News at work : imitation in an age of information abundance
Before news organizations began putting their content online, people got the news in print or on TV and almost always outside of the workplace. But nowadays, most of us keep an eye on the headlines from our desks at work, and we have become accustomed to instant access to a growing supply of constantly updated stories on the Web. This change in the amount of news available as well as how we consume it has been coupled with an unexpected development in editorial labor: rival news organizations can now keep tabs on the competition and imitate them, resulting in a decrease in the diversity of the
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Studying imitation in the South
The divergent logics of hard- and soft-news production
Monitoring and imitation in news production
The homogenization of news products
The consumption of online news at work
The consumption of increasingly less diverse news content
The work of news in an age of information abundance