• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.8
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• pp.347-365
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• 2012

This study was carried out to enlighten on the factors by which newspaper headlines are determined and to empirically explore how news influence variables, editor's role orientation and professionalism have impact on deciding headlines. It turned out from the survey of 345 journalists working in the editorial departments of 17 major national daily and economic newspapers that 7 determinant factors have impact on editors deciding headlines: creativity, standardized expression, fairness, consideration for a readers, reflection of company policy, summarization and intriguer. In addition, the determinant factors of headlines were analyzed to have correlation with news influence variables such as the government-sponsors, readers and colleagues, and company policy and the management. In the awareness of role, also, it was shown that the editors who considered social integration as important place weighted on the reflection of company policy, fairness and creativity; those editors who placed power monitoring on priority took fairness and creativity seriously; and the editors who believed that delivering information was important thought of fairness, consideration for a readers and summarization as important. In addition, the organization-oriented editors turned out compliant to a system, positive on the governmental policies and sought for social stability; those editors who put a premium on a sense of objective balance and neutrality showed a strong aspect of a professional in social reform, check against government and the social governance by the privileged.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.57
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• pp.7-32
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the perverted labors of online newspapers' editors in Korea. Online newspaper editors' works were be influenced directly and indirectly by the printed newspaper, the parent company of online newspaper. Their labor conditions were poorer than online newspaper editors'. And online newspapers' editors didn't have status as professionals. They set a premium on Internet traffics on their works. For online newspaper editors' normal labor conditions, the most practical measure was to normalize the editorial system of online newspapers. How to raise the status of online newspaper editors was to secure the online newspapers' editorial right. And to conclude, to improve the quality of online journalism in Korea, the most urgent issue is to improve online newspaper editors' professionalism.