Social Media & Society 2018
What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany
Axel Bruns, Christian Nuernbergk, and Aljosha Karim Schapals
- 20 July 2018 – Social Media & Society 2018, Copenhagen
What Journalists Share: A Comparative Study of the National Press Corps in Australia and Germany from Axel Bruns
Full paper available here (PDF).Abstract
Social media such as Twitter are now widely used by pro-fessional journalists in their day-to-day practice. Active use of such platforms for reporting the news and engaging with audiences requires a range of choices about the kind of public persona journalists wish to present; one key choice is what links to their own and other sources’ news stories they are prepared to share. This work-in-progress paper presents a comparative analysis of the news sharing choices of members of the Australian and German national press corps, showing considerably different selection patterns.