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TY - JOUR
T1 - “Going offline”
T2 - Social media, source verification, and Chinese investigative journalism during “information overload"
AU - Xu, Nairui
AU - Gutsche Jr, Robert
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journalism Practice on 11/06/2020, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512786.2020.1776142
PY - 2021/9/30
Y1 - 2021/9/30
N2 - Based on interviews with 25 investigative journalists in Beijing, China, this study suggests digital journalists may be increasingly challenged by a sense of “information overload” as they navigate social media and online environments crowded with dis- and mis-information, fake profiles and sources, and massive amounts of opinion journalism that is presented as professional journalism. This overload has reinforced Chinese investigative journalists’ dedication to a conventional form of verification: meeting face-to-face with sources. This study contributes to scholarship on Chinese journalism by expanding knowledge about investigative journalists in the country and by complicating understandings of how journalists there work in an age of social media, disinformation, and increased interests in verification.
AB - Based on interviews with 25 investigative journalists in Beijing, China, this study suggests digital journalists may be increasingly challenged by a sense of “information overload” as they navigate social media and online environments crowded with dis- and mis-information, fake profiles and sources, and massive amounts of opinion journalism that is presented as professional journalism. This overload has reinforced Chinese investigative journalists’ dedication to a conventional form of verification: meeting face-to-face with sources. This study contributes to scholarship on Chinese journalism by expanding knowledge about investigative journalists in the country and by complicating understandings of how journalists there work in an age of social media, disinformation, and increased interests in verification.
KW - China
KW - disinformation
KW - "information overload”
KW - investigative journalism
KW - social media
KW - sources
KW - verification
U2 - 10.1080/17512786.2020.1776142
DO - 10.1080/17512786.2020.1776142
M3 - Journal article
VL - 15
SP - 1146
EP - 1162
JO - Journalism Practice
JF - Journalism Practice
SN - 1751-2786
IS - 8
ER -