(Un)stable sources, translation and news production

Target ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 440-453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto A. Valdeón
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Binary Opposition ◽  
News Production ◽  
Short Overview ◽  
Selection Processes

This article discusses the distinction stable versus unstable sources, which Hernández Guerrero has suggested in her book on news translation. It starts with a short overview of news translation as a subfield within the discipline of translation studies, emphasizing the role of translation in news production since the emergence of the journalistic profession. The next section discusses the concepts of ‘stable’ and ‘unstable’ sources, and moves on to introduce framing, a key concept in communication studies, defined as the central organizing idea that allows news consumers to make sense of events. The term will be related to the mechanisms that journalists resort to in order to produce source texts, which, in turn, can also affect the selection and de-selection processes undertaken by news producers when relying on articles published in other languages. The final sections will consider the translated economic columns of Paul Krugman, originally published in the New York Times and in Spanish by the daily El País, to reflect on the usefulness of the binary opposition stable versus unstable sources, and will show that, in some media, certain unstable texts can turn stable.

Data-Driven Editorial? Considerations for Working With Audience Metrics

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin Petre
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
News Production ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Editorial Practice

Drawing on Caitlin Petre’s ethnographic study of Chartbeat, Gawker Media and The New York Times, this chapter explores the role of metrics in contemporary news production and offers recommendations to newsrooms incorporating metrics into editorial practice.

BALANCE OF OPINION IN NEWSPAPERS THROUGH EDITORIAL AND OP-ED GENRES

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (105) ◽  
pp. 78-86
Author(s):  
EKATERINA A. NIKONOVA
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
White House ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

The article deals with the analysis of the balance of opinion in the newspaper, which is originally realized through editorial and op-ed genres. We analyzed 20 articles from “The Wall Street Journal” and “The New York Times” in the genres of editorial and op-ed about events in Afghanistan in August 2021, which were interpreted differently in mass media due to the role of the White House. The findings prove that in the context of new digital reality the op-ed has lost its original function of conveying alternative positions to the ones stated in the editorial; at the same time newspapers tend to advocate the positions shared by the political parties they have historically developed close relations with: “The Wall Street Journal” - with the Republican Party, “The New York Times” - the Democratic Party.

The Role of Religious Value in Political Judgment

1968 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 415-427
Author(s):  
Quentin L. Quade
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Religion And Politics ◽  
The United States ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Religious Interventions ◽  
Number Of Citations

In The issues of the New York Times from February, 1965, to November, 1967, religious leaders and groups are reported 185 times commenting on one political issue: Vietnam. If a comparable search were done on an inclusive list of political topics, such as civil rights, the number of citations would be greatly multiplied. Most of these statements are on substantive issues — the United States should do this, do that — rather than on the theoretical questions about religion's role vis à vis politics. Most of these religious interventions presume some connection between religion and politics, whether articulated or not. A similar examination of some leading religious journals, for example, Chrisianity and Crisis, Commonweal, Christian Century, America, produces similar results: in articles and editorials, such publications are deeply immersed in direct commentary on political problems of our time.

scholarly journals Big Data and Journalism: How American Journalism is Adopting the Use of Big Data

Novum Jus ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Julián Rodríguez ◽  
Andrew M. Clark
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Big Data ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Digital Format ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Depth Interviews

This research uses in-depth interviews with three data journalists from the Houston Chronicle and the New York Times in the United States to describe the role of data journalists, and to illustrate how and why they use big data in their stories. Data journalists possess a unique set of skills including being able to find data, gather data, and use that data to tell a compelling story in a written and visually coherent way. Results show that as newspapers move to a digital format the role of a data journalist is becoming more essential as is the importance of laws such as the Freedom of Information Act to enable journalists to request and use data to continue to inform the public and hold those in power accountable. 

scholarly journals Policy Considerations for Using Forests to Mitigate Carbon Dioxide Emissions

2001 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 241-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Brown ◽  
R. Neil Sampson ◽  
Bernhard Schlamadinger ◽  
John Kinsman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Emissions ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Forest Growth ◽  
Christian Science ◽  
Climate Change Negotiations ◽  
Christian Science Monitor ◽  
The Press ◽  
International Climate

A recent article in Nature, “Soil Fertility Limits Carbon Sequestration by Forest Ecosystems in a CO2-Enriched Atmosphere” by Oren and colleagues[1], has been widely reported on, and often misinterpreted, by the press. The article dampens enthusiasm for accelerated forest growth due to CO2 fertilization and puts in question the fringe theory that the world’s forests can provide an automatic mitigation feedback. We agree that these results increase our understanding of the global carbon cycle. At the same time, their relevance in the context of the international climate change negotiations is much more complicated than portrayed by newspapers such as the New York Times (“Role of Trees in Curbing Greenhouse Gases is Challenged”, May 24, 2001) and the Christian Science Monitor (“Trees No Savior for Global Warming”, May 25, 2001).

