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Making News

Carah and Louw Social Media

Chunho Yim

12/2/2020

There are various factors that have led in the changes in creating of content. Carah, & Louw (2015, p.242) suggested that journalists who had expertise in certain areas had to be employed in order for the companies to build mas audiences. This is part of the routines in news making as these journalists would produce content in a systematic fashion. Journalists work on a set of formulas that allows them to ask the same questions while looking for the same things. This is taught to all the journalists as the routine helps in determining what is news and what cannot qualify as news. These formulas and frames include WWWWWWH (who’ does ‘what’ and ‘when’, ‘where’, ‘why’ and ‘how), and the inverted pyramid. This form the routines used in the production of news.

Every new staff is introduced into the procedures of the newsroom. These procedures are based on the culture of the organization with some of them standardized procedures like writing, collecting and submitting. The newsroom is also subject to bureaucracy and the ranking pecking order that characterizes most organizations. There are power relationships in the newsroom that are characterized by rank chains of command and bureaucratic procedures. This makes it easy for editing of the original content.

Data has had an impact in journalism like in other industries. In journalism data has become a source of information that is used by journalists to tell stories. Journalists are able to access, assemble and organize large sets of data in order to tell the story. This access to large data has changed journalism as they are able to louden their claims of legitimacy and truth by presenting the data. Smartphones has also changed journalism as ordinary people with smartphones are also participating in the process of news making. This can be considered first-hand account provided by eye witness which is increasing the credibility of the news.

Reference

Carah, N. & Louw, E. (2015). Making news. Media and society: production, content and participation. Sage publications, Ltd. (pp.239-272)