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PRIOR, MARKUS. "Any Good News in Soft News? The Impact of Soft News Preference on Political Knowledge." Political Communication 20, no. 2 (April 2003): 149–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10584600390211172.

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Scott, David K., and Robert H. Gobetz. "Hard News/Soft News Content of the National Broadcast Networks, 1972–1987." Journalism Quarterly 69, no. 2 (June 1992): 406–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909206900214.

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In recent years there has been a slight tendency for television network news programs to increase the amount of soft news presented mostly during the last one-third of the newscast. Content analysis of the Vanderbilt Television News Abstracts from 1972 through 1987 shows that, although all networks did increase the amount of soft news, this type news remained a small part of the newscast. Soft news is defined as stories that focus on a human interest topic, feature or nonpolicy issue.

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Saad, Hamza, and Mahinaz Hamza. "Patterns and Motivations Predicting Mobile Hard News and Soft News Consumption." International Journal of Customer Relationship Marketing and Management 12, no. 3 (July 2021): 49–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcrmm.2021070104.

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The purpose of this study is to examine Emirati university students' usage of smartphones as a news resource. In addition to the motivations, patterns, and relationships between hard news and soft news consumption and the different gratifications sought, this study adopted perspectives from the both the uses and gratifications and media displacement theories and utilized a quantitative research design. Data was collected from 488 undergraduate students between February 2019 and March 2019. Results revealed that students were interested in both hard and soft news, but there was 7% more soft news consumption by students. Additionally, results revealed that smartphones have become students' main source of news as they allow them to find information easily. When assessing the relationships and dynamics between mobile news and the gratifications sought, results revealed that the convenience gratification was the only predictor of both mobile soft news and hard news out of all the gratifications offered.

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Glogger, Isabella. "Soft Spot for Soft News? Influences of Journalistic Role Conceptions on Hard and Soft News Coverage." Journalism Studies 20, no. 16 (March 7, 2019): 2293–311. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2019.1588149.

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Trimmer, Barry. "Soft Robots in the News." Soft Robotics 1, no. 2 (June 2014): 103–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1089/soro.2014.1500.

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Strickland, Eliza. "Medical robots go soft [News]." IEEE Spectrum 54, no. 4 (April 2017): 11–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mspec.2017.7880445.

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Pearson, George DH, and Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick. "Perusing pages and skimming screens: Exploring differing patterns of selective exposure to hard news and professional sources in online and print news." New Media & Society 20, no. 10 (February 18, 2018): 3580–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1461444818755565.

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Changing structures to online news have instigated concerns that the electorate may predominantly consume soft news for entertainment purposes while neglecting public affairs information. The Internet in particular brought an increase in outlets, including unconventional low-credibility sources. A 2 × 2 × 2 within-subjects experiment ( n = 197) investigated whether delivery format (print vs online) and source type (high vs low credibility) shape the extent to which recipients select different types of news (public affairs news vs soft news). Participants browsed 32 news items, half of them hard news and the other half soft news, either associated with high- or low-credibility sources, and did so online or via print magazine. Results show that greater preference for online news fostered selective exposure to hard news. Greater habitual news use via social media reduced selective exposure to news from high-credibility sources.

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Andersen, Kim, Camilla Bjarnøe, Erik Albæk, and Claes H. De Vreese. "How News Type Matters." Journal of Media Psychology 28, no. 3 (July 2016): 111–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000201.

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Abstract. Today, citizens have the possibility to use many different types of news media and participate politically in various ways. This study examines how use of different news types (hard and soft TV news as well as printed and online versions of broadsheet and tabloid newspapers) indirectly affects changes in offline and online political participation through current affairs knowledge and internal efficacy during nonelection and election time. We use a four-wave national panel survey from Denmark (N = 2,649) and show that use of hard TV news and broadsheets as well as online tabloids positively affects changes in both offline and online political participation through current affairs knowledge and internal efficacy. Use of soft TV news and printed tabloids has a negative indirect effect. These results are more pronounced for online political participation and during election time. However, use of soft TV news also has a positive direct effect on changes in political participation, which suggests a positive impact via other processes.

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Amazeen, Michelle A. "News in an Era of Content Confusion: Effects of News Use Motivations and Context on Native Advertising and Digital News Perceptions." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 97, no. 1 (November 7, 2019): 161–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699019886589.

