E-Books →The News Gap When the Information Preferences of the Media and the Public Diverge

An analysis of divergent online news preferences of journalists and consumers and what this means for media and democracy in the digital age.
The websites of major media organizations―CNN, USA Today, the Guardian, and others―provide the public with much of the online news they consume. But although a large proportion of the top stories these sites disseminate cover politics, international relations, and economics, users of these sites show a preference (as evidenced by the most viewed stories) for news about sports, crime, entertainment, and weather. In this book, Pablo Boczkowski and Eugenia Mitchelstein examine the divergence in preferences and consider its implications for the media industry and democratic life in the digital age.
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