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Pack journalism

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, pack journalism means: Reporting in which journalists follow one another's sources and angles instead of making independent choices.

In Turkish: sürü haberciliği

How it is used

Use critically for imitation in reporting decisions, not simply for journalists working together.

Example sentences

  1. Pack journalism left every crew outside the minister's office while residents went unheard.

    Following competitors can concentrate attention on one source and exclude others.

  2. The editor challenged pack journalism by assigning a reporter to examine the underlying records.

    An independent reporting task can test the assumptions shared by competitors.

Common collocations

  • avoid pack journalism
  • criticise pack journalism
  • an example of pack journalism
  • sourceA person, document or organisation that gives a journalist information for a story; also the place where a piece of information comes from.
  • angleThe particular point of view or focus a journalist chooses for a story, which decides which facts and voices come first.

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