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A Comparative Study on News Service Models through Internet Portals: Softening News and Setting Agenda

  • Informatization Policy
  • Abbr : 정보화정책
  • 2012, 19(3), pp.19~35
  • Publisher : NIA
  • Research Area : Social Science > Public Policy

WHASUN JHO 1 Chang Woo-Young 2 오소현 1

1연세대학교
2대구가톨릭대학교

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ABSTRACT

As Internet users increasingly consume news through the Internet, Internet portals face criticism that they are quickening the softening of public news and molding public opinions. Some portals have started to provide newscast services that directly connect the press, not grouping news sources on their own standards. This study aims to clarify how news grouping models and newscast models are different in terms of news softening and agenda setting. Specifically, authors conduct a content analysis on time-specific news content provided by top three portals-Naver, Daum, and Nate. By doing so, this study examines characteristics of news service models of Internet portals and their social and political implications. According to our study, the softening and tabloidization of portal news had not been improved even after adopting the newscast model. Therefore, portal journalism should be reorganized as a way to circulate healthy and qualified news content.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.