ABSTRACT

This qualitative study explores the information behavior of newspaper reporters regarding their serendipitous encounters with information that lead to story ideas, and how newspaper editors affect reporters’ ability to pursue such encountered ideas. As an interdisciplinary examination in human information behavior and journalism studies, behaviors and routines emerged that encouraged and potentially limited certain behaviors and routines. The findings also identify behaviors wherein newspaper editors match reporters with certain traits to certain story assignments.

中文翻译：

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报纸编辑与新闻偶然性的互动

摘要

这项定性研究探讨了报纸记者在偶然接触到引发故事想法的信息时的信息行为，以及报纸编辑如何影响记者追求这些想法的能力。作为人类信息行为和新闻研究的跨学科研究，出现了鼓励并可能限制某些行为和惯例的行为和惯例。调查结果还确定了报纸编辑将具有某些特征的记者与某些故事任务相匹配的行为。