Nicole Blanchett
Biographic Data
| ID | 4414040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicole Blanchett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicole |
| FAMILY NAME | Blanchett |
| SIGNATURE | BLANCHETT N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9444-2018 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 82 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom
The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create journalistic products is challenging the ethical standards in Canadian newsrooms and calling into question the efficacy of existing norms and practice worldwide. Ethical literacy related to the use of A.I. remains low in the industry at large, and with no standardized ethical practice, there is little understanding of how journalistic doxa might need to expand to keep up with technolo…
Is It Us or Them? The Challenge of Getting Journalists to Participate in Academic Research
For journalism research rooted in a sociological framework, gaining access to journalists is crucial for data collection. However, journalists are documentably difficult to recruit as participants, frequently due to limited time and resources in shrinking newsrooms, sometimes because of roadblocks put up by leery newsroom management. As part of the data collection process for the Canadian branch of the international Journalistic Role Performance …
The Conversation Canada and Journalistic Boundaries: A Case Study in the Challenges of Defining Journalism
Background: The Conversation Canada, a platform blending “journalistic flair” with “academic rigour,” often sees its articles republished by major news outlets. However, it does not meet government definitions of a journalistic organization, and only half of surveyed contributing academics consider their work journalism. Analysis: Using The Conversation Canada as a case study, this research explores the challenges of defining journalism, who cont…
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study
Studies suggest that, at the routine level, news beats function as unique “micro-cultures.” Exploring this “particularist” approach in news content, we compare how the interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news. Based on the second …
Catch, Engage, Retain: Audience-Oriented Journalistic Role Performance in Canada
To understand audience-oriented journalistic role performance, one must understand how journalists conceptualize and cater to their audience. Giving the audience what it wants is a complex endeavor, with varying goals and hybridized end results, in newsrooms with fewer resources serving increasingly polarized audiences. Through a triangulation of data—content analysis at the subdimension level to examine the range and hybridity of audience-orient…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Covid
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more…
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television
The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Rol…
Algorithms, Platforms, and Policy: The Changing Face of Canadian News Distribution
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics
The use of metrics and analytics is becoming pervasive in newsrooms the world over. However, there is a lack of consistent terminology in scholarly literature with regards to such practice and a dearth of studies that compare practice on a wider scale that prevents more holistic understanding of how audience data are being used on the newsroom floor. These issues are addressed with the development of a new participative gatekeeping model with thr…
Quantifying Quality: Negotiating Audience Participation and the Value of a Digital Story at NRK
The use of metrics and analytics at Norway's national broadcaster, NRK, allows the audience to participate in the news process, impacting story promotion, selection, and formatting. Cognizant of the inherent limitations of quantitative data, NRK created what employees describe as a qualitative analytics system, Janus. Janus was designed in an effort to better measure a digital story's journalistic value, but its use was sporadic. Conversely, anal…
News by Numbers: The evolution of analytics in journalism
Analytics are now embedded in newsroom practice. In a form of participative gatekeeping, the ability to track how the audience absorbs information is shaping editorial content. Although there is much discussion that engagement metrics, like time spent, are more important than pageviews, many advertisers are still more interested in clicks than counting time, some newsrooms still have pageview targets, and the pageviews metric is often used as a s…
News by Numbers: The evolution of analytics in journalism
Analytics are now embedded in newsroom practice. In a form of participative gatekeeping, the ability to track how the audience absorbs information is shaping editorial content. Although there is much discussion that engagement metrics, like time spent, are more important than pageviews, many advertisers are still more interested in clicks than counting time, some newsrooms still have pageview targets, and the pageviews metric is often used as a s…
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics
The use of metrics and analytics is becoming pervasive in newsrooms the world over. However, there is a lack of consistent terminology in scholarly literature with regards to such practice and a dearth of studies that compare practice on a wider scale that prevents more holistic understanding of how audience data are being used on the newsroom floor. These issues are addressed with the development of a new participative gatekeeping model with thr…
Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Covid
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more…
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television
The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Rol…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Is It Us or Them? The Challenge of Getting Journalists to Participate in Academic Research
For journalism research rooted in a sociological framework, gaining access to journalists is crucial for data collection. However, journalists are documentably difficult to recruit as participants, frequently due to limited time and resources in shrinking newsrooms, sometimes because of roadblocks put up by leery newsroom management. As part of the data collection process for the Canadian branch of the international Journalistic Role Performance …
Quantifying Quality: Negotiating Audience Participation and the Value of a Digital Story at NRK
The use of metrics and analytics at Norway's national broadcaster, NRK, allows the audience to participate in the news process, impacting story promotion, selection, and formatting. Cognizant of the inherent limitations of quantitative data, NRK created what employees describe as a qualitative analytics system, Janus. Janus was designed in an effort to better measure a digital story's journalistic value, but its use was sporadic. Conversely, anal…
