Evaluating Journalism

Towards an assessment framework for the practice of journalism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12908987
AutoresIvor Shapiro (0000-0002-0100-2804, Toronto Metropolitan University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen4
Número2
Páginas143-162
Fecha de publicación2009-10-29
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512780903306571
OpenAlexW2334960240
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas26
Referencias citadas31

The need to distinguish clearly the disciplines involved in quality reporting from the now universal capacity for conveying facts and opinions has never been more widely acknowledged. To date, attempts to classify the attributes of journalistic practice have encompassed professional traits or values, journalists' criteria of quality or excellence, and the elements or principles underlying journalism. This paper considers the utility of those streams of work for evaluating the practice of journalism and builds on the classical study of rhetoric in order to propose a new assessment framework. The proposed framework is organized within five “faculties” (discovery, examination, interpretation, style and presentation). Specific evaluative topics are associated with each of the faculties, plus potential standards (quality journalism is independent, accurate, open to appraisal, edited and uncensored) and criteria of excellence (the best journalism is ambitious, undaunted, contextual, engaging and original)

Credibility · Epistemology · Excellence · Interpretation (philosophy · Journalism · Linguistics · Media studies · Political science · Presentation (obstetrics · Public relations · Quality (philosophy · Rhetoric · Sociology · Technical Journalism · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Law · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Rhetoric and Communication Studies