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This study examined the effects of news use motivations and differing native advertising contexts (hard vs. soft news) on the ability to perceive commercialized content, evaluations of native advertising, and ensuing digital news perceptions. Based upon the framework of the persuasion knowledge model, an online experiment was conducted among a sample of U.S. adults ( N = 684). Engaging with news for informational motivations conditioned perceptions of advertising as did the contextual effects of hard versus soft news. Furthermore, hard-news approaches to native advertising were perceived more unfavorably by audiences and tarnished the subsequent reporting of actual journalists.

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Boukes, Mark, and Rens Vliegenthart. "News Consumption and Its Unpleasant Side Effect." Journal of Media Psychology 29, no. 3 (July 2017): 137–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105/a000224.

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Abstract. Following the news is generally understood to be crucial for democracy as it allows citizens to politically participate in an informed manner; yet, one may wonder about the unintended side effects it has for the mental well-being of citizens. With news focusing on the negative and worrisome events in the world, framing that evokes a sense of powerlessness, and lack of entertainment value, this study hypothesizes that news consumption decreases mental well-being via negative hedonic experiences; thereby, we differentiate between hard and soft news. Using a panel survey in combination with latent growth curve modeling (n = 2,767), we demonstrate that the consumption of hard news television programs has a negative effect on the development of mental well-being over time. Soft news consumption, by contrast, has a marginally positive impact on the trend in well-being. This can be explained by the differential topic focus, framing and style of soft news vis-à-vis hard news. Investigating the effects of news consumption on mental well-being provides insight into the impact news exposure has on variables other than the political ones, which definitively are not less societally relevant.

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Plasser, Fritz. "From Hard to Soft News Standards?" Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 10, no. 2 (April 2005): 47–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1081180x05277746.

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BAUM, MATTHEW A. "Soft News and Foreign Policy: How Expanding the Audience Changes the Policies." Japanese Journal of Political Science 8, no. 1 (March 14, 2007): 115–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1468109907002502.

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Since the 1980s, the mass media have changed the way they cover major political stories, like foreign policy crises. As a consequence, what the public learns about these events has changed. More media outlets cover major events than in the past, including the entertainment-oriented soft news media. When they do cover a political story, soft news outlets focus more on “human drama” than traditional news media – especially the character and motivations of decision-makers, as well as individual stories of heroism or tragedy – and less on the political or strategic context, or substantive nuances, of policy debates. Many Americans who previously ignored most political news now attend to some information about major political events, like wars, via the soft news media. These changes have important implications for democratic politics. Most importantly, a large number of particularly persuadable potential voters are now tuning in to politics via soft news outlets. This gives politicians an incentive to develop strategies for reaching out to them. Such individuals care less about the nuances of policy and more about the personality of leaders and any sensational human drama that a policy, like a war, entails. Soft news consumers care less about geopolitics than about body bags. Politicians who want their votes are therefore likely to emphasize body bags more than geopolitics. In short, the “new” media environment changes both the style and substance of politics in democracies.

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Rosendo, Andre, Josie Hughes, Fabio Giardina, and Fumiya Iida. "News and Views: Soft Solutions for Hard Problems [Society News]." IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 23, no. 3 (September 2016): 125–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mra.2016.2588118.

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Switzer, J. Matt, Kelley Buchheister, and Barbara Dougherty. "Examining number: A soft Idea." Teaching Children Mathematics 21, no. 2 (September 2014): 69–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.21.2.0069.

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This department publishes brief news articles, announcements, and guest editorials on current mathematics education issues that stimulate the interest of TCM readers and cause them to think about an issue or consider a specific viewpoint about some aspect of mathematics education.

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Garrison, Bruce, and Michael B. Salwen. "Professional Orientations of Sports Journalists: A Study of Associated Press Sports Editors." Newspaper Research Journal 10, no. 4 (June 1989): 77–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/073953298901000408.

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Sports journalism may not be the bastard step-child of newspapering much longer. A national survey of sports editors finds they see sports journalists as possessing some of the best professional traits of both “hard” and “soft” news writers, as well as other desirable characteristics that they believe neither soft and hard news writers possess.

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Nguyen, An. "THE EFFECT OF SOFT NEWS ON PUBLIC ATTACHMENT TO THE NEWS." Journalism Studies 13, no. 5-6 (October 2012): 706–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2012.664318.

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Lehman-Wilzig, Sam N., and Michal Seletzky. "Hard news, soft news, ‘general’ news: The necessity and utility of an intermediate classification." Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism 11, no. 1 (February 2010): 37–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884909350642.

