News and Journalism in the UK

McNair, Brian

doi:10.4324/9780203596944

Cited by 62 publications

(46 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Gatekeeping and the rush of the new Since White (1950) described the way in which news stories must be negotiated through institutional gatekeepers and meet a particular set of criteria (ideological slant, perceived political or cultural importance, perceived interest to target readership and so forth) to warrant inclusion, his 'gatekeeper' metaphor has remained an important paradigm in the sociology of hard news production (Tunstall 1971;Schlesinger 1978;McNair 1999). The flows of 'raw' information are different in popular arts criticism from the flows in hard news journalism and, as such, this conceptual model needs to be rethought.…”

Section: Close Collaboration or Complete Control?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict and collaboration

Forde

2004

POMH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article considers the organizational, socio-professional and cultural links between press officers (PRs) and music journalists working in the UK music industry and music press in the late 1990s. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and first-hand interviews, the article analyses how these industry professionals co-existed as ‘cultural intermediaries’ and were required to negotiate a complex set of institutional and personal relationships. As both Bourdieu (1986; 1993) and Negus (1996) have argued, the socio-professional worlds of cultural intermediaries are tightly interconnected and heavily self-referential. This article argues that within the music industry and music press there was a clear, and indeed intentional, blurring of the boundaries between the formal and the informal in how these two organizationally distinct professions worked and socialized together. The occupational dynamics of these two groups became inscribed within a complex cultural and professional exchange that operated and was maintained simultaneously on a formal and an informal level.

show abstract

Section: Close Collaboration or Complete Control?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Conflict and collaboration

Forde

2004

POMH

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Most information circulating is doing so precisely because those responsible for it want people to know about it. This serves the function of alerting the public to information that they need to know and it is part of the mix of all news (McNair, 2009).…”

Section: Vanilla Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Transparency and the New Ethics of Journalism

Phillips¹

2010

Journalism Practice

109

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Professional journalists rate investigating, fact checking, and standards of accuracy high among the qualities that set them apart from amateur journalists and bloggers. This paper addresses the spread and the implications of news ''cannibalisation'' (taking material from other news organisations, without attribution). It asks how the loss of exclusivity is impacting on practices of reporting and on standards of ''accuracy'' and ''sincerity'' and suggests that establishing new standards of transparency could help protect professional reporting in the new, networked era, as well as improving ethical standards in journalism.

show abstract

“…Thus, after a thorough review of the available evidence of media effects, McNair (2003, p.26) came to the rather fatalistic conclusion that ‘journalism matters because we believe it to do so’. Indeed, media studies have moved on from analysing the relationships between the media as a social institution and other social institutions and media effects to an understanding of all social life including the public sphere as ‘mediated’ (Perrin and Vaisey 2008, p.805; Livingstone 2009).…”

Section: The Mediation Of ‘Criminal’ Communicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Importance of Telling a Good Story: An Experiment in Public Criminology

Feilzer

2009

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article explores the potential role for criminologists in contributing to the public debate on crime and criminal justice. Do reasoned academic contributions based on objective evaluation of relevant empirical evidence and 'facts' about crime and criminal justice have the potential to influence the public sphere dominated by competing communication strategies, media, and political discourses on crime? The author reflects on findings from research on a subject which can be broadly described as an experiment in public criminology. The author's research found that factual information on crime and criminal justice presented through a mainstream media outlet was largely ignored and did not have the expected and desired effect on members of the public.

show abstract

News and Journalism in the UK

Cited by 62 publications

References 0 publications

Conflict and collaboration

Conflict and collaboration

Transparency and the New Ethics of Journalism

The Importance of Telling a Good Story: An Experiment in Public Criminology

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About