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Assistant Professor in Journalism Studies @journstudiesVU @VUamsterdam | Research about the relationship journalists, audiences and technology | tweets ENG/NL
Oct 6, 2021 20 tweets 6 min read
This news article “Drunk man helps emergency services search for himself” appeared on the website of a Flemish newspaper. Would you consider clicking on it? #ThesisThread 🧵1/ You may not, but it was recently one of their most read articles on the news website. It may not come as a surprise that these “most read lists” are often filled with the “softer news”, funny or bizarre articles rather than the harder, political or economic news. 2/