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Todo, Naoya, Tetsuro Kobayashi, and Kazunori Inamasu. "Does Soft News Exposure Enhance Political Interest?" Kodo Keiryogaku (The Japanese Journal of Behaviormetrics) 43, no. 2 (2016): 129–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.2333/jbhmk.43.129.

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Horan, Tyler J. "‘SOFT’ VERSUS ‘HARD’ NEWS ON MICROBLOGGING NETWORKS." Information, Communication & Society 16, no. 1 (February 2013): 43–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1369118x.2011.649774.

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North, Louise. "The Gender of “soft” and “hard” news." Journalism Studies 17, no. 3 (December 8, 2014): 356–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2014.987551.

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Jóhannsdóttir, Valgerður. "Commercialization in the Icelandic Press: An analysis of hard and soft news in major print and online media in Iceland in times of change." Journalism 21, no. 11 (April 29, 2018): 1762–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884918768494.

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This article examines the commercialization of content in print and online newspapers in Iceland over the past decade in the context of international trends. Market forces are said to be guiding the values and priorities of editorial decisions in news media in Western countries more than ever before. Traditional revenue models have been shattered and competition for audiences and advertising has intensified, not least because of technological changes. Research indicates that media in some countries are more resistant to commercialization than others and that online newspapers may be more susceptible to market pressures than print media. This study explores the amount and prominence of hard and soft news in the main Icelandic newspapers and their online counterparts in 2005, 2009, and 2013. The findings suggest that commercialization increased considerably in online newspapers that published significantly more soft news in 2013 compared to 2005. In print newspapers, the increase in soft news coverage was significantly less during the same period.

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Kwak, Kyu, Seong Hong, and Sang Lee. "An Analysis of a Repetitive News Display Phenomenon in the Digital News Ecosystem." Sustainability 10, no. 12 (December 12, 2018): 4736. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su10124736.

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In South Korea, approximately 88.5% of online users have obtained news and information from news aggregators such as Naver and Daum. Since most users read news on the internet, a new type of tabloid journalism, referred to as “news abuse,” has emerged in South Korea. “News abuse” is jargon used in South Korea to mean the repetitive display of news by online news publishers. “News abuse” is similar to “clickbait” in its use of clickbait headline links to attract online users’ attention and encourage them to click on links. This study explores the characteristics of news abusing phenomena in South Korea. With content analysis of 2101 articles (609 stories for soft news and 1402 stories for hard news), we attempt to investigate when news abuse saliently occurs and to whom news abusing is attributed. Our results show that news abuse is prevalent among South Korean newspapers during the first three hours after initial news reports are made and when people have time to rest after lunch between noon and 3 p.m. Moreover, the highest percentage of news abuse of soft news was found among tabloid daily newspapers, while that of hard news was found among daily newspapers. In addition, intermedia news abuse was more frequently utilized than intramedia news abuse. The percentage of intermedia abuse, in particular, was higher in general daily newspapers and business newspapers than in other news media platforms. By contrast, the percentage of intramedia news abuse was significantly higher in 24-h news channels. News abuse may be a side effect of news aggregation in the division of labor of news production and news distribution. More steps are required to decrease news abuse, which will lead to maintenance of a healthy digital news ecosystem and development of the news aggregation business.

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Steiner, Miriam. "Soft Presentation of Hard News? A Content Analysis of Political Facebook Posts." Media and Communication 8, no. 3 (August 24, 2020): 244–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.17645/mac.v8i3.3152.

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The current media environment is primarily characterised by a large amount of information and, in contrast, rather fragmented audience attention. This is especially true for social media, particularly Facebook, which have become important news sources for many people. Journalists cannot help but publish content on Facebook if they want to reach the part of their audience that mainly—or even only—consumes news there. On Facebook, journalists are at the mercy of the algorithm that determines the visibility of their content. Because user engagement is a crucial factor in the algorithm, concerns have been raised that journalists are abandoning their normative quality standards to make the news as attractive as possible to the audience—at the expense of media performance. A softened presentation of the news, particularly in Facebook posts, may help achieve this aim, but research on this subject is lacking. The present study analyses this practice of softening the news in four German media outlets’ (<em>BILD</em>,<em> FAZ</em>,<em> Der Spiegel</em>,<em> Tagesschau</em>) political Facebook posts. The results show that the overall level of news softening is low to medium. Furthermore, comparing them to website teasers reveals that news softening is only slightly higher on Facebook (mainly <em>BILD</em> and <em>Der Spiegel</em>), and that there are no converging trends between quality or public service media and tabloid media. Exaggerated fears about news softening are therefore unnecessary. Continued analysis of news softening, as well as ongoing adaption of the concept according to dynamic developments, is nevertheless important.

