scholarly journals Transparency as metajournalistic performance: The New York Times’ Caliphate podcast and new ways to claim journalistic authority

Journalism ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 146488492199731
Author(s):  
Gabriela Perdomo ◽  
Philippe Rodrigues-Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Journalistic Field ◽  
The Times ◽  
Journalistic Authority

Transparency is increasingly touted as a strategic tool for elevating journalistic authority. Despite this push, literature has overlooked how transparency can be utilized for authority purposes in audiovisual artefacts. In this paper, we conduct a qualitative thematic analysis of The New York Times’ podcast Caliphate to examine how transparency is strategically weaponized to stake a claim to journalistic authority. Based on the premise that transparency is a metajournalistic performance – a type of journalism about journalism that is performative in acting on people’s perception of journalistic authority – we identify three of those metajournalistic performances in the podcast: Revealing the journalistic process, Constructing the reporter’s persona and Reaffirming the journalistic culture. Together, they exhibit a form of self-celebratory transparency that strategically performs boundary-setting, definitional control and legitimization functions, in a bid to impress audiences and have them recognize the journalistic authority of the Caliphate reporters and The Times. We conclude with the implications of these strategic performances of transparency. First, how it can be used by reporters to reinstate verticality over audiences. Second, how the journalistic culture (norms, values, practices, etc.) can be transparently projected outward (to the public) or inward (to the journalist themself) to elevate authority – a new concept for journalism studies. Third, how metajournalistic performances of transparency may reveal power dynamics within the journalistic field.

How a copy desk “edit” influenced corrections at the New York Times

2021 ◽  
pp. 073953292110135
Author(s):  
Kirstie Hettinga ◽  
Elizabeth Smith
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
New York Times ◽  
International News ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
Editing Process

The New York Times “streamlined” its editing process in 2017 and reduced the editing staff by nearly half. Through content analysis on corrections (N = 1,149), this research examines the effects of these cuts. Analysis revealed the Times published more corrections before the changes, but that corrections appeared more quickly after the original error occurred and there were more corrections for content in the A section following the staffing cuts. The A section includes national and international news and thus often contains political content, which is rife for heightened scrutiny in an age of media distrust. Practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

OUR KLEENEX CULTURE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-359
Author(s):  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
The City

. . . It takes about 850 acres of Canadian timber to print one Sunday's New York Times. . . . The New York Times sells for 50¢ (1972) and contains more paper and typography than an unillustrated novel selling for $7.95. While the Times carries about 500 photographs and drawings in its Sunday edition and a novel does not, book-binding costs average 22¢ per book. It costs the city of New York nearly 10¢ per copy each week to clean up discarded copies of the Sunday New York Times.

scholarly journals Imagen y comunicación: el peso de la fotografía en el periodismo digital internacional / Image and Communication: the Weight of Photography in International Digital Journalism

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Joan Francesc Fondevila Gascón ◽  
Carlos Cardona Pérez ◽  
Eva Santana López ◽  
Josep Rom Rodríguez ◽  
Javier López Crespo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
News Media ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Total Content ◽  
Home Page ◽  
Large Format ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Digital Journalism ◽  
The Times

ABSTRACTPhotography is one of the singular indicators of digital journalism. Among its exponents (text, photography, video, sound or graphics), photography metamorphoses into the virtual environment. Through an empirical analysis, we compare the reference newspapers from four countries of global relevance: Germany, USA, Japan and the UK. The reference digital versions of the most read newspapers in these countries are Spiegel Online, The New York Times, The Japan Times, and The Times. The items analyzed in this work are all the text units published at the home page, including the number of existing photographs in total content units and the number of different types of pictures, classified in ten different parameters: photo-news, illustrative, new, resource, black and white, color, large format, small format, edited, unedited. This work confirms that photojournalism is losing its relevance at the multimedia area and that photography gives way to the purely illustrative side; photography is an element in relation to the present; black and white photography remains for documentary reasons only; the large format photography is the only with great power in news media; and editing is not as usual activity in journalism as everybody think about.RESUMENLa fotografía es uno de los indicadores singulares del periodismo digital. Entre sus exponentes (texto, fotografía, vídeo, sonido o infografía), el fotográfico se metamorfosea en en el entorno virtual. Se presenta un análisis empírico compa-rativo entre los diarios de cuatro países de relevancia a escala global: Alemania, Estados Unidos, Japón y Reino Unido, a través de las versiones digitales de referencia de los diarios más leídos en estos países: Spiegel Online, The New York Times, The Japan Times y The Times. Los ítems analizados son las unidades texto publicadas en la home page, el número de foto-grafías existentes en el total de las unidades del contenido y el número de los diferentes tipos de fotografías, clasificadas según diez parámetros diferentes: foto-noticias, ilustrativas, nuevas, de recurso, blanco y negro, en color, gran formato, pequeño formato, editadas y sin editar. Se concluye que el fotoperiodismo tiene cada vez menos relevancia en el ámbito multimedia y deja paso a la fotografía puramente ilustrativa.

