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News avoidance

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounCommon term

In journalism & media, news avoidance means: Deliberately limiting or avoiding contact with news.

In Turkish: haberlerden kaçınma

How it is used

Use for deliberate behavior, which may be selective or occasional rather than a complete rejection of news.

Example sentences

  1. Several participants described news avoidance during weeks of repetitive election coverage.

    Avoidance can be a temporary response to a particular kind of coverage.

  2. The survey asked whether news avoidance involved muting alerts or stopping all news use.

    Different degrees of avoidance should not be treated as the same behavior.

Common collocations

  • selective news avoidance
  • measure news avoidance
  • reasons for news avoidance
  • readershipThe people who read a particular newspaper, magazine or website, or the total number of them.
  • coverageThe way the media report an event or subject, and how much attention they give it, in print, online or on air.

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