Conditioning Factors on the Content Quality of the Ecuadorian Online Media: Journalistic Convergence, Thematic Agenda and Immediacy
Abstract
This paper aims to determine the conditioning factors of the quality of news stories in digital journalism. The research addresses the quality of fifteen online media, and assesses them according with their original media outlet: radio, television or print. The study finds that quality content mainly is influenced by three aspects. First, the convergence processes that determine the ability of the media to adapt to online journalism. Second, the prominence of certain themes and their relationship with the development of some characteristics associated with quality journalism. Third, the immediacy as an homogenizer element in all online media. Thereby, we identify two elements that cause a heterogeneous development of the journalistic profession on the Internet and a third element that contributes to the uniform presentation of news stories in digital journalism.
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