TY - JOUR
T1 - Individual and routine forces in gatekeeping
AU - Shoemaker, Pamela J.
AU - Eichholz, Martin
AU - Kim, Eunyi
AU - Wrigley, Brenda
PY - 2001
Y1 - 2001
N2 - Lewin's concept of "force" is explored in this study, which shows support for the proposition that newspaper gatekeeping is influenced more by forces on the routine level of analysis than by individual staff writers' characteristics. Newspaper stories about fifty Congressional bills were content analyzed, and two surveys were conducted of the stories' writers and of editors at their newspapers. No individual-level force was related to the quantity of coverage the bills received, whereas editors'aggregated assessment of bills' newsworthiness was positively related to quantity of bills' newspaper coverage.
AB - Lewin's concept of "force" is explored in this study, which shows support for the proposition that newspaper gatekeeping is influenced more by forces on the routine level of analysis than by individual staff writers' characteristics. Newspaper stories about fifty Congressional bills were content analyzed, and two surveys were conducted of the stories' writers and of editors at their newspapers. No individual-level force was related to the quantity of coverage the bills received, whereas editors'aggregated assessment of bills' newsworthiness was positively related to quantity of bills' newspaper coverage.
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U2 - 10.1177/107769900107800202
DO - 10.1177/107769900107800202
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0041026901
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 78
SP - 233
EP - 246
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly
IS - 2
ER -