The process by which editors, producers and other media personnel decide which information reaches the public, filtering countless potential stories down to the limited number that actually appear. Social psychologist Kurt Lewin proposed the gatekeeper model in 1943, and journalism scholar David Manning White applied it directly to news selection in 1950 by studying a single wire editor's reasons for rejecting stories.
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Concept Domain Formulated Year1943 is Lewin's original gatekeeper model; David Manning White applied it directly to news selection in 1950. Domain
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1. Wikipedia
Wikimedia FoundationOrigins section, quoting Kurt Lewin, 1943
food does not move by its own impetus. Entering or not entering a channel and moving from one section of a channel to another is affected by a 'gatekeeper'
Overview section, quoting Shoemaker and Vos
process of culling and crafting countless bits of information into the limited number of messages that reach people every day
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