasily within professional norms. The study is contextualized in research about role performance and race in newsrooms. Finally, this AI-based source-tracking technology resituates journalism within a Bourdieusian field, pulled toward social and cultural capital in relation to structural racism.
This paper identifies and analyses a distinctive journalistic practice in Iranian political news reporting, termed the “projecting voice”. This practice, observed in reports from both conservative (
Kayhan
) and reformist (
Etemaad
) newspapers, involves a near-complete absence of explicit authorial/journalist op...
The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into journalism has improved production efficiency but raised concerns about its potential to compromise content quality and undermine journalists’ professional capacity. These tensions are particularly pronounced in China, where AI deployment in journalism intersects wit...
This study surveys 110 editors from first- and second-quartile journals indexed in Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports to examine how they evaluate and respond to calls to de-westernize and diversify communication and media scholarship through the inclusion of Global South perspectives and scholars. The findings show...
Francisco Paulo Jamil Marques, Sujatha Sosale, Brian Ekdale et al.· International Journal of Com...· 0 citations
Aim
This paper examines the decay of trust as a central feature of contemporary social division.
Methodology
This paper employs an integrative conceptual review methodology, synthesizing ideas from published and accessible sources to develop a broader account of trust decay. The paper draws on current published and...
Literature on artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in journalism is expanding rapidly. Yet it remains disproportionately focused on Western contexts, ignoring how AI is perceived and negotiated in marginalized or semi-peripheral markets. This article focuses on how journalists in Albania, Croatia, Kosovo, North Ma...
D. Gërguri, Jennifer Sorrells, Gheorghe Anghel et al.· Media and Communication· 0 citations
News headlines are brief, yet they often shape public understanding of news events. In reports on women scientists, this framing role is especially important because major scientific awards should foreground professional contribution, scholarly evaluation, and scientific breakthrough, while social media platforms inten...
Xi Meng· Communications in Humanities...· 0 citations
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