ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on how several social and technological evolutions have influenced traditional gatekeeping routines by stressing one of its main aspects: source selection. It also focuses on the most recent wave of survey results among all professional Belgian journalists. Journalists have also had to cope with a shift in media expertise, meaning that the traditional focus on print or broadcast news is no longer viable, and many journalists now work in cross-media newsrooms, providing content for multiple platforms. The chapter concludes that the results of this specific research are in line with international research on gatekeeping and sourcing practices in newsrooms: These routines are quite stable over a longer period of time. Civil society sources seems that journalists are still reluctant to incorporate alternative sources. Civil society actors increasingly communicate, publish, and spread information on the internet because it is a global and cheap technology that is accessible to large groups.