Ethnocultural Political Analysis: A New Approach to American Ethnic Studies

1971 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert P. Swierenga
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
Political Analysis ◽  
Heated Debate ◽  
American Society ◽  
Nathan Glazer

At the seventy-ninth annual meeting of the American Historical Association in 1964, a panel of scholars enlivened one of the sessions with a heated debate over the effects of ethnic assimilation in American culture. The topic of debate, ‘Beyond the Melting Pot: Irish and Jewish Separateness in American Society’, focused on a recent controversial study of ethnic mixture in New York City by Nathan Glazer and Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both sociologists. Glazer and Moynihan in their bookBeyond the Melting Pottraced the ‘role of ethnicity’ in the seaboard city. The melting pot ‘did not happen’, they concluded, ‘at least not in New York and,mutatis mutandis, in those parts of America which resemble New York’. This frontal assault on the concept of Americanization, long a cherished ideal in the United States, drew a sharp reaction from several panellists, especially William V. Shannon, editorial writer for dieNew York Timesand author ofThe American Irish, and Irving Greenberg, professor of history at Yeshiva University. Both Shannon and Greenberg insisted that Irishmen and Jews had indeed been assimilated in American society, either for better or for worse. At this point, the discussion degenerated into the traditional moralistic debate on the merits and demerits of assimilation. Reflecting the divergent views of their colleagues in the history profession, Shannon praised assimilation and Greenberg condemned it.

Translating stable sources in times of economic recession

Babel ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto A. Valdeón
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Nobel Prize Winner ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Translation Research ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Economic Texts ◽  
Translational Process

This paper examines the translation of economic texts authored by Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman, published originally by The New York Times in both their printed and Internet editions, and in Spanish by El País. It comprises a small parallel corpus of eighteen original columns and their equivalent Spanish versions, a total of 31,196 words. The article will consider the translation of stable sources (Hernández Guerrero 2009) within the narrative of the economic recession that started in early 2010s. It will use Nord’s functional model (2005) to analyse the texts. The objectives of the study are: (1) to establish whether translators opt for instrumental or documentary translation, and (2) to consider whether stable sources such as the opinion columns written by prominent figures can be regarded as closed sources that do not accept major shifts during the translational process. I will look at extratextual factors such as time, space and motivation, as well as intratextual features such as linking devices, thematic organization, markers of text composition and lexis. In the final section, I will attempt to provide an interpretation from the perspective of communication studies, which might inform translation research as well. For the discussion I will draw on Castells’ proposal for the study of media discourse and its connection with the political power (2009).

scholarly journals The changing role of the citizen in conflict reporting

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Babak Bahador ◽  
Serene Tng
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
The Times ◽  
Changing Role

New technologies have facilitated the rise of citizen journalism, which promises to dramatically change the role of citizens in conflict reporting from consumers to producers and victims and witnesses to framers and analysts. If this potential is realised, the implications of this new form of journalism are significant, as they stand to challenge the government’s traditional role as the dominant source and interpreter of conflicts. This study examines the degree to which the citizen’s role has changed in conflict reporting through a comparative analysis of the 2008 Mumbai attacks in the New York Times, New Zealand Herald, London Times and the Times of India. The study finds that the rise of event-driven conflict news reporting offers a limited window of opportunity for non-governmental sources, particularly at the beginning of the conflict, to influence media coverage.

scholarly journals Data journalism and democracy: how American mass media framed the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States using data visualization

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Iuliia Alieva
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Design Elements

The purpose of this study is to explore the role of data visualization in the media coverage of the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States by focusing on datavisualization projects from The New York Times and The Washington Post. The research is focused on how journalists implemented data-visualization techniques and how the theory of framing is connected with that process. A secondary purpose of the research is to collect opinions from journalists working in the field about how data visualization influenced coverage of the campaign and how future reporting can be improved. This study consists of two parts: textual/visual analysis of data visualization examples from coverage of 2016 U.S. presidential campaign and interviews with the journalists involved in infographics production. Visual analysis was used for analyzing various design elements such as type of graphics, colors, fonts and how they helped to frame issues during the campaign. Textual analysis was used to identify the main issues and frames that were covered and considered important for the audience. The interviews provided information about the professional experience of data journalists and editors and their opinions about the role of data visualization and the problems and limitations that they experienced while working with it.

scholarly journals DATA JOURNALISM IN THE COVID-19 PERIOD: A DESCRIPTIONAL REVIEW OF CORONAVIRUS NEWS

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
Duygu FURUNCU KUTLUHAN ◽  
Aslıhan ZİNDEREN
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
News Production ◽  
Visual Storytelling ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Multidisciplinary Cooperation ◽  
Data Journalism ◽  
Effective Visualization ◽  
The Guardian

This research focuses on the events of data journalism during Covid-19. Journalism is mainly carried out by data analysis in this period. In the context of the contextuality/relationality concept, data- driven stories and factually compiled knowledge serve an extremely important enlightenment role for the reader. The main aim of the study is to show how critical information is revealed and presented within the framework of the understanding of journalism by analyzing big data, and to show the value that the understanding of data journalism contributes to journalism in this context. For this purpose, sample news about the Covid-19 period produced by the data journalism process from the websites of the New York Times and The Guardian newspapers was selected for the analysis. Descriptive analysis method was used in the study whose conceptual framework was established through data journalism, news production processes in data journalism and visual storytelling. Data journalism, which involves multidisciplinary cooperation, has been evaluated in terms of both news production processes and visual storytelling. As a result of the study, it was observed that significant knowledge was brought to light by creating substantive relationships between the data, a transparent and accountable journalism approach was performed, and complicated quantitative data was presented in a clear and interesting form with effective visualization factors in this era, which is critical for society. The value of data journalism has been pointed out in this context, making the news efficient, understandable, relevant and verifiable on the basis of news production processes, and creating a new direction in today's understanding of journalism.

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