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Gatekeeping

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, gatekeeping means: The selection and filtering processes that determine which information reaches an audience.

In Turkish: haber seçimi ve süzgeçten geçirme, eşik bekçiliği

How it is used

Use for editorial or platform selection; decisions can concern prominence as well as inclusion or exclusion.

Example sentences

  1. Gatekeeping at the morning meeting determined which local stories received reporters.

    Selection operates before publication by distributing reporting resources.

  2. The research compared human gatekeeping with the choices made by a news recommendation system.

    Information can be filtered through both editorial judgement and automated systems.

Common collocations

  • editorial gatekeeping
  • gatekeeping process
  • algorithmic gatekeeping
  • editorA journalist who decides what is published or broadcast and checks, corrects and improves other people's work; also the person in charge of a whole publication or section.
  • newsworthyInteresting or important enough to be reported as news, for example because it is new, unusual, local, surprising or affects many people.

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