Negotiating the boundaries of news reporting: Journalists’ strategies to access and report political information in China

Kuang, Xianwen

doi:10.7146/mediekultur.v33i62.22508

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“…Secondly, the researcher can use pre-produced etic data, on the one hand, to verify that the interviewee’s account is accurate (e.g. Coddington, 2012; Kuang, 2017), or that the account matches actual work practices (e.g. Alkaff and McLellan, 2017; Coddington, 2012; Hellman and Jaakkola, 2011; Hermans et al, 2014; Kuang, 2017; Lavie and Lehman-Wilzig, 2003).…”

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Etic and emic data production methods in the study of journalistic work practices: A systematic literature review

Haapanen

Manninen

2021

Journalism

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This methodological paper discusses the application of etic and emic perspectives in producing data sets for the study of journalistic praxis. The concepts refer to the researcher-analyst’s and the practitioner-informant’s viewpoints, respectively, and that being the case, they have inherent weaknesses if used independently. We argue that these shortcomings can be mitigated through an integrated application of the concepts and by seeing the two perspectives as complementary to each other. Combining etic and emic perspectives will allow for a more comprehensive understanding of complex yet routinized real-life behaviour such as journalistic work. Following the appraisal of the etic-emic combination methodology, we present the results of a systematic literature review. We explore the application of this methodology in the study of journalistic work, as recounted in international journal articles published between 2000 and 2017. After keyword searches into several databases and a manual review of 3018 items, a corpus of 228 relevant articles was analysed. Our results demonstrate the studies’ disproportionate emphasis on the earliest phases of the journalistic process, that is, topic discovery, topic selection, point of view selection and sourcing, and the relative scarcity of studies applying a fully integrated etic-emic-combination methodology. We also report on, for example, the types of research material used and the media studied. We conclude with recommendations for expanding and diversifying the use of etic-emic-combination methodology in journalism studies to give us a more balanced understanding of the field.

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Section: Discussion: Methodological Descriptions Must Be Improvedmentioning

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Etic and emic data production methods in the study of journalistic work practices: A systematic literature review

Haapanen

Manninen

2021

Journalism

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“…In non-sensitive periods, the propaganda departments will send through notice in either form of reporting guidance or ban on a case-by-case basis to suppress the rapid dissemination of such newly emerging issues (Kuang, 2017). And for the long-standing taboo issues, for example, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Taiwan issues, guidance on the reporting is deemed repeated in the routine trainings and meetings of the news organizations by editors-in-chief who are usually appointed by the propaganda department (Jia, 2002).…”

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“…It is also unclear whether different types of news organizations in China would use similar news frames or not in the reporting of international news, despite the fact that they are all directed to use the news reports from state news agencies. This is because non-party newspapers, which are more responsive to the market/audience than its more compliant and self-censored party counterpart (Zhao, 2000), may negotiate the reporting boundaries (Kuang, 2017) for international news and want to adopt just a part instead of the entire piece of the agencies’ reports.…”

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Framing international news in China: An analysis of trans-edited news in Chinese newspapers

Kuang

Wang

2020

Global Media and China

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This research explores the variations between Chinese party and non-party newspapers in the framing of trans-edited international news. Existing studies on the framing of Chinese domestic news show that the variations depend on the sensitivity of news, which invokes government control. However, it is not clear how strictly the government would control international news and whether party and non-party news organizations would show similarities or variations in the framing of it. To address these issues, we conducted a comparative quantitative content analysis of 806 pieces of trans-edited international news from one party newspaper and one non-party newspaper. The findings show that the party and non-party newspapers show similarity on the use of three frames but small variations on the other four. This implies a strong control of the Chinese government on the reporting of international news. By comparison, the government control has stronger effects on the party newspaper than on its non-party counterpart.

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“…Nevertheless, journalists from nonparty news organizations often talk about "playing with the edge 1 " of the propaganda notice, indicating that there is some space to avoid obeying the propaganda notice entirely (Hao, 2004). Many studies, for example, Kuang (2017), Tong (2007), and Zhao (2000), indeed find that the Chinese journalists have been developing strategies or tactics to reduce control from the propaganda authority. Compliance with propaganda notices is thus another aspect to be studied when comparing the news selection autonomy of Chinese news organizations.…”

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Self-Caging or Playing With the Edge? News Selection Autonomy in Authoritarian China

Kuang

2020

SAGE Open

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This article studies how the political affiliation and administrative rank of news organizations in a nondemocratic setting affect news selection autonomy. While existing studies have found that further commercialization contributes to more news selection autonomy, the extent to which political affiliation and administrative rank of news media explain autonomy remains unknown. Eight Chinese news organizations of varying political affiliations and administrative ranks were thus selected to compare their news and frame selection strategies. The findings reveal that political affiliation largely explains news selection autonomy: Party-affiliated outlets generally have lower news selection autonomy than nonparty outlets. Administrative rank has some effect on news selection autonomy in the highly competitive media markets, where news organizations with a lower administrative ranking must play more with propaganda control to compete with their higher ranking counterparts.

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Negotiating the boundaries of news reporting: Journalists’ strategies to access and report political information in China

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Cited by 7 publications

References 9 publications

Etic and emic data production methods in the study of journalistic work practices: A systematic literature review

Etic and emic data production methods in the study of journalistic work practices: A systematic literature review

Framing international news in China: An analysis of trans-edited news in Chinese newspapers

Self-Caging or Playing With the Edge? News Selection Autonomy in Authoritarian China

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