What a “Platform Press” View Has to Offer

Abstract

To understand how journalism is made and what news is, it is helpful to center “the press” as an object of analysis and concern, a way to see the conditions under which news is made and made meaningful. For several years, many scholars and practitioners have focused on “the platform press” as a new way of understanding how journalism is made and what news is. In this essay I argue that that this “platform press” view enables three vital, generative ways to see the press: as platform labor, as a chance for normative honesty, and as an opportunity to take a long view of journalism and news.

Keywords:

• Platforms
• press
• normative theory
• journalism labor
• news ontologies

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