News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance

Since competitors are all using the same sources, the resulting homogenization is almost inevitable. The importance of this analysis goes beyond its impact on workplace practices-as Boczkowski argues, this new reality ''creates a fertile terrain for a media landscape marked by the dominance of generic content shared across many outlets, a narrowing of the resulting news agenda, and the concentration of power to set this agenda among a smaller number of players than before'' (p. 180).