The Recycling of News in Swedish Newspapers : Reused quotations and reports in articles about the crisis in the Swedish Academy in 2018
(2020) In Nordicom Review 41(1). p.69-84- Abstract
- Newspapers in Sweden are experiencing reduced revenues due to decreases in advertisement sales and reader subscriptions. Given such circumstances, one way of being more cost-effective is for journalists to recycle pieces of texts already published by others. In this article, I investigate to what extent and how the four biggest newspapers in Sweden do this. Following a close reading of 120 articles about the crisis in the Swedish Academy in 2018, I found that the newspapers included recycled quotations attributed to other media to a great extent. Moreover, recycled statements from other media were often intermingled with quotes from new interviews; however, social media were not used as sources very often. A discussion of the problematic... (More)
- Newspapers in Sweden are experiencing reduced revenues due to decreases in advertisement sales and reader subscriptions. Given such circumstances, one way of being more cost-effective is for journalists to recycle pieces of texts already published by others. In this article, I investigate to what extent and how the four biggest newspapers in Sweden do this. Following a close reading of 120 articles about the crisis in the Swedish Academy in 2018, I found that the newspapers included recycled quotations attributed to other media to a great extent. Moreover, recycled statements from other media were often intermingled with quotes from new interviews; however, social media were not used as sources very often. A discussion of the problematic aspects of “a culture of self-referentiality” concludes the article. (Less)
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- Skärlund, Sanna LU
- publishing date
- 2020
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- journalism, recycling of news, churnalism, Swedish newspapers, social media
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- Nordicom Review
- volume
- 41
- issue
- 1
- pages
- 69 - 84
- publisher
- The Nordic Information Centre for Media and Communication Research
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- scopus:85082315561
- ISSN
- 1403-1108
- DOI
- 10.2478/nor-2020-0005
- language
- English
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- f484827a-3739-4968-87f6-48bdbf5f9b48
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