The News Conference: How Daily Newspaper Editors Construct the Front Page

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 971-986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann E. Reisner
Keyword(s):  
Front Page ◽  
Conversational Analysis ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
News Values ◽  
Strong Trend ◽  
Newspaper Editors

Conversational analysis of language used (and recorded) during 64 different news conferences reveals patterns that editors use in arguing over what stories should appear on the front page. Editors' routinely signal front page newsworthiness by elaborating/defending their choices and work hard to defend the newsworthiness of their choices. Traditional news values are part of the strategy that editors use, but editors also find ways to obscure the role their own ideology may play in their own news selections. One strong trend is that stories are more likely to be chosen for the front page — with little argument — if they are part of a recent ongoing story. News themes, in other words, like individuals, have history.

Changes in News Use on the Front Pages of the American Daily Newspaper. 1986–1993

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 826-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet A. Bridges ◽  
Lamar W. Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Front Page ◽  
Local News ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
News Selection ◽  
Newspaper Writing ◽  
News Use

This replication of a 1986 study of front-page newspaper content indicates that although less front-page material is devoted to five of seven news attributes, the change has been limited. Overall reflection of attributes such as proximity, timeliness, prominence, impact, magnitude, conflict, and oddity in 1993 was similar to that of 1986. However, in news profiles of front pages, while hard news remained the dominant characterizing factor, newspapers following an interpreternews pattern focused less on local news, despite trends toward reader-friendly newspaper writing and news selection.

Chain Ownership, Organizational Size, and Editorial Role Perceptions

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 863-873 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roya Akhavan-Majid ◽  
Timothy Boudreau
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Size ◽  
Role Perceptions ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examined the relationship between chain ownership and editorial role perceptions to illuminate the impact of chain ownership on content. Based on 258 questionnaires returned by a nation-wide sample of daily newspaper editors, the study found the editors of chain-owned newspapers to be more likely than their independent counterparts to subscribe to activist role perceptions. The tendency toward activist values increased as the size of the chain increased. Further, in general, editors of larger news organizations tended to subscribe to activist values more than did editors in smaller organizations.

PENERAPAN REKA BENTUK PADA HALAMAN MUKA SURAT KABAR

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-54
Author(s):  
Abdul Kholik
Keyword(s):  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Audience Analysis ◽  
Main Page ◽  
Visual Journalism ◽  
Functional Layout ◽  
Hierarchy Of Influence

ABSTRACT Every newspaper has its own characteristics on the visual aspect or design of newspaper. This is evident from the differences in each media appearance of dimension (make-up) and layout on the main page newspaper. The characteristics of design certainly are based on different forms of media, readers segmentation, and content of message presented. The purpose of this research is to analyze the policy of Inilah Koran Daily Newspaper and Pikiran Rakyat Daily Newspaper in applying design on front page of a newspaper. The rationale of this research comes from The Hierarchy of Influence Theory by Pamela J Shoemaker and Stephen D Reese. The method used in this research was a descriptive-comparative with qualitative approach. The result obtained from this research is the application of design policy on front page Inilah Koran newspaper uses the functional layout format and oriented visual journalism, while design policy implementation on front page Pikiran Rakyat newspaper uses layout combination and influenced by the results of the audience analysis performed routinely. Keywords: Design, Newspapers, Hierarchy of Influence Theory, Comparative   ABSTRAK Setiap surat kabar memiliki karakteristik tersendiri pada aspek visual atau desain surat kabar. Ini terlihat dari perbedaan dimensinya masing-masing media yaitu tampilan (make-up) dan tata letak di halaman utama koran. Karakteristik desain tentu didasarkan pada berbagai bentuk media, segmentasi pembaca, dan konten pesan yang disajikan. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menganalisis kebijakan Surat Kabar Harian Inilah Koran dan Surat Kabar Harian Pikiran Rakyat dalam menerapkan desain di halaman depan sebuah surat kabar. Rasional dari penelitian ini berasal dari The Hierarchy of Influence Theory oleh Pamela J Shoemaker dan Stephen D Reese. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah deskriptif-komparatif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Hasil yang diperoleh dari penelitian ini adalah penerapan kebijakan desain pada halaman depan koran Koran Berikut ini menggunakan format layout fungsional dan jurnalisme visual yang berorientasi, sedangkan implementasi kebijakan desain pada halaman depan koran Pikiran Rakyat menggunakan kombinasi layout dan dipengaruhi oleh hasil analisis audiens. dilakukan secara rutin. Kata kunci: Desain, Surat Kabar, Teori Hierarki Pengaruh, Komparatif

Democracy's Guardians: Hollywood's Portrait of Reporters, 1930–1945

1991 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-838 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Vaughn ◽  
Bruce Evensen
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Front Page ◽  
World War ◽  
System A ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
Production Code ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
American Society ◽  
Striking Contrast

Reporters in films of the early 1930s were often portrayed as drunks or as less than glamorous, as evidenced by the 1930 film “The Front Page.” By the end of the decade, pressure from the American Newspaper Publishers Association, American Society of Newspaper Editors, and other professional organizations, plus film-makers' need for good press, caused a change in the way reporters appeared, as evidenced by “His Girl Friday,” the 1940 remake of “The Front Page.” World War II films often portrayed reporters as searchers for truth in a free democratic system, a striking contrast to fascist control of information abroad. This study is based on the recently opened files of the Production Code Administration plus the viewing of 35 key films of the period.

