2021/05/13 by B. Rech, Benjamin Rech, Matthias Meyer +2
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computers and Society (cs.CY) #Digital Innovation in Industries #Digitalization, Law, and Regulation #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Media Studies and Communication #cs.CY
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2105.07881
in German
arxiv created 2021/05/13 · openalex publication_date 2021/05/13 · arxiv updated 2021/05/18 · openalex created_date 2021/06/07 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
In an online survey in December 2020, 385 journalists in Germany were surveyed about platforms in journalism and about their frequency of use and willingness to adopt emerging technologies. Journalists have a commitment to publish on a journalism platform on a full-time basis. Freelancers have a higher commitment than employed journalists. A platform subscription model is rated more attractive than advertising for a platform. Employed journalists on the other hand consider advertising more attractive than freelance journalists. For German journalists it is important that the platform is developed in Europe or Germany and that it sets high standards on data protection. Multimedia forms and interactive elements are used occasionally, often or always. Stories or Reels are predominantly not used. AI software as well as editorial analytics are rarely or never used. Apart from stories or reels, journalists intend to use multimedia forms and interactive elements more often in the future. They are receptive to software for research process documentation as well as to the analysis of indicators of their own publications. Software as a support for text production, image selection or headline suggestions is mostly rejected.