TY - JOUR
T1 - How journalists think while they write
T2 - A transcultural model of news decision making
AU - Zhong, Bu
AU - Newhagen, John E.
PY - 2009/9
Y1 - 2009/9
N2 - This study explored how U.S. and Chinese journalists (N = 120) made news decisions in a transcultural context. It proposed a model of news decision making, drawing on 3 intellectual traditions-media effects, study, cognitive psychology, and decision making. To test the model, it employed a 2×2×3 factorial repeated-measures design, where the factors were nationality (United States or China), beat (overseas or domestic), and repeated measure (story topic). Results confirmed the model's validity and showed that participants, regardless of nationality, used more effort in processing cognitive news elements and included them more in the stories than those at cultural or rational level. Surprisingly, the attention they gave to cognitive information was so counterintuitive that it might point to the possibility of an ever-increasing globalization in journalistic standards.
AB - This study explored how U.S. and Chinese journalists (N = 120) made news decisions in a transcultural context. It proposed a model of news decision making, drawing on 3 intellectual traditions-media effects, study, cognitive psychology, and decision making. To test the model, it employed a 2×2×3 factorial repeated-measures design, where the factors were nationality (United States or China), beat (overseas or domestic), and repeated measure (story topic). Results confirmed the model's validity and showed that participants, regardless of nationality, used more effort in processing cognitive news elements and included them more in the stories than those at cultural or rational level. Surprisingly, the attention they gave to cognitive information was so counterintuitive that it might point to the possibility of an ever-increasing globalization in journalistic standards.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=70350408748&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01439.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2009.01439.x
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:70350408748
SN - 0021-9916
VL - 59
SP - 587
EP - 608
JO - Journal of Communication
JF - Journal of Communication
IS - 3
ER -