Bouvier, Gwen
(2019)
How Journalists Source Trending Social Media
Feeds.
Journalism Studies, 20 (2).
pp. 212-231.
ISSN 1461-670X
Abstract
Media scholars have called for more research to understand the consequences of news outlets
becoming increasingly reliant on social media for sourcing stories, and how this is changing the
nature of news and the role of the journalist. This also has high relevance for the Critical Discourse
Analyst as regards processes of attributing the nature of ideology, where there is a shift away from
stories derived from elite sources and official organizations. Using a sample of 26 news stories and a
corpus of 40,000 tweets from a feed called #twowomentravel, which dealt with the journey of two
women travelling from Ireland to the United Kingdom for an abortion, this paper uses Multimodal
Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how the discourses from the feed are taken up by the journalists.
Findings show an erosion of some of the basic former aspects of journalistic practice related
to verification and provision of context as what is “trending” becomes a news definer. Yet those with
the skills to understand how it is integrated into news production may use this to disseminate their
own ideology.
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