Bridging the gap : journalists’ role orientation and role performance on Twitter

• Main Authors: Tandoc, Edson C., Jr., Cabañes, Jason Vincent A., Cayabyab, Ysa Marie
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Communication; Content Analysis; Journalistic Role
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/139809
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Combining a content analysis of 760 tweets and a survey of journalists who tweeted them, this study revisits the questioned assumption that journalists’ conception of their roles manifests in their journalistic outputs. Studies that have tested this assumption instead found a gap between role orient...