Journalistic Views on Hard and Soft News

Cross-Validating a Popular Concept in a Factorial Survey

Bibliographic Data

ID7501480
AuthorsIsabella Glogger (0000-0002-3371-0485, University of Koblenz–Landau, Germany, corresponding author), Lukas Otto (0000-0002-4374-6924, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Lukas P Otto (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Year2019
Volume96
Issue3
Pages811-829
Publication date2019-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-6990 • E-ISSN: 2161-430X
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077699018815890
OpenAlexW2906761557
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited40

Despite the popularity of the concept of hard and soft news, researchers regularly criticize the vague definitions and inconsistent conceptualizations. Following claims for standardization of concept in journalism research, this article aims to cross-validate the most recent understanding of the concept. We conducted a factorial survey with newspaper journalists to probe the question as to which of the theoretically assumed dimensions of the concept are referred to by journalists to distinguish hard from soft news. We find the dimensions “topic,” “relevance,” “framing,” and “opinion” to exert influence on journalists’ understanding of the concept

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