Traditional news factors are still widely recognised as explaining the functionality of news.
However, the recent development of social media forces us to consider new news factors …

News decisions of social media editors shape the news supply on social media channels
such as Facebook. This study assesses based on qualitative interviews and a quantitative …

News sharing across different social media platforms is increasingly impacting on our news
habits. However, we know very little about what makes news popular in these settings. The …

Despite the concern over deteriorating news quality on social media, few studies have
empirically examined how much high-quality news is rewarded on social media. Guided by …

News outlets increasingly position themselves on social media platforms with platform-
bound content next to their regular media offerings. At the time of writing, scholarship on …

In order to reach its audiences, journalism regularly turns to social media to promote its
articles. This study sets out to ascertain competing communicative logics of Facebook posts …

We investigated how sharing performance on Facebook and Twitter is influenced both by
news articles' content characteristics and the availability of additional news articles reporting …

The use of social media reinforces the change in journalism from a single-channel activity to
multichannel communications. News organizations and journalists must learn to …

This chapter investigates the news genres, styles and topics we share most, drawing on a
big data analysis of news shared on Facebook and Twitter from 160 English language news …

Now over a decade since the influential paper Understanding Social Media Logic by van
Dijck and Poell was published, the total number, sheer variety and penetration of social …