Journalists are increasingly copying from each other. They rely too much on Google and other search engines and chiefly use other journalists’ production when searching the web, rather than primary sources such as the websites of political, scientific or cultural institutions.
These are the findings of a study from Leipzig University, which was commissioned by the North Rhine-Westphalia Regional Media Authority and presented on 23 June 2008 at a conference in Berlin (see the press release). (German language websites).
The study confirms findings by award-winning British journalist and author Nick Davies presented in his much-discussed book “Flat-Earth News”, which Davies is presenting on 3 July 2008 in Brussels (see elsewhere on this site).
See the Leipzig University study.
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