Towards a linguistics of news production

Catenaccio, Paola; Cotter, Colleen; Smedt, Mark De; Garzone, Giuliana Elena; Jacobs, Geert; Macgilchrist, Felicitas; Lams, Lutgard; Perrin, Daniel; Richardson, John; Hout, Tom Van; Praet, Ellen Van

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.022

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“…These newsroom meetings provide a forum for introducing, reviewing, negotiating, selecting, following up on and assigning ideas for news stories for the next day's paper (Clayman and Reisner, 1998;Cotter, 2010;Van Hout and Jacobs, 2008). Thus, the newsroom meeting is a setting for decision-making leading to inclusion and exclusion of ideas for new news stories and thereby it performs a gate-keeping function (Golding and Elliott, 1979).…”

Section: Introduction: Newsroom Meetings As Loci For Cultural (Re)promentioning

confidence: 99%

“…As a consequence, these meetings are primary settings for the daily negotiation and reinforcement of professional values (Cotter, 2010) as these recurrent speech events play a key role in the news process as important loci for learning about the craft because of the constant reinforcement of competent practice which takes place here. As such, the newsroom meetings are important sites for cultural production and reproduction supporting the construction of the craft ethos (Cotter, 2010). Therefore, these meetings are essential for the enactment of expertise (Carr, 2010;Goodwin, 1994;Matoesian, 2008), for displaying competence (Van Hout and Van Praet, 2011), and for the building and maintenance of professional vision (Goodwin, 1994).…”

Section: Introduction: Newsroom Meetings As Loci For Cultural (Re)promentioning

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Elimination of Ideas and Professional Socialisation

Gravengaard¹,

Rimestad²

2012

Journalism Practice

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This article investigates and interprets social and cultural production and reproduction as we turn our attention to an important part of routinised practice in the newsroom: the early newsroom meetings. These meetings are essential sites for the building of the craft ethos and professional vision. Our aim is to study how this building of expertise takes place at meetings with a particular focus on the decision-making process concerning ideas for new news stories. In order to do this, we perform linguistic analysis of news production practices, as we investigate how the journalists' ideas for potential news stories are eliminated by the editor at the daily newsroom meetings. The elimination of ideas for news stories are not just eliminations; they are also corrections of culturally undesirable behaviour producing and reproducing the proper perception of an important object of knowledge*what constitutes ''a good news story''*in this community of practice.

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Section: Introduction: Newsroom Meetings As Loci For Cultural (Re)promentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introduction: Newsroom Meetings As Loci For Cultural (Re)promentioning

confidence: 99%

Elimination of Ideas and Professional Socialisation

Gravengaard¹,

Rimestad²

2012

Journalism Practice

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“…Catenaccio et al (2011) for example, argue for a linguistic approach to the study of news production saying that: 'a great deal of discourse-analytical research on the news has disregarded the production process' (Catenaccio et al, 2011(Catenaccio et al, :1846. This approach highlights the multidirectional production process and how discursive practice as well as cultural and social context brings news into being.…”

Section: Journalism As a Discursive Practicementioning

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“…This approach highlights the multidirectional production process and how discursive practice as well as cultural and social context brings news into being. Catenaccio et al see the value added of a linguistic approach at the conjunction of 'production' and articulation' of news discourse' (Catenaccio et al, 2011(Catenaccio et al, :1847. Using practice based ethnographic work combined with extended interviews and 'careful, close, linguistically sensitive micro-analysis and rich observation of the way news values are articulated in the actual writing and speaking processes and vice versa' can bring news production into sharper focus (Catenaccio et al, 2011(Catenaccio et al, :1847.…”

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Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists

Reardon

2017

Discourse & Communication

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Journalists are frequently used as a source of information for those studying news production and practice and as a means of describing the 'real' world of news. However, these conversations between researcher and journalist have often largely been treated as a transfer of neutral, transparent information about news practice rather than a discursive practice in itself. Discourse analysis has been extensively applied to the output of news yet is underdeveloped in the area of production studies. This paper argues that that a more discursive approach to news production studies yields a more nuanced understanding of journalistic culture and practice. This is illustrated by using the tools of discursive social psychology to analysis interviews with 23 broadcast journalists about the nature of news.The analysis helps with the identification of the use of empiricist discourse to construct a 'natural' journalism and to justify certain constructions of journalistic practice.

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“…They also frequently introduce quotes from sources (spoken or written), produced in other contexts (Catenaccio et al 2011;Smirnova 2012;White 1998). Such embedding (Bell 1991) may involve a subtle and complex staging of voices and positions through various forms of attributed and unattributed reported speech in the form of whole passages or just fragments in the shape of isolated words or word groups.…”

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A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate

Dahl

Fløttum

2014

Text &Amp; Talk

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Abstract:The public debate on the highly contested issue of climate change is characterized by a multitude of voices as well as position taking by the social actors involved. Studies involving the climate issue have emanated from many fields, notably media science. To date, few linguistics-based studies on climaterelated newspaper texts have been undertaken. This paper presents a theoretical framework -the Scandinavian theory of linguistic polyphony -which we argue is particularly well suited to analyze contested issues. To demonstrate how the theory can be operationalized, we present a case study involving four texts from The Guardian. Linguistic polyphony rests on the assumption that all texts are multivoiced. The case study focuses on the interaction of the journalist's voice and external voices, and considers the extent to which implicit (hidden) voices are present in the analyzed texts. The analysis reveals a complex interaction of different voices, integrated in the journalist's own argumentation and positioning.

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Towards a linguistics of news production

Cited by 101 publications

References 23 publications

Elimination of Ideas and Professional Socialisation

Elimination of Ideas and Professional Socialisation

Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists

A linguistic framework for studying voices and positions in the climate debate

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