Harcup and ONeill (2017) also have noted that the rise of social media has made shareability a news value, as in news likely to provoke a response on Facebook or Twitter. Treating citywide figures as an index of 100, we add or subtract outlet-level audience data to create income, education, and age indices. 2006). They have power. The Afghan debacle lasted two decades. Next, we outline our methodological approach to assessing multiple dimensions of Philadelphias media system: Audience socioeconomics; audience size; news staffing levels; media ownership structures; and news platforms (more recent digital-only entrants in the media system vs. older, legacy outlets that generally combine platforms such as print, broadcast, and digital). More sports media news on a Friday afternoon. (, Ferree M. M., Gamson W. A., Gerhards J., Rucht D. (, Friedland L, Napoli P, Ognyanova K., Weil C. (, Napoli P. M, Stonbely S, McCollough K., Renninger B. As digital forms of news distribution emerged in the 2000s, a new wave of research found gaps in public affairs reporting, but also traced networks of emergent digital-only news outlets that potentially could fill some of these gaps (Anderson, 2013; Schaffer, 2010). We reached out to Sarah Stonbely at Montclair State Universitys Center for Cooperative Media, who is leading an extensive mapping and content analysis of New Jerseys media system, which has some overlap with Philadelphia. First, we determine the geographic coverage area of an outlet, as identified by the outlet in their published materials or emails to us, or as determined by print subscription availability. This byline is mine, but I want my name removed. Anyone can read what you share. Acknowledging this power and being transparent about those choices is exactly what the Inquirer did the other day when it embedded within a news story a bit of explanatory text, under the headline: Why Were Not Calling It an Audit., In clear language, the paper explained that its because theres no indication that this effort, which follows months of demands from Donald Trump alleging baselessly that the election was rigged, would follow the best practices or the common understanding of an audit among nonpartisan experts.. He divorced his estranged wife in 1979 and on July 14, 1980, Mr. Cianfrani, 57, and Ms. Foreman, 37, were married in Falls Church, Va., where she lived. according to an affidavit obtained by the Philadelphia Inquirer. Additionally, Harcup and ONeill (2001) identify the magnitude of an event as a key news value, as with a pandemic that affects very many people in many ways. These outlets are Catholic Philly; Delaware County Daily Times; Main Line Times; Northeast Times; Passyunk Post; Philadelphia Weekly; Willow Grove Guide; Roxborough Review; South Philly Review; University City Review and Philly Free Press; West Philly Local. Institutional transformation is always hard and rarely fast. Examples of COVID-19 coverage in our analysis include stories with headlines such as COVID cases increasing, vaccine lowers severity (Chestnut Hill Local); Chester County distributing $5.9M in state pandemic relief to local hospitality businesses (Philadelphia Business Journal); Philly area restaurants requiring vaccination: a running list (Billy Penn). Primarily based on (a) data indicating prominence in terms of circulation, viewership, or web traffic, or (b) frequent mention in published articles as important outlets for news in Philadelphia, our final selection includes 38 outlets in the greater Philadelphia area,2 representing a mix of ownership types serving mass audiences and niche audiences. Newsrooms attempting similar work would do well to consider a few lessons from the Inquirers experiences: A common critique of many DEI initiatives is that they tend to get stuck at the level of a project and fall short of institutional transformation. These elected officials, WITF reminded its audience, either knowingly spread disinformation or flat-out lied in an effort to keep Trump in office. Theres a simple but powerful idea behind the Philadelphia Inquirers recent decision not to use the word audit when referring to an effort by the state GOP to investigate the 2020 election: The words that a news organization chooses to tell a story make a difference. Our analysis of news content, reported in Table3, shows that nearly all outlets give more attention to the COVID-19 pandemic than to breaking news of individual crimes (RQ3). Robert L. Mooney/The Philadelphia Inquirer By Katharine Q. Seelye Published July 23, 2021 Updated July 26, 2021 Laura Foreman, a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer in the 1970s, was. We then developed open and closed search strings to calculate precision and recall rates. Support responsible news and fact-based information today! The Inquirer also has committed to establishing a community advisory council to offer perspectives on coverage, but also on the companys overall diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and marketing. By contrast, the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted virtually all aspects of daily life, is a critical concern for all communities and is relevant to all eight of Friedland et al.s critical information needs. Findings indicate that multiple dimensions of Philadelphias news media systemaudience size and socioeconomics, staffing levels, forms of ownership, and platform