TY - JOUR
T1 - Newsroom topic teams
T2 - Journalists' assessments of effects on news routines and newspaper quality
AU - Hansen, Kathleen A.
AU - Neuzil, Mark
AU - Ward, Jean
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - This study examines the effects of newsroom topic teams on news routines and newspaper quality. It is based on a census survey of journalists at the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which both instituted topic teams within six months of each other. Survey results are supplemented by focus group and written comments from journalists in these two Newspaper Guild newsrooms. The study finds that the effects of the team system on the news process and news quality have been mixed, but predominantly negative, in the assessment of these journalists.
AB - This study examines the effects of newsroom topic teams on news routines and newspaper quality. It is based on a census survey of journalists at the Star Tribune (Minneapolis) and the St. Paul Pioneer Press, which both instituted topic teams within six months of each other. Survey results are supplemented by focus group and written comments from journalists in these two Newspaper Guild newsrooms. The study finds that the effects of the team system on the news process and news quality have been mixed, but predominantly negative, in the assessment of these journalists.
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U2 - 10.1177/107769909807500413
DO - 10.1177/107769909807500413
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0040094084
SN - 1077-6990
VL - 75
SP - 803
EP - 821
JO - Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly
JF - Journalism and Mass Communication Quaterly
IS - 4
ER -