“Engaged” Journalism: Studying the News Industry’s Changing Relationship with the Public
“Engaged” Journalism: Studying the News Industry’s Changing Relationship with the Public
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“参与式”新闻业：研究新闻业与公众关系的变化
作者：
Andrea D. Wenzel;J. L. Nelson
随着地球仪的记者继续面对不信任的观众和不确定的经济，许多人开始尝试新的新闻制作和社区参与形式，希望解决新闻行业的弊病。这些努力往往特别侧重于改善记者与他们所报道的社区之间的关系，通常是试图在讲述他们的故事的过程中为这些社区提供更多的代理（Ferrer-Conill and Tandoc 2018; Lawrence，Radcliffe，and施密特2018;纳尔逊2018; Wenzel 2017）。例如，许多新闻编辑室现在使用像Hearken和GroundSource这样的受众参与公司提供的工具来征求社区成员的问题或为他们提供互动信息。其他一些媒体则开始举办“公共新闻编辑室”和“倾听会”，以提高记者对读者的了解，以及他们对新闻的期望。还有一些公司正在从广告支持的收入模式过渡到会员支持的收入模式，希望创造一种经济激励，以更好地为受众服务。新闻行业围绕这些创新的兴奋伴随着越来越多的学术研究，重点是它们的实施，以及它们对新闻业和公众的影响。这些研究倾向于探索重要的问题，例如：这些创新有多大可能持续下去？应如何衡量和/或货币化？他们在多大程度上改变了新闻业的角色和规范？也许最重要的是，他们希望影响的观众是如何解释他们的？《新闻实践》的这期特刊将通过汇集专注于这些“参与”新闻制作方法的原始研究来调查这些问题。成功的提交将在理论上和方法上严格，并将解决新的方法，概念化和从事新闻工作的做法。这些主题可能包括但不限于：
As journalists across the globe continue to face distrustful audiences and uncertain economics, many have begun experimenting with novel forms of news production and community engagement with the hope of solving the news industry’s ails. These efforts tend to focus specifically on improving the relationship between journalists and the communities they cover, often by attempting to provide those communities with more agency in the process by which their stories are told (Ferrer-Conill and Tandoc 2018; Lawrence, Radcliffe, and Schmidt 2018; Nelson 2018; Wenzel 2017). For example, many newsrooms now use tools provided by audience engagement companies like Hearken and GroundSource to solicit questions from community members or provide themwith interactive information. Others have begun hosting “public newsrooms” and “listening sessions” in order to improve journalists’ understanding of who their readers are and what they expect from the news. And still others are transitioning from ad-supported to membership-supported revenue models in hopes of creating a financial incentive to better serve their audiences. The excitement within the news industry surrounding these innovations has been accompanied by a growing number of academic studies focused on their implementation, as well as their implications for journalism and the public. These studies tend to explore important questions, such as: How likely are these innovations to endure? How should they be measured and/or monetized? To what extent are they changing journalism roles and norms? And perhaps most importantly, how are they interpreted by the very audiences they hope to affect? This special issue of Journalism Practice will investigate these issues, by bringing together original research focused on these “engaged” approaches to news production. Successful submissions will be theoretically and methodologically rigorous, and will address new methods, conceptualizations and practices for engagement in journalism. These topics may include, but are not limited to: