数字时代的新闻源:构成、趋势与意涵

News Sources in the Digital Age:Composition,Tends and Indication

研究采用内容分析方法,对央视新闻和《新京报》“两微端”报道的新闻源选择情况进行考察,并尝试据此阐释数字化进程对于中国主流新闻机构的生产实践的影响。研究发现。在中国的数字新闻业态下,媒体机构的新闻源选择受到机构属性、平台规则与报道类型的综合影响;传统意义上的权威新闻源出现分化;不同类型的公众话语作为新闻源在非时政报道中受到越来越高的重视;传统媒体时代新闻业内存在的某些基于文化与政治资本形成的权威层级在数字新闻生态下得以延续。研究进而描摹数字新闻业演进的两个基本趋势:一是平台规则正在取代机构文化成为塑造整个新闻业态的直接力量;二是数字新闻业在文化上将日益体现出非精英化的特征。

Using content analysis,this article examines the selection of news sources of the Weibo-and WeChat-based reporting of two media organizations,and attempts to explain the impact of the digitalization process on the production practices of mainstream Chinese news organizations. In China’s digital news ecosystem,the news source selection of media organizations is affected by the attributes of the organization,platform rules and reporting types;authoritative news sources in the traditional sense are differentiated;different types of public discourse are increasingly used as news sources in non-political news reporting;and certain authoritative hierarchies based on cultural and political capital existing in the news industry in the traditional media era have continued under the digital news ecosystem. The article further describes two basic trends in the evolution of digital journalism: platform rules are replacing institutional culture as the direct force shaping the entire news industry,and the culture of digital journalism will increasingly reflect a populist preference.