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Arcostanzo, Francesca, and Alice Pulvirenti. "When News Goes Online. A Cross-Media Analysis of Editorial Logics and Consumers’ Feedbacks in the Printed, Online and Facebook Versions of the Italian Newspaper la Repubblica." Romanian Journal of Communication and Public Relations 17, no. 3 (December 1, 2015): 85. http://dx.doi.org/10.21018/rjcpr.2015.3.170.

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<p>As a consequence of the advent and diffusion of new media, one of the most accredited hypotheses in the realm of mediatization theory has been that the essential prerequisites of mediatization would have slowly started to disappear. On the contrary, we hypothesize that the unprecedented knowledge about users’ preferences given to media companies would be reflected in the logics of news production, which would shift from being guided by internal logics and standards of newsworthiness to be driven by an audience-oriented commercial logic. Therefore, we expect storytelling techniques to prevail in online news production, with <em>soft news </em>becoming progressively prevalent moving from traditional to new media. We address our hypothesis performing a cross-media analysis of the Italian newspaper <em>la Repubblica</em>, investigating both the different editorial logics underlying the selection and framing of contents as well as the relationship between the general news frame and the level of readers’ engagement. In our findings, <em>soft news </em>prevails regardless of the platform, also following a positive trend as we move towards Facebook. Moreover, <em>soft news </em>seems to be able to foster a higher level of users’ engagement as expressed in terms of likes and shares, while <em>hard news </em>prevails in commenting activities.</p>

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BAUM, MATTHEW A. "Sex, Lies, and War: How Soft News Brings Foreign Policy to the Inattentive Public." American Political Science Review 96, no. 1 (March 2002): 91–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055402004252.

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This study argues that, due to selective political coverage by the entertainment-oriented, soft news media, many otherwise politically inattentive individuals are exposed to information about high-profile political issues, most prominently foreign policy crises, as an incidental by-product of seeking entertainment. I conduct a series of statistical investigations examining the relationship between individual media consumption and attentiveness to several recent high-profile foreign policy crisis issues. For purposes of comparison, I also investigate several non-foreign crisis issues, some of which possess characteristics appealing to soft news programs and others of which lack such characteristics. I find that information about foreign crises, and other issues possessing similar characteristics, presented in a soft news context, has indeed attracted the attention of politically uninvolved Americans. The net effect is a reduced disparity in attentiveness to select high-profile political issues across different segments of the public.

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Martínez-Costa, María Pilar, Cristina Sánchez-Blanco, and Javier Serrano-Puche. "News consumption of hard and soft topics in Spain: Sources, formats and access routes." Communications 45, no. 2 (May 26, 2020): 198–222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/commun-2019-2051.

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AbstractThe variety of devices and the socialization of consumption have decentralized access to online information which is not retrieved directly from media websites but through social networks. These same factors have driven user interest towards a wider range of both ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ topics. The aim of this article is to identify the consumption of news on these topics among digital users in Spain. The methodology used is based on an analysis of the survey conducted as part of the Digital News Report 2017. Following this analysis, a conclusion has been reached that the most popular hard news stories in Spain are those related to the local and regional community itself, and to health and education, while the most popular soft news stories relate to lifestyles and arts and culture. The analysis has revealed that increased interest in news and greater topic specialization result in more diversified use of sources, formats, and complementary routes.

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Demers, Elizabeth, and Clara Vega. "Soft Information in Earnings Announcements : News or Noise?" International Finance Discussion Paper 2008, no. 951 (October 2008): 1–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.17016/ifdp.2008.951.

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Kuo, Hsin-Yu, Su-Yen Chen, and Yu-Ting Lai. "Investigating COVID-19 News before and after the Soft Lockdown: An Example from Taiwan." Sustainability 13, no. 20 (October 17, 2021): 11474. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su132011474.