effectswork together to underserve communities with lower levels of income and education and that this structural gap generates a measurable gap in the provision of news content meeting the critical information needs of these communities. Though it may lack the pandemics magnitude, crime news is popular with audiences (Delli Carpini et al., 2018). These findings are limited to database search results and to a subset of outlets in our study, most of them with education, income, and age indices above 100. Their news values constitute a large corpus of research, which often notes that news outlets often favor stories that shock, surprise, or entertain, rather than meet critical needs for information (Galtung & Ruge, 1965; Harcup & ONeill, 2001, 2017). Assessing differences in formats, we find that digital-only outlets, several of which are newer entrants in the citys media system (e.g., Billy Penn, Passyunk Post, and West Philly Local), do not appear to be significantly altering the systems socioeconomic dynamics (RQ2). Albk E., van Dalen A., Jebril N., de Vreese C. H. (, Althaus S. L., Cizmar A. M., Gimpel J. G. (, Ardia D, Ringel E, Ekstrand V. S., Fox A. The Times, in fact, said initially that her work had comported with the highest ethical standards. So these journalists refuse to call GOP election meddling an audit., Exonerated man, freed after 28 years, reunites with pen pal who wrote him weekly, I wanted to face my deepest fear, so I suited up and flew to the Arctic. If printing those words in 72-point type had occurred in a vacuum, it would have been a grievous and unpardonable offense, writesElizabeth H. Major television affiliates for ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox also wield significant journalistic resources, but data on the composition of their audiences are unavailable. MEDIA ACTION GUIDE Updated January 2019 TV STATIONS CBS 3 - Eyewitness News 1555 Hamilton Street Philadelphia, PA 19130 John Wilson, News Director Email - wilson@kyw.com Phone (215) 977-5333 Website www.cbsphilly.com Email - newsdesk@cbs3.com 6ABC WPVI-TV 4100 City Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19131 Tom Davis, News Director Phone (215) 878-9700 #21 False claims about election fraud remain a problem, spreading in various places online, voting and media experts said. It typically takes a new host a couple of dozen shows, at least, to settle in, but Psaki seems to be more than comfortable after only six. Trained staff and managers on how These gaps seem particularly pronounced when commercial outlets attempt to draw audiences with crime coverage that focuses on individual incidents rather than on the broader social and economic factors that fuel crime. Moreover, those that rely on paywalls bar access for those who are unable or unwilling to pay (Knobel, 2018; Pickard, 2020). Ms. Foreman also moved her ailing father from Memphis into a nursing home nearby. "Commenting on Inquirer.com was. Managers also shared that they were building community-engagement goals into the performance reviews of editors of several teams to encourage each to brainstorm and implement engagement ideas for their desks. The Inquirer created an Anti-Racist Workflow Guide that offers a series of questions (e.g. Stock market-traded ownership, a commercial form of ownership prevalent among major TV affiliates, also is associated with far lower than average ratios of COVID-19 to crime coverage and, at times, levels of crime coverage that are greater than COVID-19 coverage (WTXF/Fox 29, ratio of 3.2). The new code required staff members to report potential conflicts to their managers and to take action to remove any conflict, by changing beats, for example. With the collapse of the advertising business model, the Inquirer, like numerous other U.S. newspapers, is trying to do more with less. Gaps in news provision can manifest as absent or inadequate news about issues vital to a communitys interests, which Friedland et al. Higher levels of attention to COVID-19 coverage are positively correlated with income, education, and age indices, with bivariate correlations of 0.545 (p=.07), 0.21 (p=.54), and 0.854 (p=.003), respectively for these indices and COVID-to-crime coverage ratios.5 Correlations for income and age are considered moderate to strong, and the correlation with education is weak.6. In addition, some expressed a sense of tension between aims of cultivating new readers from BIPOC and other historically marginalized communities, and of appealing to an existing audience of white suburban subscribers. Now you can read The Philadelphia Inquirer Digital Edition anytime, anywhere. writes. Median or average weighted median HHI used for most outlets, with exceptions of average HHI for Chestnut Hill Local; Jewish Exponent; Philadelphia Business Journal; Philadelphia Daily News; Philadelphia Inquirer; Philadelphia Magazine. The Philadelphia Inquirer is a daily newspaper serving the Philadelphia metropolitan area of the United States. . For example, based on 2019 Census calculations for its coverage area, Delaware County Daily Times audience has a (weighted average) median household income (HHI) of $78,106. Check to receive email when comments are posted. The Inquirers community news desk will include a team of reporters and editors focused on underserved communities and direct community engagement initiatives. The decision to keep the desk separate