Journalists perceive stories published in local news outlets to be less newsworthy

Mark Coddington & Seth Lewis, Nieman Lab, 05 September 2020

A survey-based experiment with 1,510 American newspaper journalists has discovered journalists consider news stories published in national publications didn't give stories a newsworthiness boost compared to the same story being unpublished or published by a mid-size paper. However, a story published in a local newspaper was seen as less newsworthy than one that hadn’t been published at all.

To read more go to Nieman Lab