Bruce Garrison
Biographic Data
| ID | 300736 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Garrison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Garrison |
| SIGNATURE | GARRISON B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1967-852X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 144 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Private and public ownership in the drive toward digital innovations in newspaper newsrooms
This research explores the impact of ownership on innovations in U.S. newspaper newsrooms by constructing a structural equation model (SEM). The study, using an online survey (N = 1,063), found that social media triggers a paradigm shift—newspapers owned by publicly held, for-profit companies excel in social media innovations and create more social media friendly innovations milieus than newspapers owned by privately held, for-profit companies. J…
Ethical use of new technologies: Where do Indian journalists stand
While the study of the ethical use of new technologies in journalistic work is imperative given the widespread use of such technology, such studies are few and far between, particularly for the developing world. This paper provides results of an exploratory, qualitative study of Indian journalists’ views about the ethical use of new computer and Internet-based technologies for news gathering and reporting in India. New digital technology was wide…
Study Shows Some Blogs Affect Traditional News Media Agendas
This study, which explored the source interaction between elite traditional news media and political filter blogs, found traditional news media frequently cite blogs in their coverage, but the source attribution to the blogs is often vague
The Meaning and Influence of Convergence: A qualitative case study of newsroom work at the Tampa News Center
In March 2000, Media General attracted considerable industry attention in the United States when it opened the Tampa News Center and placed the operations of The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV, and the Tampa Bay Online service under the same roof. To understand the meaning of this media convergence experiment, the changes in the newsroom culture, and the type of job skills necessary in a convergent newsroom, we analyzed relevant trade press accounts and …
Professional Feature Writing
This text offers the basics of news media feature writing and guides motivated beginners down the right path toward success as professional feature writers. This fourth edition gives advanced writers and reporters a thorough look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers and consumer magazines. Three primary aspects of feature writing are emphasized: introduction and writing skills/basics, arti…
Newspaper Journalists Use E-Mail to Gather News
A survey of daily newspaper reporters and editors finds a growing role for e-mail in the newsroom, but journalists expressed concern about the security and credibility of the information found in e-mail
How Newspaper Reporters Use the Web to Gather News
This study found journalists use government sites most often to retrieve information. Problems include difficulty with verification, unreliable information and lack of contact information
The Prague Post ’s readership in postcommunist Czech Republic
This article presents a case study to analyse the readership and explore the role of an English‐language newspaper in a region where English is not the dominant language. This study focused on a weekly publication in the former Communist Czech Republic, The Prague Post, reports a 1999 readership survey and, through use of interviews of the managers of the newspaper at that time, interprets the findings of the readership survey. It compares result…
Diffusion of online information technologies in newspaper newsrooms
This study examined the spread of online information technologies within US daily newspaper newsrooms over a six-year period beginning in 1994. Since the general public and news media began to embrace the internet and world wide web in early 1994, a process of adoption of this interactive innovation by newspapers occurred. The longitudinal survey data revealed that use of interactive information-gathering technologies in newsrooms has reached a c…
Feature Review: Cyberage Books on the Internet and World Wide Web
Diffusion of a New Technology: On-line Research in Newspaper Newsrooms
This paper reviews diffusion of on-line research at daily newspapers in the USA during a five-year period from 1994 to 1998. Diffusion literature indicates new technical innovations require certain social and economic conditions and other factors before adoption begins. Once the adoption process begins, it takes place in stages before reaching critical mass. Data collected in this study confirms Everett M. Rogers' process model. The World Wide We…
Finding Their Place in Journalism: Newspaper Sports Journalists' Professional “Problems
This study examined sports journalists' beliefs about the problems in their field. It used a combination of a standardized survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The sports journalists saw their concerns as distinctly different from those of journalists in other news departments. Still, there were areas of shared concern, including professionalism and economic and job-related issues. Open-ended interviews with a representative sample of the sp…
Newspaper Sports Journalists: A Profile of the 'Profession
Computerization of the newspaper in the 1980's
The purpose of this research article is to review new technological developments applied to the newspaper. More specifically, the intent is to review literature relating to computerization of the newspaper newsroom. Because many of the functions of the newspaper today are inter-related in production by the computer, the newspaper's technological developments cannot be discussed without consideration of changes in other departments as well. Attent…
Selected bibliography: Computerization and the newsroom
The bibliography comprises scholarly and professional literature on computerization and the newsroom, published in the last seven years. It is also an extension of the article preceded by this bibliography
Institutional Stress: Journalistic Norms in the Catholic Press
The Meaning and Influence of Convergence: A qualitative case study of newsroom work at the Tampa News Center
In March 2000, Media General attracted considerable industry attention in the United States when it opened the Tampa News Center and placed the operations of The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV, and the Tampa Bay Online service under the same roof. To understand the meaning of this media convergence experiment, the changes in the newsroom culture, and the type of job skills necessary in a convergent newsroom, we analyzed relevant trade press accounts and …
Diffusion of online information technologies in newspaper newsrooms
This study examined the spread of online information technologies within US daily newspaper newsrooms over a six-year period beginning in 1994. Since the general public and news media began to embrace the internet and world wide web in early 1994, a process of adoption of this interactive innovation by newspapers occurred. The longitudinal survey data revealed that use of interactive information-gathering technologies in newsrooms has reached a c…
Finding Their Place in Journalism: Newspaper Sports Journalists' Professional “Problems
This study examined sports journalists' beliefs about the problems in their field. It used a combination of a standardized survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The sports journalists saw their concerns as distinctly different from those of journalists in other news departments. Still, there were areas of shared concern, including professionalism and economic and job-related issues. Open-ended interviews with a representative sample of the sp…
