Hamilton and Tworek urge researchers to broaden their studies to include a wider range of news outlets. Later, as noted by an executive who helped lead the effort, ‘The Times was THE pioneer in news digitization with its NYT Information Bank.’”Ĭase study examines use of the term ‘fake news’ “In 1980, the paper launched a computerized database of story abstracts for commercial use. “In 1940, when libraries were beginning to use microfilm, The Times became an early adopter of the medium,” Hamilton and Tworek write. Also, The New York Times promotes itself to researchers and has worked for generations to make its content available.
Many universities cannot afford subscriptions to digitized newspapers besides The New York Times and The Times of London, they note. Hamilton and Tworek write that there are two main reasons researchers turn so frequently to the NYT. Why researchers rely on The New York Times However, they do offer insights into how one of the country’s most influential publications interprets the world and engages with its audience. What does this mean for readers of academic research that focuses entirely or mostly on The New York Times? These studies are of limited value to anyone hoping to learn about U.S. “It’s a mistake to confuse with what people everywhere get daily.” “I think the value of our paper is to tell researchers that you can use The New York Times, but you need to realize The New York Times is representative of itself,” Hamilton says. It reported having close to 10 million paid subscribers as of May 2023.Īs many local news outlets struggle to survive, the NYT earned operating profits totaling $27.9 million in the first quarter of 2023, up from $6.3 million the first quarter of 2022. history - twice as many as The Washington Post, which has the second-highest number of Pulitzers. The news outlet, located in the nation’s most populous city, employs 1,700 journalists and has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other in U.S. Tworek, an associate professor of international history and public policy at the University of British Columbia. He cowrote the new paper, “Not All the News That’s Fit to Print: The New York Times as a Research Tool,” with Heidi J.S. The problem is the publication isn’t representative of U.S news outlets - it’s an outlier, John Maxwell Hamilton, a journalism professor at Louisiana State University, tells The Journalist's Resource. outlet included in a 2022 international study of how news media portrayed Christian churches and other religious organizations in their coverage of COVID-19. When researchers wanted to know how public support for legalizing marijuana has changed since the early 1980s, they studied survey data along with three decades of the newspaper’s coverage. For example, a paper published in late 2022 examines NYT articles about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to better understand how news outlets cover military PTSD and PTSD among the American public.
news outlets should stop focusing so much on The New York Times because it differs drastically from other news media, two scholars write in a new paper in the journal Political Communication.įor decades, researchers have looked to The New York Times to help them understand U.S. JWhy researchers shouldn’t study The New York Times to understand US news media as a wholeīy Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource June 27, 2023 Why researchers shouldn’t study The New York Times to understand US news media as a wholeīy Denise-Marie Ordway, The Journalist's Resource
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