Routine Influences on Aquaculture News Selection

A Q Method Study With New England Journalists

Bibliographic Data

ID12431365
AuthorsKevin Duffy (0000-0002-6352-0316, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA, corresponding author), Laura N Rickard (0000-0002-5668-7580, University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA), Paul Grosswiler (University of Maine, Orono, ME, USA)
Year2019
Volume41
Issue5
Pages602-632
Publication date2019-07-17
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueScience Communication (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1075-5470 • E-ISSN: 1552-8545
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1075547019862554
OpenAlexW2961349380
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited49

Environmental journalists, as gatekeepers, often become arbiters of risk and benefit information. This study explores how their routine news value judgments may influence reporting on marine aquaculture, a growing domestic industry with complex social and ecological impacts. We interviewed New England newspaper journalists using Q methodology, a qualitative dominant mixed-method approach to study shared subjectivity in small samples. Results revealed four distinct reporting perspectives—“state structuralist,” “neighborhood preservationist,” “industrial futurist,” and “local proceduralist”—stemming from the news value and objectivity routines journalists used in news selection. Findings suggest implications for public understanding of, and positionality toward, natural resource use and development

Epistemology · Futurist · Media studies · News media · News values · Newspaper · Objectivity (philosophy · Political science · Public relations · Resource (disambiguation · Selection (genetic algorithm · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Value (mathematics · Climate Change Communication and Perception · Computer Science · Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies · Q Methodology Applications

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