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COVID-19 caused an unprecedented public health crisis and was declared a global pandemic on 11 March 2020, by the World Health Organization. The Taiwanese government’s early deployment mitigated the effect of the pandemic, yet the breakout in May 2021 brought a new challenge. This study focuses on examining Taiwanese newspaper articles regarding the government response before and after the soft lockdown, collecting 125,570 articles reported by three major news channels from 31 December 2019, to 30 June 2021, and splitting them into four stages. Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic modeling and sentiment analysis were used to depict the overall picture of Taiwan’s pandemic. While the news media focused on the impact and shock of the pandemic in the initial stage, prevention measures were more present in the last stage. Then, to focus on the government response indicators, we retrieved 31,089 related news from 125,570 news articles and categorized them into ten indicators, finding the news centered on the fundamental measures that were taken early and that were transformed into advanced measures in the latest and hardest period of the pandemic. Furthermore, this paper examines the temporal distribution of the news related to each indicator with the support of a sentiment analysis of the news’ titles and content, indicating the preparation of Taiwanese society to confront the pandemic.

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Jarvis, Sharon E., and Maegan Stephens. "News-Seekers vs. Gate-Keepers." International Journal of Signs and Semiotic Systems 4, no. 2 (July 2015): 50–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijsss.2015070104.

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Traditional research on gatekeeping examines how journalists, editors, and publishers construct and position information to become news. Opportunities for interactivity in online news outlets, however, are creating space for audience members to also play this role. This article analyzes the tone and scope of the stories appearing on the print front-pages in the online most-read lists in twelve news outlets. Findings reveal how news-seekers prefer serious soft news articles, stories that position readers prominently, and fact-laden updates. These trends are interpreted in light of an elitist approach to gatekeeping versus a more egalitarian mindset and the authors conclude that the articles promoted by news-seekers are far less frivolous than feared.

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Glogger, Isabella, and Lukas P. Otto. "Journalistic Views on Hard and Soft News: Cross-Validating a Popular Concept in a Factorial Survey." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 96, no. 3 (January 2, 2019): 811–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699018815890.

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Despite the popularity of the concept of hard and soft news, researchers regularly criticize the vague definitions and inconsistent conceptualizations. Following claims for standardization of concept in journalism research, this article aims to cross-validate the most recent understanding of the concept. We conducted a factorial survey with newspaper journalists to probe the question as to which of the theoretically assumed dimensions of the concept are referred to by journalists to distinguish hard from soft news. We find the dimensions “topic,” “relevance,” “framing,” and “opinion” to exert influence on journalists’ understanding of the concept.

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Havrylets, Yurii, Volodymyr Rizun, Maksym Khylko, and Sergii Tukaiev. "Escape and Entertainment as Key Motives for Viewing TV News in the Light of Ritualistic Use of Television." Current Issues of Mass Communication, no. 23 (2018): 23–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.17721/2312-5160.2018.23.23-34.

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n this study, a scientific interpretation of escape and entertainment TV viewing motives is considered in the view of Uses and Gratifications Theory. More specifically, it is analysed how the TV viewing motives, initially elaborated for general TV use, are important to the TV news consumption. How strong are the motivations to escape and seek for entertainment in TV newscasts? Given that primary goal of TV news viewing is obtaining information about the society and the world, TV news largely perform the instrumental role. However, in digital era, TV news are a combination of hard news (serious newsworthy topics, with analytical approach) and soft news (entertaining news items that rely mainly on attracting viewers’ attention, and relief after watching hard news). After TV viewers return home, there is usually no matter what to watch, but it is important just to relax. Though the amount of soft news is relatively small, it was studied how strong viewers’ motive is to watch an average TV newscast as a means to escape or being entertained. Our study indicates that TV news has to be considered within two motivational patterns elaborated by U&G scholars for general TV use: instrumental and ritualistic viewing. Escape and entertainment motives are indisputable attributes of ritualistic use, whereas informational or surveillance motive leads to instrumental use. Within Uses and Gratifications Theory, the concepts of escapism and entertainment occupy central positions in the row of TV viewing motives. However, they are often considered as a motivation to watch entertainment TV – fictional or reality-based programmes. But specific motivational structure that drives viewers to watch TV news remain largely meagre and divergent. In this study there was analysed the evidence that indicate various extents of strength of escapism and entertainment motives towards TV news viewing. Notwithstanding some criticisms, U&G proved to be an enduring scientific approach. In U&G research, watching TV news is regarded as a process, aimed at obtaining messages about the world and neighbourhood, as well as information necessary for everyday decision making by the viewer and her/his relatives. In recent decades, the infotainment genre or soft news has been becoming more popular, and more and more tabloid TV stations tend to consider that TV news should entertain the viewers not less than to inform, or even more.

