Networked: Social media’s impact on news production in digital newsrooms

This study examines social media usage by journalists through the prism of the hierarchy of influences model. Utilizing interviews with 53 digital journalists, it identifies the actors playing a role in producing news through social media. It finds that journalists, opinion leaders, audience and extra-media organizations affect news production. It calls for a revisiting of the hierarchy of the influences model to understand on what levels of influence the audience affects news production