Testing for the human capital value of daily newspaper journalists in the era of newsroom downsizing

2020 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-416
Author(s):  
Brian L. Massey
Keyword(s):  
Human Capital ◽  
National Survey ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Know How ◽  
Capital Assets ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Capital Value

This study tested the contrarian proposition that market-driven newspapers value rank-and-file newsworkers as human capital assets. Data from a national survey of U.S. daily newspaper editors partially support the proposition. Newspapers see positive value in the know-how and abilities of their newsworkers, but they do not see enough of it to invest in training and rewards for them.

On indefinite subjects of pivot verbs in Malay

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiroki Nomoto
Keyword(s):  
Word Order ◽  
Front Page ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Subordinate Clauses ◽  
Proposed Model ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Adverbial Clauses

Indefinite subjects of so-called pivot verbs in Malay can appear on either side of the verb. This paper discusses the following two tendencies concerning their behaviour: (i) the longer the subject is, the more likely it is to occur after the verb; (ii) in adverbial clauses the preferred word order is VS rather than SV. Both of these points are supported by quantitative evidence from a corpus of front-page articles of the daily newspaper Utusan Malaysia. The paper also proposes an explanation for these tendencies by using the functional notion of ‘topic’ and the mechanism of competition. Specifically, tendencies (i) and (ii) above are claimed to result from the competition between the topicality and heaviness of the subject NP, and from the Constraint on ‘Topic-over-Topic’ Configuration (COTC) respectively. The proposed model with competition and COTC is applicable to other phenomena in Malay (apparent violations of the Definiteness Restriction) and other languages (restricted occurrence of the topic marker in some subordinate clauses in Japanese) as well.

scholarly journals A phenomenology of news: Understanding news in digital culture

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488491990119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stina Bengtsson ◽  
Sofia Johansson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Digital Culture ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
News Values ◽  
Use Patterns ◽  
News Consumption ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Digital News ◽  
Production And Distribution

Digital media transform news. First, we see this in changing use patterns. Young people today show a decline in interest in traditional news formats and practices, such as watching the evening news on TV or reading a daily newspaper. But digital media also transform production and distribution of news, leading to new ways to conceptualise and understand news. In the light of these profound transformations in audience behaviour many have started to question the concept of news in news research. In the light of such altered production and distribution contexts which are likely to fundamentally impact on audiences’ definitions and perceptions, this article sets out to explore alternative ways to understand and conceptualise news, beyond traditional news research. What is news today, and how can we study it from the perspective of news audiences, without resorting to preconceived notions? We propose a theoretical approach based in classic phenomenology which, we argue, will open up for further reconsideration of the concept as well as providing a potentially fruitful basis for research on digital news consumption. Phenomenology takes human existence as its vantage point and explores how human subjects exist and create meaning in their everyday lives in relation to basic categories such as time, space and (sociocultural) relevance. We argue phenomenology to be particularly relevant for exploring new meanings of news as the basic dimensions of phenomenology not only coincide with the basic dimensions of news consumption, but also of those of news values; time, space, and (sociocultural) relevance.

Labor Reporting and Its Critics in the CIO Years

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-75
Author(s):  
Philip Glende
Keyword(s):  
General Circulation ◽  
Organized Labor ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
News Values ◽  
Union Leaders ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dramatic Rise ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The New Deal

This monograph examines daily newspaper coverage of organized labor during the burst of union activity that began in the early 1930s. Three factors influenced labor reporting during this period: the dramatic rise of unions as a political, economic, and cultural force in the New Deal; trends in journalism, including the dominance of objectivity as an operating norm and the shift toward interpretive reporting; and journalists, their sources in labor leadership, and the emergence of the American Newspaper Guild. Union leaders were highly critical of the general circulation press and its coverage of labor issues. I argue that labor news was biased against unions, but that bias was not the result of a deliberate attempt to discredit unions. Despite prounion inclinations of some journalists, news values, news gathering routines, and newsroom practices shaped labor reporting in a way that emphasized organized labor’s role in repeatedly challenging and disrupting the status quo.

“A First-Class Attraction on Any Stage”

Graphic News ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 85-122
Author(s):  
Amanda Frisken
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
Ghost Dance ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
Lakota Sioux ◽  
Sitting Bull ◽  
Limited Power ◽  
Wounded Knee

This chapter examines the 1890 Ghost Dance, a nonviolent religious practice among the Lakota Sioux. In covering the Ghost Dance, daily newspaper editors Joseph Pulitzer (the New York World) and William Randolph Hearst (the San Francisco Examiner), along with the New York Herald and ChicagoTribune, experimented with the limits of news illustration. Their images mischaracterized the dance as a declaration of war, contributing to events leading to the massacre at Wounded Knee. Their quest for illustrations that were both “authentic” (photograph-based) and dramatic led editors to appropriate images from the entertainment marketplace (photographs of Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show), for political and commercial benefit. The Lakota’s efforts had limited power to correct misrepresentations of the dance and its aftermath.

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