Media Platforms, Formats, and News Cultures

Abstract

WITH BIANKA FRANCISTYOVÁ, SILVIA DALBEN FURTADO, WARAT KARUCHIT, MANASVI MAHESHWARI & KÉRLEY WINQUES he Worlds of Journalism Study 3 (WJS3) introduced three new questions aimed at capturing journalists' media environments more comprehensively. These questions addressed the distribution platforms journalists used, the media formats they produced, and the cultural backgrounds of the media organizations they worked for. In contrast, the previous survey, WJS2, included only a single question on the "type of medium," such as daily newspaper. The rationale for these additions is discussed in detail elsewhere (Thurman, 2025, pp. 19-20), but in essence, the new questions were designed to provide more precise information on the formats journalists produce in, the specific internet-based platforms they use for distribution, and, for the first time, the cultural context of the media institutions employing them.