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Chunho Yim

2020/11/17

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Carah and Louw: Making News

Making News

The emergence of professional journalism

New journalism practices were designed and developed by Joseph Pulitzer and Stead from the United States and the United Kingdom, respectively. The purpose of the practice was to draw attention to many possible audiences for sale to advertisers (Smith, 1979). The innovative practices sites were Pall Mall Gazette in London for Stead and New York World for Pulitzer. The emergence of new practices needed content that can be attractive to many audiences rather than specializing in a group of opinion makers. Journalists specialized in a particular topic area employed to generate content in a routine and systemic fashion (Audley, 1983).

The site of news making

Are journalists influential, or are they autonomous? News-making sites are not autonomous of organizational leadership pressure. But such pressures usually are not the result of authoritarian control to take control of the sites. An editor in a commercial medium has to produce and package the resources to attract the audience that advertisers are interested in.

Routinizing News Making

Journalists try to understand themselves, their work, and discourse about the audience. It is possible to point out a general Anglo-pattern of news-making practices and newsroom structures. This Anglo-pattern was implemented in the new journalism of nineteenth-century newspapers initiated by Pulitzer, Stead, and Northcliffe and eventually spread to radio, television, and online newsrooms (Mark Deuze, 2005).

News is a window on the world.

News is said to be a window on the world because journalists, through their work practices, create a window opening through the wall, creating one portion of reality available through the window opening. The window's position is the result of whatever set of practices, work routines, and discourses journalists have been convinced into accepting the way things are done (Tuchman, 1978).

Contacts

Contacts are people that journalists frequently ask when looking for more information. News is successfully made through a collaboration between journalists and the pool of contacts. Journalists and contacts benefit from each other because contacts provide information to journalists, and journalists develop their profiles (Tuchman, 1978).

Professional journalists' content has to serve the commercial and political shares of the organization that hire them. Journalists are the critical connector of consistent data and content flow across the networks of the information society.

Reference

Carah, N. & Louw, E. (2015). Making news.  In N. Carah & E. Louw, Media and society: production, content, and participation. Sage publications, Ltd. (pp.124-145)