Daily newspaper editors' audience construction routines: A case study

A History of the Present: The Impact of Newspapers' Constructions of Maltreatment in an Irish Nursing Home

“…Such editorials may be engendered in issues of forecasting particular readership consumption and competition with other media outlets (Sumpter, 2000) as well as speaking the language of the common man (Wasserman, 2008). In all cases, credible authorities were interwoven into the textual presentation to support the thrust of the narratives.…”

News, Nationalism, and the Imagined Community

“…This paper is part descriptive case study*highlighting the production aspect of bilingual journalism*and part critical analysis, examining the motivations underlying the methods through the prism of Anderson's ''imagined community'' (1983). My research began with semistructured interviews and nonparticipant observation*methods with demonstrated effectiveness for exploratory studies in media and culture (Stout, 2004) and journalistic behavior (Sumpter, 2000). Such methods are in keeping with sound qualitative research (Denzin and Lincoln, 2005).…”

Negotiating Professional News Judgment and “Clicks”

“…Such knowledge was used to inform news coverage, graphic design and what news stories were run on the front page and was thought to influence entertainment news, the business section and sports rather than the hard news (Beam 1995). On the other hand, there is research suggesting that audience input in any form appears to have been limited, as news production was rather guided by the internal production logic and the fact that journalists have peers and supervisors in mind when writing news stories (Gieber 1999;Schlesinger 1978;Sumpter 2000).…”