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News is not made for me: A novel scale for measuring audience alienation from news and its outcomes

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Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism

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Abstract

Journalism, Volume 27, Issue 8, Page 2274-2291, August 2026.
In this paper, we develop the “News is Not Made for Me” scale for measuring audience alienation from news. Drawing on literature highlighting the importance of recognition, learning, and understanding in journalism, we developed this eight-item scale by ...