Exemplars are central in news reporting. However, extreme negative exemplars can bias citizens’ factual perceptions and attributions of political responsibility. Nonetheless, our knowledge of the factors shaping journalistic preferences for including exemplars in news stories is limited. We investigate the extent to which educational socialization, psychological biases, and editorial policy shape journalistic preferences for extreme negative exemplars. We field large-scale survey experiments to a population sample of journalism students, a nationally representative sample of citizens, and a representative sample of “young people” and obtain evaluations of news value, newsworthiness, and behavioral measures of the actual write-up of news articles. We find significant support for the role of editorial policy and limited support for the role of educational socialization and psychological biases. In a time where economic pressures and the proliferation of digital media potentially lead editors to prioritize clickbait, these findings suggest that structural biases in news coverage may be aggravated.

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新闻界对极端范例的偏好：教育社会化、心理偏见，还是编辑政策？

榜样是新闻报道的核心。然而，极端的负面范例可能会影响公民的事实认知和政治责任归属。尽管如此，我们对影响新闻报道中纳入范例的偏好因素的了解仍然有限。我们调查了教育社会化、心理偏见和编辑政策在多大程度上影响了新闻界对极端负面范例的偏好。我们对新闻专业学生群体样本、具有全国代表性的公民样本和具有代表性的“年轻人”样本进行了大规模的调查实验，并获得了对新闻价值、新闻价值和实际报道的行为测量的评估。新闻文章。我们发现对编辑政策的作用的支持很大，而对教育社会化和心理偏见的作用的支持有限。在经济压力和数字媒体的扩散可能导致编辑优先考虑点击诱饵的时代，这些发现表明新闻报道中的结构性偏见可能会加剧。