Media Crisis Management in Traditional and Digital Newsrooms Export

@article{citeulike:6049540, abstract = {By comparing two newsrooms' responses, one with a traditional mode of production and one with a digital, to the terror attacks of 9/11, this article demonstrates that newsrooms, in contrast to what previous research tells us, differ in their ability to cover crisis events. Drawing upon findings from previous research on how news organizations cope with extraordinary -- and crisis -- events, the study explains news desks' ability to cope with the disruptions of everyday deadlines caused by disaster marathon modes' of reporting, based on organizational everyday structures and previous experiences. The study concludes that a digital newsroom designed to handle 24 hour reporting does not necessarily nor automatically have a suitable structure to deal with a crisis event. Rather, in this particular case the structure used for 24/7 coverage, based on journalists' independence and decentralization, was directly counterproductive when dealing with a crisis event. 10.1177/1354856509342780}, author = {Olsson, Eva-Karin}, citeulike-article-id = {6049540}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342780}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://con.sagepub.com/content/15/4/446.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://con.sagepub.com/content/15/4/446.full.pdf}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/1354856509342780}, journal = {Convergence}, keywords = {digital\_newsroom, journalism, new-media}, month = {November}, number = {4}, pages = {446--461}, posted-at = {2009-10-31 17:48:26}, priority = {2}, title = {Media Crisis Management in Traditional and Digital Newsrooms}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342780}, volume = {15}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6049540 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6049540 N2 - By comparing two newsrooms' responses, one with a traditional mode of production and one with a digital, to the terror attacks of 9/11, this article demonstrates that newsrooms, in contrast to what previous research tells us, differ in their ability to cover crisis events. Drawing upon findings from previous research on how news organizations cope with extraordinary -- and crisis -- events, the study explains news desks' ability to cope with the disruptions of everyday deadlines caused by disaster marathon modes' of reporting, based on organizational everyday structures and previous experiences. The study concludes that a digital newsroom designed to handle 24 hour reporting does not necessarily nor automatically have a suitable structure to deal with a crisis event. Rather, in this particular case the structure used for 24/7 coverage, based on journalists' independence and decentralization, was directly counterproductive when dealing with a crisis event. 10.1177/1354856509342780 IS - 4 JF - Convergence EP - 461 TI - Media Crisis Management in Traditional and Digital Newsrooms VL - 15 SP - 446 KW - digital_newsroom KW - journalism KW - new-media AU - Olsson, Eva-Karin PY - 2009/11/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1354856509342780 ER -