from the news desk evoked fears among some that it could silo off engagement work, though managers explained that they wanted the desk to be interdisciplinary to allow it to cross-fertilize multiple desks with best practices regarding community engagement. Interpretations of correlation strength vary; our interpretations are based on Akoglu (2018). For example, Chadwicks concept of the hybrid media system emphasizes the flow of news across platforms, such as print, broadcast, and the Internet, and different media production logics. It gave The Inquirer a black eye. "Any talk of you resigning should be put out of your mind," said one Wildwood, N.J. resident. Hughes, publisher-CEO of thePhiladelphia Inquirer. Additionally, we assess the degree to which COVID items in our subsamples are either locally produced or locally focused and find that such items comprise the majority of items for most outlets, with the exception of WCAU/NBC10 (12% of COVID items being locally focused or produced); Philadelphia Tribune (22%); WPVI/ABC6 (31%); Metro (48%). Despite what might appear to be a robust and thriving media system, Philadelphias patterns of news provision indicate informational inequalities along socioeconomic lines. These include steps that are being tried by newsrooms around the U.S.: establishing a system to track the diversity of sources, launching a prepublication Content Consult Slack channel (which drew inspiration from a similar effort at The Seattle Times), and auditing their stylebook to encourage antiracism. Amy S. Rosenberg Abernathy (2020) defines a news desert as a community, either rural or urban, where residents have very limited access to the sort of credible and comprehensive news and information that feed democracy at the grassroots level (p. 18). I hired her as a writer/editor at Time-Life Books because her abilities were unmistakable, George Constable, the managing editor at the time, said in an email. Correction: The Inquirer launched a community advisory council, not a community advisory board. The Philadelphia Inquirer Is Working to Transform Its Newsroom. Encouraging diverse forms of ownershipespecially public and nonprofit media institutionshas the potential to shield news organizations from the economic incentives to bait their audiences with sensationalistic coverage of crime and other topics. Our study, which builds and applies a multi-dimensional framework for analyzing local media systems, shows that news gaps can arise when some news outlets produce substantial coverage for some audiences while neglecting others and when they provide overall inadequate coverage of vitally important issues related to public health and other critical information needs. a Community News Desk to address shortcomings in how the paper portrays Philadelphia communities, which have often been stigmatized by coverage that over-emphasizes crime, Hughes While managers affirmed that taking the time needed to follow antiracist practices was a priority, resource pressures were ever-present. And so it played out here. RQ4: How do different forms of media ownership affect the provision of news coverage that meets communities critical information needs? Laura went to Emory University in Atlanta, where she studied English literature and was a member of the Delta Delta Delta sorority. For outlets with a focus on Hispanic or Black communities, we use 2018 income and education data for Hispanic and Black/African-American majority Census Tracts, as reported by the Economy League of Greater Philadelphia (Shields & Siddique, 2020). If a journalist calls something a lie, thats a deliberate choice. Her focus was Philadelphias 1975 mayoral race, in which the brash and cocky incumbent, Frank L. Rizzo, the citys former police commissioner, was seeking a second term. promises of reform and redress were made.. many big-city dailies, theInquirerhas overemphasized crime and been racially insensitive in its coverage, Hughes said. ThePhiladelphia This article was also updated to note that the masthead has seen considerable change. This was an unprecedented assault on the fabric of American democracy, the statement said. For analyses of New Jersey media systems, see the Center for Cooperative Medias Mapping Local News Ecosystems project: https://newsecosystems.org. For crime stories, our search strings are designed to exclude references to police killings that have sparked Black Lives Matter protests, as these raise community-wide concerns for pervasive, systemic racial bias, and to exclude references to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, which occurred beyond the Philadelphia area. But her promising start at The Times exploded eight months later. The Inquirer reported progress on meeting goals they set for hiring: Since the start of the year, 61% of all new newsroom positions were filled by individuals from BIPOC communities and 44% identified as women. We begin by reviewing the literature on news gaps, identifying both their structural drivers and social consequences. It presented no evidence that masks caused serious health problems. (, Napoli P. M., Stonbely S., McCollough K., Renninger B. Our final, closed search string for crime stories achieved 91% precision and 87% recall. In answer to RQ2 concerning news provision by digital-only outlets, these more recent entrants to the Philadelphia media system appear to largely mirror the