Tag Archives: USA Today

Citing blogs without proper attribution

Posted on September 4, 2011 by marcusmessner

My latest journal publication, which just appeared in the summer issue of the Newspaper Research Journal, tracks the source relationship between traditional news media and blogs. In the study, my co-author Bruce Garrison from the University of Miami’s School of … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Journalism, Legacy Media, Politics, Research, Social Media | Tagged AEJMC, Agenda Setting, Attribution, Blogs, Citation, CNN, Election, Fox News, Intermedia, LA Times, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, Sources, TV, USA Today, Washington Post | Leave a comment

New study: Wikipedia’s use for news reports

Posted on April 5, 2011 by marcusmessner

Journalism Practice has published one of my studies that analyzes how national newspapers in the United States increasingly use Wikipedia as a source in their articles. The study “How US national newspapers frame and use the online encyclopedia in their … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media | Tagged AEJMC, Agenda Setting, Christian Science Monior, framing, Journalism Practice, LA Times, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, Sources, USA Today, VCU, Washington Post, Wikipedia | Leave a comment

Shoveling tweets: Traditional media and their use of Twitter

Posted on April 1, 2011 by marcusmessner

The International Symposium on Online Journalism in Austin hosted a research panel on Twitter. I presented a study that I conducted with two of my recent graduate students, Maureen Linke and Asriel Eford, from our Multimedia Journalism Master’s Program at … Continue reading →

Posted in International, Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media | Tagged ABC, Audience, Bookmarking, CBS, CNN, Community, Facebook, Fox News, ISOJ, LA Times, MySpace, NBC, New York Times, Newspaper, Sharing, Shovelware, Social Media, Strategy, Technology, Twitter, USA Today, VCU, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post | Leave a comment

Social media “an essential mode of communication”

Posted on February 21, 2011 by marcusmessner

In today’s issue, USA Today takes a look at the latest social media trends found in a survey study. The article “Women, young adults are active ‘social animals’” stresses that the group of 18- to 34-year-olds is the most active … Continue reading →

Posted in Legacy Media, Politics, Public Relations, Research, Social Media, Teaching | Tagged Audience, Business, Campaigns, Egypt, Facebook, Newspaper, Strategy, Twitter, USA Today, Women, Youth, YouTube | 1 Comment

Newspapers legitimize Wikipedia

Posted on September 15, 2010 by marcusmessner

National newspapers in the United States increasingly use Wikipedia as a source in their articles. A new study, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of Journalism Practice, found that despite the perceived skepticism among journalists the online encyclopedia … Continue reading →

Posted in Journalism, Legacy Media, Research, Social Media | Tagged Agenda Setting, Christian Scien, framing, LA Times, New York Times, Newspaper, Social Media, Sources, USA Today, Washington Post, Wikipedia | Leave a comment

Blog sources have no name

Posted on August 24, 2010 by marcusmessner

At this year’s AEJMC conference in Denver, Bruce Garrison from the University of Miami and I presented a research paper (“Sources without a name”) that tracked the source relationship between traditional news media and blogs. In the study, we applied … Continue reading →