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Shen, Neil. "The Newspaper Industry in a Changing Landscape The Shift in News Content of Various Newspapers as a Response to the Rise of Social Media." Network and Communication Technologies 5, no. 1 (November 11, 2019): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/nct.v5n1p1.

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This paper examines the association between the rise of social media and the types of news content produced by newspaper outlets. Over the past two decades, the rise of social media has precipitated a decline in the role of traditional newspaper outlets. I present two hypotheses and their ensuing rationale – hypothesis one describes how newspapers may increase hard news content to further consolidate their reader base, while hypothesis two postulates that hard news content will decrease as papers try to regain the readers they lost to social media. Data was collected from two reputable and two less-reputable newspaper outlets to see how they reacted to increases in social media usage and whether their responses varied. For each newspaper outlet, the author identified the number of articles that included keywords drawn from hard news and soft news word banks. Using a ratio of hard to soft news, regression analysis was then performed. After running regression analysis with trend data from the Pew Research Center on the number of US adults with social media accounts, results indicate a moderate negative correlation amongst the two more reputable newspapers and no correlation amongst less reputable newspapers, meaning that the more reputable newspapers tended to decrease hard news content as social media became more popular.

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Lin, Sin-Jin, and Ming-Fu Hsu. "DECISION MAKING BY EXTRACTING SOFT INFORMATION FROM CSR NEWS REPORT." Technological and Economic Development of Economy 24, no. 4 (June 29, 2018): 1344–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/tede.2018.3121.

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This study examines the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) news reports on corporate operating performance forecasting using a large database of publicly-listed electronics firms in Taiwan. Applying text mining techniques and latent topic modelling, we construct and measure the intensity of the CSR-corpus index (ICSRI), which can compress tremendous amounts of CSR textual information content into synthesized meaningful dimensions. By doing so, we are able to break down CSR news reports into multiple dimensions and then examine which dimension(s) affects operating performance. To offer decision-makers with a comprehensive, overarching view of the corporate’s operations, this study incorporates balanced scorecards (BSC) and multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA) to form a final performance rank. The proposed approach, supported by real samples, can assist both internal and external stakeholders in allocating scarce resources to specific CSR dimensions to enhance a corporate’s growth potential as well as to achieve a win-win situation.

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Broz, Vlatko. "Semantics of ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ in relation to Brexit." Tradterm 37, no. 2 (January 29, 2021): 488–514. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2317-9511.v37p488-514.

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This paper analyses the semantics of ‘hardness’ and ‘softness’ in relation to the noun ‘Brexit’ in a news corpus. These concrete descriptions are frequently applied metaphorically to the complex political process of a nation exiting an economic union. First there is a discussion about what other kinds of things can be hard and soft in the NOW (‘News on the Web’) corpus, followed by an analysis of synonyms for hard Brexit and soft Brexit, evaluating their semantic prosody. Only four genuine collocations with the synonyms of hard Brexit have been found in the corpus, whereas seven have been found for soft Brexit. The paper shows how a corpus can be analysed to demonstrate the way in which the semantic prosody of a metaphorical description is negotiated in part through synonyms that exaggerate or mitigate its positive or negative associations.

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Boukes, Mark, and Hajo G. Boomgaarden. "Soft News With Hard Consequences? Introducing a Nuanced Measure of Soft Versus Hard News Exposure and Its Relationship With Political Cynicism." Communication Research 42, no. 5 (June 18, 2014): 701–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650214537520.

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Topic, Martina. "Not bloke-ified enough? Women journalists, supermarket industry and the debate on sugar in the British press (2010-2015)." Newspaper Research Journal 39, no. 4 (October 31, 2018): 433–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0739532918806872.

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This article analyzes debates on sugar and the supermarket industry in the British national press in the 2010-2015 period. This article’s primary premise is that traditionally “female” subject areas of journalism (health, supermarkets) migrated from “soft” news sections to “hard” news pages of newspapers and, when this happened, women journalists were squeezed out of covering these issues; instead, most topics on hard news pages become the preserve of male journalists.

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Szostek, Joanna. "Russian influence on news media in Belarus." Communist and Post-Communist Studies 48, no. 2-3 (June 2015): 123–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.postcomstud.2015.06.007.

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This article investigates Russian media influence in Belarus during the second half of 2010, when an “information war” broke out between Moscow and Minsk. Samples of news content are analysed to reveal the varying portrayals of Russia generated by leading broadcasters and publishers; interviews with media professionals shed light on the forces which shaped the news. The article considers the outcomes of the information war and argues that the impact of Russian news exports lay more in their capacity to provoke than their capacity to “elicit attraction” as envisaged by the literature on soft power.