Jerold S. Auerbach, Print to Fit: The New York Times, Zionism and Israel 1896–2016. Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2019. xii + 309 pp.

2021 ◽  
pp. 290-292
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Jewish Life ◽  
West Bank ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The Political ◽  
The West ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
American Jewish Life ◽  
American Jewish ◽  
The Times

This chapter examines Jerold S. Auerbach's Print to Fit (2019). In this book, Auerbach charges that the New York Times consistently slanted its treatment of Israel in ways that discredited its struggle for survival and instead sympathized with the enemies of Zionism. Having assiduously combed through close to a century of articles, editorials, and op-ed pieces, Auerbach has discovered, especially in recent decades, a “preoccupation with Palestinian victimization — even when Israelis were the victims.” Print to Fit is especially harsh in its treatment of two of the Times' stars, the late Anthony Lewis and Thomas L. Friedman for having so often conveyed their own disenchantment with what they held to be the moral and political failings of Israel — in particular, the extension of Jewish settlements into the West Bank. Written from the political periphery of American Jewish life, Print to Fit risks overstating its case by simplifying it.

Kennewick Man: coming to closure

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (348) ◽  
pp. 1485-1493 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Meltzer
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Television News ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Human Remains ◽  
The State ◽  
Popular Press ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Subject

Few human remains from the distant past have achieved the public visibility and notoriety of Kennewick Man (the Ancient One). Since his discovery in July 1996 in the state of Washington, he has appeared on one of America's best-known television news programmes,60 Minutes. He has been on the cover ofTimemagazine and in the pages ofPeople,NewsweekandThe New York Times.He has been the subject of popular press books (Downey 2000; Thomas 2000; Chatters 2001), and for many years running there were almost annual updates on his whereabouts and status inScience(some 30 in the decade following his discovery). That is saying nothing of the scholarly notice and debate he has drawn (e.g. Swedlund & Anderson 1999; Owsley & Jantz 2001; Steele & Powell 2002; Watkins 2004; Burkeet al. 2008), including a recently issued tome marking the culmination of almost a decade of study (Owsley & Jantz 2014a).

Theat-re or Theat-er: Samuel Johnson or Noah/Merriam Webster?

1968 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Francis Hodge
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Editorial Comment ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Single Letter ◽  
Samuel Johnson ◽  
The Public ◽  
Letter To The Editor ◽  
Single Face ◽  
Spelling Rule ◽  
The Times

When The New York Times on September 16, 1962 changed its official spelling from theatre to theater, it jumped headlong into a controversy actively alive since Shakespeare's day. On the day before, on Sunday, the Drama section showed a single face to the public as it reported and advertised an institution called theatre, but from the next day forward it looked as if the muse wrote in two languages because both spellings were used. The change was made without editorial comment, without a single letter to the editor, without any indication whatsoever that anyone cared. If a few noticed it, they undoubtedly concluded that The Times had fallen victim to an American spelling rule that must have long plagued its copyreaders and thus forgave the change.

scholarly journals Dialogue: Reporting the Chinese economic juggernaut and justice

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182
Author(s):  
Alison McCulloch
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
International Reporting ◽  
The Times

The recipients of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting were two correspondents for The New York Times, Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley, who won for their series of articles on legal issues in China. While visiting New York in May for the awards ceremony, Kahn and Yardley, who are based in Beijing, took part in two roundtable discussions at the Times to talk about the series as well as about some of the rewards and challenges of covering China.

ЛИНГВОКУЛЬТУРНЫЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ ЭВФЕМИЗМОВ В АНГЛИЙСКОМ ЯЗЫКЕ И СПЕЦИФИКА ИХ ПЕРЕВОДА

2020 ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
И.М. Исаев
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
The Times ◽  
The Guardian

Статья посвящена лингвокультурным особенностям эвфемизмов в английском языке и специфике их перевода. Автор рассматривает явление эвфемизации речи как способ интерпретации скрытой прагматической информации, позволяющей осуществлять манипулятивное воздействие на реципиента и различные эвфемизмы, характерные для политической, военной, экономической, культурной и социальной сферы на материале англоязычных СМИ (The Guardian, The Times, The New York Times).

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