@article{ref1,
title="What makes news newsworthy: an experimental test of where a news story is published (or not) and its perceived newsworthiness",
journal="International journal of press/politics, The",
year="2021",
author="Hassell, Hans J. G.",
volume="26",
number="3",
pages="654-673",
abstract="Previous research has attributed media convergence to, among other things, where the news was originally published. That research, however, has struggled to identify causal relationships between a news item's publication in a particular outlet and journalists' perceptions of a story's newsworthiness. This relationship is difficult to identify because of the correlation between publication in a particular outlet and many other factors that also impact newsworthiness. This paper uses an experiment embedded within a survey of over 1,500 U.S. political journalists to test the impact of a news story's previous publication history on journalists' views of the newsworthiness of that news item. Compared with previously unpublished stories, the publication of a news story in a national paper has no significant positive effect on the perceived newsworthiness of a story. The origin of a story in a local outlet, however, causes journalists to perceive that story to be less newsworthy.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1940-1612",
doi="10.1177/1940161220947321",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1940161220947321"
}