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Knies, G. "Soft and hard photoproduction news from H1 at HERA." Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 19, no. 10 (October 1, 1993): 1523–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0954-3899/19/10/009.

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Hsu, Ming-Fu, Te-Min Chang, and Sin-Jin Lin. "NEWS-BASED SOFT INFORMATION AS A CORPORATE COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE." Technological and Economic Development of Economy 26, no. 1 (November 21, 2019): 48–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/tede.2019.11328.

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This study establishes a decision-making conceptual architecture that evaluates decision making units (DMUs) from numerous aspects. The architecture combines financial indicators together with a variety of data envelopment analysis (DEA) specifications to encapsulate more information to give a complete picture of a corporate’s operation. To make outcomes more accessible to non-specialists, multidimensional scaling (MDS) was performed to visualize the data. Most previous studies on forecasting model construction have relied heavily on hard information, with quite a few works taking into consideration soft information, which contains much denser and more diverse messages than hard information. To overcome this challenge, we consider two different types of soft information: supply chain influential indicator (SCI) and sentimental indicator (STI). SCI is computed by joint utilization of text mining (TM) and social network analysis (SNA), with TM identifying the corporate’s SC relationships from news articles and SNA to determining their impact on the network. STI is extracted from an accounting narrative so as to comprehensively illustrate the relationships between pervious and future performances. The analyzed outcomes are then fed into an artificial intelligence (AI)-based technique to construct the forecasting model. The introduced model, examined by real cases, is a promising alternative for performance forecasting.

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Baum, Matthew A., and Angela S. Jamison. "TheOprahEffect: How Soft News Helps Inattentive Citizens Vote Consistently." Journal of Politics 68, no. 4 (November 2006): 946–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2508.2006.00482.x.

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Jurkowitz, Mark. "Marry a Multimillionaire: Soft News for the New Millennium." Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics 5, no. 3 (June 2000): 108–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1081180x00005003012.

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Lester, Libby, and Brett Hutchins. "Soft journalism, politics and environmental risk: An Australian story." Journalism 13, no. 5 (October 24, 2011): 654–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464884911421706.

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Complex environmental science issues are regularly reported by the news media in highly personalized and symbolic terms in order to make the consequences of environmental degradation and risk comprehensible to the public. This article presents a case study showing how the tension between political statements, human-interest narratives and scientific credibility in this style of reporting can undercut citizen-led claims about environmental risk factors. This tension creates discursive openings that government and industry use to deny the existence of these factors or contest their consequences. The evidence presented in support of this argument relates to episodes of Australian Story, a popular ‘soft journalism’ programme, shown on the national public service broadcaster during the 2010 Tasmanian state election campaign. The timing and content of this programme produced extensive debate across multiple mediums about environmental risks, providing insight into the relationship between politics, journalism and the contested status of environmental science knowledge claims in the news.

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Yousaf, Zahid, Rooh ul Amin Khan, and Malik Adnan. "News Values on Social Media and use of Twitter." Global Political Review IV, no. IV (December 30, 2019): 78–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gpr.2019(iv-iv).09.

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The deceptively simple question remains unquestioned as "what news values are there particularly for social media?" As we implement the future of News writing in the hand of digital age, news values need to be identified and questioned. This article examines the main features of news values of social media specifically of Twitter which is no doubt the rapid source of news dissemination. This study explores the extent to which Harcup and ONeills given news values for journalism and how they faced by social media platforms. Evaluation by researchers shows that major chunk was "Relevancy" While dominant geographical proximity found to be mainly adopted by twitter account holders. Whereas, the least one unsurprisingly "Entertainment" which literally prove that Twitter is habitually used for hard news rather than soft news.

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Reaves, Shiela. "The Vulnerable Image: Categories of Photos as Predictor of Digital Manipulation." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 72, no. 3 (September 1995): 706–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107769909507200319.

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This study suggests that the tolerance of newspaper editors for computer manipulation depends on the category of photographs. Editors differ significantly in their tolerance level of computer manipulation of spot news, feature, and photo illustrations. In a survey experiment among 677 newspaper editors, results suggest that editors use a continuum of photo categories. Editors are intolerant of altering spot -news photos, but much more tolerant of altering soft-news photos such as feature photos and photo illustrations.

