Journalists and information access
Keywords:
Information assessing, Information needs, New report, Scientific journalismsAbstract
The purpose of this study is to identify the news report information needs, searching tools and frequency of assessing it. The sample consisted of twenty newspaper journalists, a Brazilian group for which user surveys are lacking. It was taking into accounting the following variables: The journalist difficulties of acquiring information such as time, available resources, scientific versus journalistic discourse, information overload and Internet impact. The results pointed out a wide diversity of opinions, some times antagonistic. However there are a consensus among the journalists, related to the difficult of understanding the scientific language and subsequently translated to an attractive subject to newspaper public reader almost illiteracy. The study also revealed that the impact of new technologies is changing the journalist’s way of seeking information.Downloads
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