Diffusion of a New Technology: On-line Research in Newspaper Newsrooms
This paper reviews diffusion of on-line research at daily newspapers in the USA during a five-year period from 1994 to 1998. Diffusion literature indicates new technical innovations require certain social and economic conditions and other factors before adoption begins. Once the adoption process begins, it takes place in stages before reaching critical mass. Data collected in this study confirms Everett M. Rogers' process model. The World Wide We…
Newspaper Sports Journalists: A Profile of the 'Profession
How Newspaper Reporters Use the Web to Gather News
This study found journalists use government sites most often to retrieve information. Problems include difficulty with verification, unreliable information and lack of contact information
Study Shows Some Blogs Affect Traditional News Media Agendas
This study, which explored the source interaction between elite traditional news media and political filter blogs, found traditional news media frequently cite blogs in their coverage, but the source attribution to the blogs is often vague
Newspaper Journalists Use E-Mail to Gather News
A survey of daily newspaper reporters and editors finds a growing role for e-mail in the newsroom, but journalists expressed concern about the security and credibility of the information found in e-mail
Ethical use of new technologies: Where do Indian journalists stand
While the study of the ethical use of new technologies in journalistic work is imperative given the widespread use of such technology, such studies are few and far between, particularly for the developing world. This paper provides results of an exploratory, qualitative study of Indian journalists’ views about the ethical use of new computer and Internet-based technologies for news gathering and reporting in India. New digital technology was wide…
Computerization of the newspaper in the 1980's
The purpose of this research article is to review new technological developments applied to the newspaper. More specifically, the intent is to review literature relating to computerization of the newspaper newsroom. Because many of the functions of the newspaper today are inter-related in production by the computer, the newspaper's technological developments cannot be discussed without consideration of changes in other departments as well. Attent…
Selected bibliography: Computerization and the newsroom
The bibliography comprises scholarly and professional literature on computerization and the newsroom, published in the last seven years. It is also an extension of the article preceded by this bibliography
Institutional Stress: Journalistic Norms in the Catholic Press
Newspaper Sports Journalists: A Profile of the 'Profession
Finding Their Place in Journalism: Newspaper Sports Journalists' Professional “Problems
This study examined sports journalists' beliefs about the problems in their field. It used a combination of a standardized survey and in-depth follow-up interviews. The sports journalists saw their concerns as distinctly different from those of journalists in other news departments. Still, there were areas of shared concern, including professionalism and economic and job-related issues. Open-ended interviews with a representative sample of the sp…
Feature Review: Cyberage Books on the Internet and World Wide Web
Diffusion of a New Technology: On-line Research in Newspaper Newsrooms
This paper reviews diffusion of on-line research at daily newspapers in the USA during a five-year period from 1994 to 1998. Diffusion literature indicates new technical innovations require certain social and economic conditions and other factors before adoption begins. Once the adoption process begins, it takes place in stages before reaching critical mass. Data collected in this study confirms Everett M. Rogers' process model. The World Wide We…
The Prague Post ’s readership in postcommunist Czech Republic
This article presents a case study to analyse the readership and explore the role of an English‐language newspaper in a region where English is not the dominant language. This study focused on a weekly publication in the former Communist Czech Republic, The Prague Post, reports a 1999 readership survey and, through use of interviews of the managers of the newspaper at that time, interprets the findings of the readership survey. It compares result…
Diffusion of online information technologies in newspaper newsrooms
This study examined the spread of online information technologies within US daily newspaper newsrooms over a six-year period beginning in 1994. Since the general public and news media began to embrace the internet and world wide web in early 1994, a process of adoption of this interactive innovation by newspapers occurred. The longitudinal survey data revealed that use of interactive information-gathering technologies in newsrooms has reached a c…
How Newspaper Reporters Use the Web to Gather News
This study found journalists use government sites most often to retrieve information. Problems include difficulty with verification, unreliable information and lack of contact information
Professional Feature Writing
This text offers the basics of news media feature writing and guides motivated beginners down the right path toward success as professional feature writers. This fourth edition gives advanced writers and reporters a thorough look at newspaper, magazine, newsletter, and online publications, with emphasis on daily newspapers and consumer magazines. Three primary aspects of feature writing are emphasized: introduction and writing skills/basics, arti…
Newspaper Journalists Use E-Mail to Gather News
A survey of daily newspaper reporters and editors finds a growing role for e-mail in the newsroom, but journalists expressed concern about the security and credibility of the information found in e-mail
The Meaning and Influence of Convergence: A qualitative case study of newsroom work at the Tampa News Center
In March 2000, Media General attracted considerable industry attention in the United States when it opened the Tampa News Center and placed the operations of The Tampa Tribune, WFLA-TV, and the Tampa Bay Online service under the same roof. To understand the meaning of this media convergence experiment, the changes in the newsroom culture, and the type of job skills necessary in a convergent newsroom, we analyzed relevant trade press accounts and …
Study Shows Some Blogs Affect Traditional News Media Agendas
This study, which explored the source interaction between elite traditional news media and political filter blogs, found traditional news media frequently cite blogs in their coverage, but the source attribution to the blogs is often vague
Ethical use of new technologies: Where do Indian journalists stand
While the study of the ethical use of new technologies in journalistic work is imperative given the widespread use of such technology, such studies are few and far between, particularly for the developing world. This paper provides results of an exploratory, qualitative study of Indian journalists’ views about the ethical use of new computer and Internet-based technologies for news gathering and reporting in India. New digital technology was wide…
Private and public ownership in the drive toward digital innovations in newspaper newsrooms
This research explores the impact of ownership on innovations in U.S. newspaper newsrooms by constructing a structural equation model (SEM). The study, using an online survey (N = 1,063), found that social media triggers a paradigm shift—newspapers owned by publicly held, for-profit companies excel in social media innovations and create more social media friendly innovations milieus than newspapers owned by privately held, for-profit companies. J…
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