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Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism : A Study in Quantitative Reporting by Alessandro Martinisi and Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando (2020, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherAnthem Press
ISBN-10178527533X
ISBN-139781785275333
eBay Product ID (ePID)20050400053
Product Key Features
Number of Pages206 Pages
Publication NameStatistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism : a Study in Quantitative Reporting
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2020
SubjectMedia Studies, Statistics
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science
AuthorAlessandro Martinisi, Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight16 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2020-946150
Dewey Edition23
ReviewsMartinisi and Lugo-Ocando's detailed empirical study of data-driven crime and health news coverage in mainstream British papers confirms that "Big Data" is no panacea for achieving "Quality Journalism". As their book's wide-ranging literature review shows, this neoliberal fallacy about methods of math enlightenment in the "Infosphere" reaches back to Condorcet's "Social Mathematics" as a hallmark of the liberal faith during the French Revolution. -- Michael Hofmann, Professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies, Florida Atlantic University, US., In Statistics and the Quest for Quality Journalism: A Study in Quantitative Reporting, communication and journalism scholars Alessandro Martinisi and Jairo Lugo-Ocando offer comprehensive explanations on how journalists use statistics in their news stories and how this practice relates to news quality. Casting doubt on what "quality of news" means and whether the emphasis on numbers improves news quality and revolutionizes journalism, the authors conduct a content analysis, semistructured interviews with journalists, and a focus group with news audiences in the UK. -- Gyo Hyun Koo, University of Texas at Austin, The International Journal of Communication (15) 2021
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal070.4015195
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Numbers as information in the Information Society; Chapter 3: The never-ending debate on quality in journalism; Chapter 4: Statistics in journalism practice and principle; Chapter 5: The normative importance of 'quality' in Journalism; Chapter 6: Journalism meets statistics in real life; Chapter 7: The ideology of Statistics in the News; Epilogue; References; Index.
SynopsisThis book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality. This is a task, in our view, that is urgent in times of 'post-truth' politics and the rise of 'fake news'. In this sense, the quest to produce 'quality' news, which seems to require incorporating statistics and engaging with data, as laudable and straightforward as it sounds, is instead far more problematic and complex than what is often accounted for., This book looks at how numbers and statistics have been used to underpin quality in news reporting. In doing so, the aim is to challenge some common assumptions about how journalists engage and use statistics in their quest for quality news. It seeks to improve our understanding about the usage of data and statistics as a primary means for the construction of social reality.
LC Classification NumberPN4775.M3825 2020
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