longstanding socioeconomic divides of traditional news media, as they reach audiences that, in the aggregate, have income, education, and age indices that exceed Philadelphia medians and averages. This byline is for a different person with the same name. Unlike our assessment of average income, education, and age indices, ratio averages include major commercial TV affiliates, which generally have large audiences but low COVID-to-crime coverage ratios and thus have a systemwide suppression effect on average ratios. This analysis also demonstrates that public media offer proportionally more critical needs coverage, while commercial news outlets, particularly those owned by private equity/hedge fund investors and stock market-traded companies, compound these patterns. Both search strings exclude sports-related items; the crime search string excludes stories related to Black Lives Matter and related protests over incidents of police killings, as well as stories related to the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. One of Mr. Rizzos close allies was Mr. Cianfrani, a longtime ward boss who became chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and one of Pennsylvanias most influential lawmakers. By: Andrea Wenzel August 27, 2021 It's been more than a year since The Philadelphia Inquirer launched its "Inquirer for All" project with the ambitious aim of transforming a newsroom that. It said she had been romantically involved with him and that she had accepted his expensive gifts while she was covering politics. the newsroom staff, met weekly in working groups in an effort to make the Inquirer an anti-racist news organization, Hughes adds. I dont believe I have done anything wrong, Ms. Foreman told The Inquirer in a statement. We then use Census ZIP Code Tabulation Area (ZCTA) data for median household income, education (percentage of people with bachelors degrees), and median age for these areas, weighting calculations by population per ZCTA. Longtime Philadelphia Inquirer Sports Managing Editor Pat McLoone is leaving the newspaper, confirmed here by Eagles writer Paul Domowitch:. One other effort may offer even more fundamental potential for transforming the day-to-day work of journalism. murder of George Floyd at the hands of the police a year ago yesterday amplified the outrage and brought us well-deserved scorn and scrutiny, Hughes continues. A streetwise power broker, he was a natural source and occasional subject for the new political writer. She is survived by Mr. Cianfranis daughters and grandchildren. Beloved husband of. Staff expressed concerns about retention of BIPOC staff (just under half of those who left in the six months following the audit identified as BIPOC journalists). Matter, Too.. She and Mr. Cianfrani later went their separate ways, but were still married when he died in 2002 at 79. Inquirer.com: Philadelphia local news, sports, jobs, cars, homes In Wildwood, the mayor and a commissioner won't resign despite indictments. (2012) identify eight categories of such critical information needs: Emergencies and public safety; health; education; transportation; environment and planning; economic development; civic life; political life. News Voices; Media 2070; Save The Internet; Voices for Internet Freedom . The patterns that emerge from our data paint a multi-dimensional portrait of Philadelphias media system that strongly suggests that differences in audience size and staffing levels, ownership structures (commercial vs. noncommercial), and format (print vs. television vs. digital-only) together work to underserve socioeconomically marginalized populations. However, based on the Inquirers reported data for advertisers (Philadelphia Inquirer, 2018), income and education indices are higher for Inquirer audiences than for Daily News audiences. WTXF/Fox29 is one of two outlets in our study that give more attention to crime than to the pandemic (3.2). Our study focuses on the structural drivers of systemic news gaps, rather than news flows. Both areas of news coverage were highly newsworthy during the time period analyzed: As of early 2022, the pandemic had sickened more than 277,000 people and killed more than 4,000 in Philadelphia County (New York Times, 2022); in 2021, the city of Philadelphia saw a record 557 homicides (Palmer & Orso, 2021). We use this time period because several major Philadelphia outlets are archived in Factiva on a rolling, approximately 90-day window. Six months ago, our team from Temple Universitys Klein College of Media and Communication released a diversity and inclusion audit of the Inquirer which shared a series of recommendations around sourcing, editing, community engagement and workplace culture. But will state law require it? Rumors began circulating that the two were involved romantically, but Ms. Foreman denied them, and the editors discounted them. To answer our research questions about critical information news provision for socioeconomically and demographically differentiated communities (RQ3 and RQ4), we conduct a content analysis to assess each outlets volume of COVID-19 pandemic coverage and compare this to the volume of coverage of individual crimes. The conversations focused on crime and justice coverage with the hopes of informing the Inquirers newsroom guidelines and building relationships with impacted communities.
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