Newsrooms and transparency in the digital age

Kalyani Chadha; Michael Koliska

doi:10.1080/17512786.2014.924737

Newsrooms and transparency in the digital age

Kalyani Chadha^*, Michael Koliska

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Abstract

Facing a decline in public credibility, news organizations have been encouraged to embrace transparency to combat rising public distrust. In this paper, we examine how journalists at six leading news outlets in the United States grapple with the concept of transparency and its implementation in their newsrooms. Our data indicate that news outlets engage in a limited and strategic form of transparency that enable them to appear transparent without offering substantive insights into the journalistic process.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	215-229
Number of pages	15
Journal	Journalism Practice
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2014.924737
State	Published - Jan 1 2015
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Digital news
Institutional norms
Journalism
Journalistic openness
Newsroom culture
Organizational strategies
Transparency

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Communication

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