%0 Journal Article
%T Understanding encountering of story leads: A case of newspaper reporting behavior at Midwestern metropolitan
%A Matt Bird-Meyer
%A Sanda Erdelez
%J Newspaper Research Journal
%@ 2376-4791
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0739532918792234
%X An interdisciplinary approach explores how journalists embrace the unexpected as part of their reporting routines using Erdelez¡¯s framework of information encountering from the study of human information behavior and the concepts of news routines and story ideation from journalism studies. This paper provides a fresh perspective on the sociology of news in finding that the participating journalists embraced the unexpected by routinizing encountering of story leads and opening themselves to the opportunities they provide
%K news routines
%K qualitative
%K interview/diary/debriefing
%K newspapers
%K the United States
%K information encountering
%K communication theory and methodology
%K story ideation
%K human information behavior
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0739532918792234