The Travelling Objectivity Norm

Maras, Steven; Nip, Joyce Y. M.

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2014.895500

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“…As a result, when it comes to filming or editing, the publisher or director can continue to focus on the quality of the shots taken rather than worrying about the publication's details. According to Maras (2013), the purpose of this script is to regulate the relationship between production workers and to examine the conceptual and practical components of the publishing. The core idea, action plan, creativity management, narrative, and work control are all included in this idea-centric blue print.…”

Section: Documentary Script Writing Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Journalism in Documentary Script Writing

Indra¹,

Yassin²,

Alsagoff³

et al. 2023

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The authoring of documentary scripts is frequently overlooked when judging a documentary's quality. This could be because the documentary script is regarded as merely a tool that has little impact on the final output of the film. Documentaries in Malaysia are considered as sluggish, with a "soft culture" approach to documentary production, despite the fact that the world of documentary production has evolved to a "dramatic entertainment" approach.Researchers propose a literary device-based writing style called as New Journalism as a possible option for documentary writers across the country. In comparison to traditional types of writing, this style combines factual and fictional writing to produce literature that is more creative, new, and alive. It is intended that by using a new type of journalism to write documentary scripts, scriptwriters will modify their approach to producing works, resulting in documentaries that are more skilful, competitive, and relevant to the demands of today's audience.

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Section: Documentary Script Writing Issuesmentioning

confidence: 99%

New Journalism in Documentary Script Writing

Indra¹,

Yassin²,

Alsagoff³

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“…Objectivity is referred to as a defining norm of modern journalism (Donsbach & Patterson, 1996;Patterson, 1998;Skovsgaard et al, 2012), and the ideal of objectivity holds that facts can be separated from values or opinion and that journalists can and should report on events in a neutral manner (Hackett, 1984;Reese, 1990). In Western news media, objectivity has been a cornerstone since the rise of the broadsheet press (Donsbach & Klett, 1993;Maras, 2013;Mindich, 1998;Schudson, 1978Schudson, , 2001Ward, 2015), and the norm emerged as the press became a professional and established societal institution (Blach-Ørsten, 2019;Ward, 2015).…”

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Between harm and sensationalism: Court reporters negotiating objectivity when reflecting on ethical dilemmas in the Submarine Murder Trial

Wittchen

2023

Nordicom Review

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The trial of amateur submarine builder Peter Madsen for the murder of the Swedish journalist Kim Wall was one of the most publicised trials in recent Danish history. Through in-depth interviews with ten prominent Danish reporters who covered the trial, this study examines how court reporters negotiate and struggle with ethical dilemmas related to objectivity as both an institutional ideal and an ethical rule under the Media Liability Act. I demonstrate how reporters negotiate and strategise to maintain objectivity in relation to facts, relevance, the telling of both sides, and the avoidance of prejudging. I further highlight the dispute between fact-based reporters and a minor group endorsing interpretive and narrative reporting and advocating for a more pragmatic approach to objectivity. A core finding is how technological advancements and massive public interest have paved the way for new ethical practices, referred to here as “strategic ritual 2.0”.

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“…They consciously steered away from political subjects and stayed within the reportorial boundaries that were drawn by their government patrons and advertising clients. A number of journalists and news scholars, inspired in part by the rise of this industry, began to theorize the newspaper as a publication that should be commercially rather than politically funded and run by professional news writers rather than political activists (Maras and Nip 2015;Volz and Lee 2009a). Drawing on American news and journalism theories, these writers envisioned a news media that engaged and empowered China's citizens not by converting them to the cause of one or another political movement, but by equipping them to understand and discuss the problems that China was facing in a neutral and nonpartisan manner.…”

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The Currency of Truth

Chua¹

2023

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Press's open access publishing program is made possible thanks to additional funding from the University of Michigan Office of the Provost and the generous support of contributing libraries. ContentsAcknowledgments vii Preface ix chapter 1. Introduction 1 chapter 2. A Contested Medium 28 chapter 3. From Propaganda to Publicness 46 chapter 4. An Ethic of Efficacy 70 for. Rather than treating the news in any contemporary context as an extension of the political and ideological systems that are associated with it, it is necessary to ask how the news' truth-claims are being shaped by the culturally particular ideas and sensibilities that orient its producers, distributors, and consumers to their worlds. At a time of intensifying geopolitical tensions, the hope of this book is thus to contribute to more thoughtful and nuanced ways of engaging with news both in China and beyond. chapter 1 the curreNcy of truth of you because they think that you're out to make trouble for them. And news readers don't trust you, because they think that you only say what the leaders want you to. Why should readers trust you, really? They know that you write news for your own sake and not out of concern for them. This is your rice bowl, after all. You may not be happy about the leaders' demands, but you're still going to write as you're told to because you cannot afford not to.The close involvement of Party officials and the top-down control that Zheng Wen's comments allude to are well-known features of the news media in China, where the ruling Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) large and powerful Publicity Department (xuanchuanbu) 3 systematically stipulates what the country's newspapers can and cannot report. This arrangement dates back to the founding of the People's Republic in 1949, when the newly established CCP government, with its charismatic chairman Mao Zedong at its helm, brought the nation's printing presses under its control and designated them the political and ideological mouthpiece, or "throat and tongue of the Party." While China's post-Mao marketization policies later broadened the range of topics that newspapers were permitted to cover and created more room for newsmakers to circumvent and even "push back" (Hassid 2016; Repnikova 2017) against the Party's press restrictions, the conditions that journalists work under today remain highly restrictive. Although there are now a large number of entirely market-oriented non-Party newspapers, all news outlets are to some degree still governed by "the Party principle," which demands that they accept the Party's guiding ideology as their own; publicize the Party's programs, policies, and directives; and abide by the Party's organizational principles and press commands (Y. Zhao 1998, 19). Compared to his predecessors, China's current president, Xi Jinping, has enforced this principle with renewed vigor. He has emphasized that the media should serve as "propaganda fronts" of the Party (Associated Press 2016); created new administrative offices whose mandate is to tighten the censorshi...

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The Travelling Objectivity Norm

Cited by 17 publications

References 18 publications

New Journalism in Documentary Script Writing

New Journalism in Documentary Script Writing

Between harm and sensationalism: Court reporters negotiating objectivity when reflecting on ethical dilemmas in the Submarine Murder Trial

The Currency of Truth

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