Catch, Engage, Retain: Audience-Oriented Journalistic Role Performance in Canada
To understand audience-oriented journalistic role performance, one must understand how journalists conceptualize and cater to their audience. Giving the audience what it wants is a complex endeavor, with varying goals and hybridized end results, in newsrooms with fewer resources serving increasingly polarized audiences. Through a triangulation of data—content analysis at the subdimension level to examine the range and hybridity of audience-orient…
News by Numbers: The evolution of analytics in journalism
Analytics are now embedded in newsroom practice. In a form of participative gatekeeping, the ability to track how the audience absorbs information is shaping editorial content. Although there is much discussion that engagement metrics, like time spent, are more important than pageviews, many advertisers are still more interested in clicks than counting time, some newsrooms still have pageview targets, and the pageviews metric is often used as a s…
Quantifying Quality: Negotiating Audience Participation and the Value of a Digital Story at NRK
The use of metrics and analytics at Norway's national broadcaster, NRK, allows the audience to participate in the news process, impacting story promotion, selection, and formatting. Cognizant of the inherent limitations of quantitative data, NRK created what employees describe as a qualitative analytics system, Janus. Janus was designed in an effort to better measure a digital story's journalistic value, but its use was sporadic. Conversely, anal…
Participative Gatekeeping: The Intersection of News, Audience Data, Newsworkers, and Economics
The use of metrics and analytics is becoming pervasive in newsrooms the world over. However, there is a lack of consistent terminology in scholarly literature with regards to such practice and a dearth of studies that compare practice on a wider scale that prevents more holistic understanding of how audience data are being used on the newsroom floor. These issues are addressed with the development of a new participative gatekeeping model with thr…
Algorithms, Platforms, and Policy: The Changing Face of Canadian News Distribution
Journalistic Role Performance in Times of Covid
This paper examines journalistic role performance in coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on a content analysis of newspaper, television, radio and online news in 37 countries. We test a set of hypotheses derived from two perspectives on the role of journalism in health crises. Mediatization theories assume that news media tend to sensationalize or to politicize health crises. A contrasting perspective holds that journalists shift toward more…
Does News Platform Matter? Comparing Online Journalistic Role Performance to Newspaper, Radio, and Television
The shifting role of journalism in a digital age has affected long-standing journalistic norms across media platforms. This has reinvigorated discussion on how work in online newsrooms compares to other platforms that differ in media affordances and forms. Still, more studies are needed on whether those differences translate into distinct practices, especially when examining cross-national studies. Based on the second wave of the Journalistic Rol…
Comparing Journalistic Role Performance Across Thematic Beats: A 37-Country Study
Studies suggest that, at the routine level, news beats function as unique “micro-cultures.” Exploring this “particularist” approach in news content, we compare how the interventionist, watchdog, loyal, service, infotainment, and civic roles materialize across 11 thematic news beats and analyze the moderating effect of platforms, ownership, and levels of political freedom on journalistic role performance in hard and soft news. Based on the second …
Catch, Engage, Retain: Audience-Oriented Journalistic Role Performance in Canada
To understand audience-oriented journalistic role performance, one must understand how journalists conceptualize and cater to their audience. Giving the audience what it wants is a complex endeavor, with varying goals and hybridized end results, in newsrooms with fewer resources serving increasingly polarized audiences. Through a triangulation of data—content analysis at the subdimension level to examine the range and hybridity of audience-orient…
The societal context of professional practice: Examining the impact of politics and economics on journalistic role performance across 37 countries
The impact of socio-political variables on journalism is an ongoing concern of comparative research on media systems and professional cultures. However, they have rarely been studied systematically across diverse cases, particularly outside Western democracies, and existing studies that compare western and non-western contexts have mainly focused on journalistic role conceptions rather than actual journalistic practice. Using journalistic role pe…
Is It Us or Them? The Challenge of Getting Journalists to Participate in Academic Research
For journalism research rooted in a sociological framework, gaining access to journalists is crucial for data collection. However, journalists are documentably difficult to recruit as participants, frequently due to limited time and resources in shrinking newsrooms, sometimes because of roadblocks put up by leery newsroom management. As part of the data collection process for the Canadian branch of the international Journalistic Role Performance …
The Conversation Canada and Journalistic Boundaries: A Case Study in the Challenges of Defining Journalism
Background: The Conversation Canada, a platform blending “journalistic flair” with “academic rigour,” often sees its articles republished by major news outlets. However, it does not meet government definitions of a journalistic organization, and only half of surveyed contributing academics consider their work journalism. Analysis: Using The Conversation Canada as a case study, this research explores the challenges of defining journalism, who cont…
“There’s a Rule Book in my Head”: Journalism Ethics Meet A.I. in the Newsroom
The burgeoning use of artificial intelligence (A.I.) to create journalistic products is challenging the ethical standards in Canadian newsrooms and calling into question the efficacy of existing norms and practice worldwide. Ethical literacy related to the use of A.I. remains low in the industry at large, and with no standardized ethical practice, there is little understanding of how journalistic doxa might need to expand to keep up with technolo…
Political science (12 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Journalism (7 works) · Social Media and Politics (7 works) · Advertising (6 works) · Media studies (5 works)