Making newsworthy news: The integral role of creativity and verification in the human information behavior that drives news story creation
通过14次半结构化访谈，研究了记者在紧迫截稿压力下如何通过发现、收集、组织、质疑、情境化和发布六种行为，将创造性与验证融入新闻故事创作，对设计支持记者工作的数字工具有参考价值。
Abstract Creativity and verification are intrinsic to high‐quality journalism, but their role is often poorly visible in news story creation. Journalists face relentless commercial pressures that threaten to compromise story quality, in a digital era where their ethical obligation not to mislead the public has never been more important. It is therefore crucial to investigate how journalists can be supported to produce stories that are original, impactful, and factually accurate, under tight deadlines. We present findings from 14 semistructured interviews, where we asked journalists to discuss the creation of a recent news story to understand the process and associated human information behavior (HIB). Six overarching behaviors were identified: discovering , collecting , organizing , interrogating , contextualizing , and publishing . Creativity and verification were embedded throughout news story creation and integral to journalists' HIB, highlighting their ubiquity. They often manifested at a micro level; in small‐scale but vital activities that drove and facilitated story creation. Their ubiquitous role highlights the importance of creativity and verification support being woven into functionality that facilitates information acquisition and use in digital information tools for journalists.