News Media Innovation Reconsidered

Edited by María Luengo

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain

Susana Herrera-Damas

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain

This edition first published 2021

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Names: Cruz, María Luengo, 1972- author. | Herrera-Damas, Dácil Susana, 1976- author.

Title: News media innovation reconsidered : ethics and values in a creative reconstruction of journalism / edited by María Luengo Cruz, Dácil Susana Herrera-Damas.

Description: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, 2021. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2020047561 (print) | LCCN 2020047562 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119706496 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119706472 (pdf) | ISBN 9781119706502 (epub) | ISBN 9781119706519 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Journalism--Technological innovations. | Journalism--Social aspects. | Journalistic ethics.

Classification: LCC PN4784.T34 N495 2021 (print) | LCC PN4784.T34 (ebook) | DDC 070.4/3--dc23

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2 Title page News Media Innovation Reconsidered Ethics and Values in a Creative Reconstruction of Journalism Edited by María Luengo Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain Susana Herrera-Damas Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Madrid, Spain

3 Copyright

4 Introduction: Journalism’s Creative Reconstruction: How Innovation in News Is Embracing Enduring Professional and Civil Values

5 Journalism, Ethics, and Innovation in Times of Digital Turbulence Chapter 1: An Inquiry into the Ethics of Innovation in Digital Journalism Chapter 2: Democratically Engaged Journalists: Ethical Invention amid Unreasonable Publics Chapter 3: Journalism Innovation in a Time of Survival

6 News Ethics and Emerging Journalistic Narratives Chapter 4: Ethics in 360-Degree Immersive Journalism Chapter 5: Quo Vadis, Newsgames? Ethical Boundaries Between Journalism and Games Chapter 6: Guiding the Adoption of News Storytelling Design Through Ethics: The Use of Stories in Google’s AMP Project

7 Interrogating Data, Algorithms, and Automatization Through Journalism Ethics Chapter 7: Data Journalism, Massive Leaks, and Investigation: What the Panama Papers Have Taught Us About Ethics Chapter 8: Semi-automated Journalism: Reinforcing Ethics to Make the Most of Artificial Intelligence for Writing News Chapter 9: Ethical Challenges in Incorporating Artificial Intelligence into Newsrooms

8 Journalistic Innovation at the Service of the Public Chapter 10: Journalism, Algorithms, and the People’s Right to Know Chapter 11: Ethical Dilemmas in the Personalization of News from Voice Interfaces Chapter 12: Transparency, Innovation, and Journalism Chapter 13: Innovative Tools for Citizen Empowerment in the Fight Against Misinformation

9 Conclusion

10 Index

11 End User License Agreement

1 Chapter 1 Table 1.1 Ethical issues for news professionals who work in digital newsrooms.

2 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Construction of veracity in newsgames.Table 5.2 Informative impartiality in newsgames.Table 5.3 Roles assigned to the user in newsgames about fake news.

1 IntroductionFigure I.1 The “Crisis in news narrative:” print/legacy media as...Figure I.2 The re-signification of professional journalism through new digit...

2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 A Continuum of Engagement.

3 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 How Google AMP works. Source: Vineetgupta.net (2017).Figure 6.2 Information published in La Vanguardia in a stamp story for...Figure 6.3 Information published in The Washington Post in a stamp sto...

4 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Dataminr pre-alert system display.Figure 9.2 Social Media Radar pre-alert system developed by UC3M and RTVE.Figure 9.3 Summary of AI phases in workflows.

5 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Source: author.

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4 Introduction

5 Table of Contents