Annelore Deprez

• Ghent University

Digital technology, the internet and mobile media are transforming the journalism and media landscape by influencing the news gathering and sourcing process. The empowering capacities of social media applications may constitute a key element for more balanced news access and “inclusive journalism”. We will build on two contrasting views that domina...

Samenvatting Deze studie onderzoekt in welke mate de Vlaamse nieuwssites hln.be en standaard.be hyperlinks, multimedia en interactiviteit verwerken in hun verslaggeving anno 2016. Uit een kwantitatieve en kwalitatieve inhoudsanalyse blijkt dat deze digitale journalistieke kenmerken op een eenzijdige manier aangewend worden. De meerwaarde die ze te...

Digital technology, the internet and mobile media are transforming the journalism and media landscape by influencing the sourcing process. We combined in-depth interviews and a content analysis of the 1424 Twitter “followings” of eight Belgian health journalists to clarify how they use the platform to monitor and use sources. The findings show that...

De berichtgeving over gezondheid en ziekte strookt maar gedeeltelijk met het reële belang ervan. Hierdoor kunnen sommige ziektebeelden meer bedreigend, en andere net minder bedreigend lijken dan ze in werkelijkheid zijn. De studie ging ook in op het brongebruik van Vlaamse gezondheidsjournalisten.

Deze studie focust op de jobtevredenheid van Vlaamse beroepsjournalisten. Aan de hand van een survey die in 2003 (N = 1026), 2008 (N = 682) en 2013 (N = 751) aan de journalisten is voorgelegd, brengen we de evoluties in jobtevredenheid in kaart. Daar‐ naast segmenteren we ook de totale populatie van journalisten naar gender, leeftijd, statuut en fu...

Journalistic sourcing practices in times of churnalism and Twitter: a survey of Flemish professional journalists (2008-2013) Journalistic sourcing practices in times of churnalism and Twitter: a survey of Flemish professional journalists (2008-2013) In order to assess the impact of cost-cutting, digitalization and globalization on journalistic sour...

Job satisfaction of journalists in the changing media landscape Job satisfaction of journalists in the changing media landscape This study focuses on the job satisfaction of Flemish professional journalists. On the basis of a comparative survey research conducted in 2003 (N = 1026), 2008 (N = 682) and 2013 (N = 751), we identified shifts in job sat...

In order to assess the impact of cost-cutting and digitalization on the expansion or contraction of the mediated public sphere, we developed a quantitative and longitudinal content analysis focused on sourcing practices for foreign news reporting in four Belgian newspapers (1995-2010). The results show little to no shift in the news access of diffe...

This paper examines journalists' changing sourcing practices in the context of an emerging media ecology initiated by processes of globalization, digitization, commercialism and concentration. Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube provide the means to access a more diverse range of sources, including civil society organization...

The combined interplay of commercialisation, digitalisation and globalisation offers opportunities for international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to gain more news access. We set up a quantitative content analysis to study how and to what extent press releases from the international NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were adopted in foreig...

Literature states that incorporating social media as a journalistic tool in news reporting generates opportunities for journalists to not only dialogue with the audience but also to publish, to seek information, and to profile themselves or their organizations. This study broadens the empirical data on the journalistic use of social media, more spe...

This article analyzes foreign news coverage and sourcing practices in contemporary newsrooms. It builds on theories concerned with the interplay between digital technologies and journalistic practice to explore the use of social media sources at professional journalistic outlets. The central research question deals with the diversity of sources in...

The combined interplay of commercialisation, digitalisation and globalisation offers opportunities for international non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to gain more news access. We set up a quantitative content analysis to study how and to what extent press releases from the international NGO Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) were adopted in foreig...

The focus of this article is on the job satisfaction among the population of professional Flemish journalists by means of two surveys conducted in 2003 (N=1026) and 2008 (N=682). Both surveys focus on intrinsic and extrinsic variables linked to job satisfaction as well as on several predictors of job satisfaction such as type of contract, job funct...

Concepts such as myth and archetype offer interesting opportunities for research on media content. Both concepts, however, have very diffuse definitions and operationalizations stemming from specific fields of application. As a result, the concepts of myth and archetype have proved difficult to translate into a transparent and replicable research d...

Various authors suggest that the public’s knowledge of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict is inadequate. As it is generally accepted that public opinion on international news items is mainly formed by media content, the international media are often held responsible for sustaining the prevailing misconceptions about the Israeli—Palestinian conflict b...

Framing the First and Second Intifada in the Flemish and Dutch press: a case study of De Morgen and NRC Handelsblad Framing the First and Second Intifada in the Flemish and Dutch press: a case study of De Morgen and NRC Handelsblad This article studies the coverage of both Intifadas in the Flemish newspaper De Morgen and the Dutch daily newspaper N...

Framing van de Eerste en Tweede Intifada in de Vlaamse en Nederlandse pers Een casestudy van De Morgen en het NRC Handelsblad Inleiding De mediaberichtgeving over het Israël-Palestinaconflict is op basis van kwantitatief en kwalitatief inhoudsanalytisch onderzoek meermaals bestudeerd in verschillende nationale contexten (identificeren in de eerste...

Frame analysis, based on the hybrid frame concept, has proved difficult to translate into a comparative, replicable and longitudinal research design. This article seeks to place the study of media frames in a wider theoretical framework with special interest for the various methods of empirical research. The article focuses on a further operational...

/ Various authors on the media coverage of the Israeli—Palestinian conflict assert that it is biased and unbalanced. This study focuses on the representation of the First and Second Intifada in Flemish daily newspapers. It combines a content analysis with in-depth interviews with journalists to investigate any imbalance and bias in favour of the Is...

Literature shows that media coverage of international conflicts is unbalanced and biased. Within the framework of media having an important impact on public perception it is important to research media portrayals of conflicts. Therefore we opted to study the coverage of the First and Second Intifada in the Dutch speaking written press on the basis...

For some time European newspaper markets have been confronted with decreasing circulation and readership figures. Research focused on patterns of consumption reveals that young people in particular spend less time reading newspapers. Since 2003, the government in Flanders has supported the Newspapers in Education programme in search of more qualita...

This article sketches a picture of the journalists involved in European Union (EU) reporting. Firstly, it presents an overview of the entire body of EU-accredited journalists, examining how they are distributed across the various nationalities, the different forms of media and whether an historical evolution can be traced in either distribution. Se...