Abstract
The most comprehensive study of the influence of social media on Greek news journalism in English is the Digital News Report provided by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. Since 2012, the report offers an annual, extensive, multidimensional, and cross-national trends analysis of how audiences experience digital news journalism by recording audiences’ news preferences in terms of platforms and websites. The net effect of these reports is that they allow us to get a glimpse of the annual state of the Greek media market and over time and the changes and stresses it faces. To this end, the findings of these reports cover a wide range of topics, by placing their emphasis upon audiences. Adding to this picture, this chapter presents a case study of Greek news journalists’ use of Twitter as part of their journalistic practices and its impact on their role as news journalists, by examining the use of the platform in legacy news organisations and net-native news organisations, and journalists. Ultimately, the aim of the case study is to provide an extra layer to the Oxford account of the impact of social media on news journalism.
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It should be noted that this process was conducted manually, as there is a significant lack of data in relation to the use of Twitter by news media and journalists in Greece.
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Dagoula, C. (2022). The Influence of Social Media on Greek News Journalism: A Case Study of the Use of Twitter by Greek News Journalists. In: Iordanidou, S., Jebril, N., Takas, E. (eds) Journalism and Digital Content in Emerging Media Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04552-3_4
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