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Mackay, Jenn Burleson, and Erica Bailey. "Succulent Sins, Personalized Politics, and Mainstream Media’s Tabloidization Temptation." International Journal of Technoethics 3, no. 4 (October 2012): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jte.2012100104.

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This study uses an experiment to analyze how mainstream journalism’s use of tabloid writing techniques affects online credibility. Participants read four news stories and rated their credibility using McCroskey’s Source Credibility Scale. Participants found stories written with a tabloid style less credible than more traditional stories. Tabloidized soft news stories were more credible than tabloidized hard news stories. Results suggest that online news media may damage their credibility by using tabloidized writing techniques to increase readership. Furthermore, participants were less likely to enjoy stories written in a tabloidized style. An application of act utilitarianism suggests that tabloidization is an unethical method for increasing news readership.

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Bertomeu, Jeremy, and Iván Marinovic. "A Theory of Hard and Soft Information." Accounting Review 91, no. 1 (March 1, 2015): 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.2308/accr-51102.

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ABSTRACT We study optimal disclosure via two competing communication channels: hard information whose value has been verified, and soft disclosures such as forecasts, unaudited statements, and press releases. We show that certain soft disclosures may contain as much information as hard disclosures, and we establish that: (1) exclusive reliance on soft disclosures tends to convey bad news, (2) credibility is greater when unfavorable information is reported, and (3) misreporting is more likely when soft information is issued jointly with hard information. We also show that a soft report that is seemingly unbiased in expectation need not indicate truthful reporting. We demonstrate that mandatory disclosure of hard information reduces the transmission of soft information, and that the aggregation of hard with soft information will turn all information soft. JEL Classifications: D72; D82; D83; G20.

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Lasotte, Y. B., E. J. Garba, Y. M. Malgwi, and M. A. Buhari. "An Ensemble Machine Learning Approach for Fake News Detection and Classification Using a Soft Voting Classifier." European Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 6, no. 2 (March 3, 2022): 1–7. http://dx.doi.org/10.24018/ejece.2022.6.2.409.

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Fake news has grown in popularity and spread as a result of increased insecurity, political events, and pandemics, among other things. This study used an ensemble machine learning technique to better predict fake news on social media based on the content of news articles. The proposed model used a soft voting classifier to aggregate four machine learning algorithms, namely, Naïve Bayes, Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Logistic Regression, for the classification of news articles as fake or real. GridSearchCV was used to fine-tune the algorithms to get the optimal results during the training process. A Kaggle dataset was used for the experiment; it was comprised of both false and true news. Performance evaluation metrics were used to measure the performance of the base learners and our proposed ensemble technique on the dataset. The results of our experiment show that the proposed ensemble approach produced the highest accuracy, precision, recall, and F1_score values of 93%, 94%, 92%, and 93%, respectively, on the dataset as compared to the individual learners. This approach may also be used in other classification techniques for spam detection, sentiment analysis, and prediction of loan eligibility, among other things.

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Lee, Francis, Knut De Swert, and Akiba A. Cohen. "Do the Contents of Foreign News on Television Match Viewers’ Interests? A 12-Nation Study of Topics and Countries of Interest." Communication Research 44, no. 6 (January 13, 2015): 901–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093650214565923.

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This article draws upon content analytic and survey data from a 12-nation comparative study to examine the question of content-interest correspondence (CIC) regarding foreign news on television. That is, to what extent do the contents of foreign news aired on television match the interests that viewers have regarding foreign news? Treating CIC as a variable, the data show that, among the nations studied, CIC concerning foreign countries covered in the news is generally stronger than CIC regarding news topics. At the same time, the analysis examines whether the level of CIC relates to several national, media system, and viewer characteristics. The analysis shows that larger nations exhibit higher levels of CIC regarding topics and lower levels of CIC regarding countries. Also, CIC regarding news topics is lower in countries where the ownership and revenue structure of the television system leans toward commercialism and where television news focuses more heavily on soft news. Implications of the findings and directions for further research are discussed.

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Bhattacharya, Abhi. "Impact of Negative News on the U.S. Soft Drinks Industry." Indian Journal of Finance 13, no. 8 (August 31, 2019): 26. http://dx.doi.org/10.17010/ijf/2019/v13i8/146302.

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R, Suganya. "Stock Price Prediction Using Tech News Based Soft Computing Approach." International Journal of Advanced Trends in Computer Science and Engineering 9, no. 2 (April 25, 2020): 2049–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.30534/ijatcse/2020/177922020.

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