TY - JOUR
T1 - “What the Heck Is Going on in the Group!”
T2 - Challenging Journalistic Authority by Pseudo-Professional WhatsApp News Groups
AU - Ilan, Jonathan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This paper addresses the ways new entrants and mobile technologies have become significant challenges to the old news’ legitimacy models by focusing on pseudo-professional WhatsApp news groups from a journalistic authority standpoint. Based on a comparative textual analysis of how a breaking news event was handled by a leading Israeli pseudo-professional WhatsApp news group, compared to how it was covered by the Israeli News13 TV news broadcast, the findings indicate how, by adopting professional news practices and establishing unique relations of information exchange with traditional news outlets, journalistic authority is challenged by pseudo-professional WhatsApp news groups in today’s mobile news environment.
AB - This paper addresses the ways new entrants and mobile technologies have become significant challenges to the old news’ legitimacy models by focusing on pseudo-professional WhatsApp news groups from a journalistic authority standpoint. Based on a comparative textual analysis of how a breaking news event was handled by a leading Israeli pseudo-professional WhatsApp news group, compared to how it was covered by the Israeli News13 TV news broadcast, the findings indicate how, by adopting professional news practices and establishing unique relations of information exchange with traditional news outlets, journalistic authority is challenged by pseudo-professional WhatsApp news groups in today’s mobile news environment.
KW - WhatsApp groups
KW - journalism boundaries
KW - journalistic authority
KW - mobile news
KW - news production
KW - participatory journalism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85198840469&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17512786.2024.2379885
DO - 10.1080/17512786.2024.2379885
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AN - SCOPUS:85198840469
SN - 1751-2786
JO - Journalism Practice
JF - Journalism Practice
ER -