PESQUISA Como os blogs influenciam a prática jornalística

O jornalista norte-americano Paul Bradshaw publicou no Online Journalism Blog os resultados de um levantamento sobre a percepção dos jornalistas em relação ao uso dos blogs. Links para os resultados e análises [em inglês]:

• pt 1. Context and methodology
200 jornalistas blogueiros, de 30 países, responderam à pesquisa de Bradshaw. Mais da metade é da América do Norte. Cerca de 50% atua no jornalismo impresso; cerca de um terço, no meio on-line.

• pt 2. Blogs and news ideas: "The canary in the mine"

"There is evidence of an increasing disintermediation of the editor’s role - understandably, as the editorial role of determining the reader’s identity and needs is undermined when writers, through their blogs, have a closer, more immediate and reliable access to that information."

• pt 3. Blogs and story research: "We swapped info"

"As highlighted previously, blogging journalists report finding it easier to find sources who don’t come from a government agency or professional association, and to keep up with events they are not participating in.
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But for some the pressure to publish meant more reliance on rumours, and less rigorous research, with the onus placed on blog readers to clarify and fact-check."

• pt 4. Blogs and news production: "I think in hyperlinks, even when working in print"

"Perhaps the most significant change was in the way that blogs provided a platform for stories or detail that would otherwise not make the print or broadcast version at all. Respondents talked of augmenting coverage that 'would otherwise fall in the cracks', of pieces that were interesting, but wouldn’t merit space in the paper, or that use elements that “don’t necessarily fit into the rigid lengths of radio pieces.'"

• pt 5. Post-publication: "You've got to be ready for that conversation"

"The ability to enter into correspondence with users, to fix errors and post updates were frequently identified as changing journalistic work, turning on its head Lowrey’s sugestion that bloggers 'often emphasise immediacy and opinion at the expense of accuracy' (2006) and that journalism would protect itself by focusing on editing; responses suggest that, conversely, journalists are relying on commenters to contribute to the editing process."