Leigh Wright, assistant professor of journalism and mass communications, published an article “Perceptions About Posting: A Survey of Community Journalists about Social Media Postings” in Community Journalism.
Community Journalism is a journal of the Community Journalism Interest Group of AEJMC.
Her article appears in Volume 5:1 and is available at https://journal.community-journalism.net/sites/default/files/wright-final-cj2016.pdf
The article examined how journalists at newspapers of 30,000 circulation or less viewed their role as a gatekeeper in the social media age and how they used news values when determining their postings to social media.
The research found that journalists viewed helpfulness as the most important news value for Facebook and timeliness for Twitter.