Hard news, soft news, ‘general’ news: The necessity and utility of an intermediate classification
Hard news, soft news, ‘general’ news: The necessity and utility of an intermediate classification
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硬新闻、软新闻、“一般”新闻：中间分类的必要性和实用性
DOI：
10.1177/1464884909350642
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发表时间：
2010
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影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Michal Seletzky
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作者：
S. Lehman;Michal Seletzky
至少在过去的三十年里，新闻学者们一直专注于两种类型的新闻--软新闻和硬新闻--而没有重新评估这些类别，也没有增加它们。本文调查是否这种忽视是有道理的，通过问卷调查和深入采访32名记者和编辑从三个主要的以色列日报：新消息报，晚报和国土报。研究结果强烈认为，第三，中间类别的新闻-“一般新闻”-以及更严格和全面的定义“硬”新闻和“软”新闻，这里提供。这三个新闻类别，然后对上述日报的465个新闻项目进行测试，导致一个新的报纸类型的分类，位于精英和民粹主义媒体之间。这一增加的方法和实质性影响进行了讨论。
For at least the past three decades journalism scholars have focused on two types of news — soft and hard — without reassessing these categories or adding to them. The present article investigates whether such neglect is warranted, through a questionnaire and in-depth interviews with 32 journalists and editors from the three main Israeli dailies: Yediot Ahronot, Maariv and Haaretz. The findings argue strongly for a third, intermediate category of news — ‘general news’ — as well as for more rigorous and comprehensive definitions of ‘hard’ news and ‘soft’ news that are here supplied. These three news categories were then tested on 465 news items of the above dailies which led to the categorization of a new newspaper type, lying somewhere between the elite and populist press. Methodological and substantive ramifications of this addition are discussed.