Death Makes the News

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica M. Fishman
Keyword(s):  
Random Process ◽  
News Media ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Sensitive Topics ◽  
Pictures And Words ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

Because it is impossible to create an unfiltered mirror to reality, the news media selectively rely on particular pictures and words to shape our understanding of world events. The construction of news is never a random process, and photojournalism is far more than a mechanical undertaking. Because photographs literally craft boundaries, systematically hiding one reality while illuminating another, this book extensively examines how pictures represent tragedy, uncovering surprising editorial forces that persistently structure the way the news media cover death. Some deaths are concealed, while others are illustrated in great detail, and this book develops formulas predicting these fates. We see how deep political cleavages, especially those powered by nationalism, create remarkable patterns of visibility and invisibility. The patterns are striking, but they overturn long-held assumptions about which deaths are newsworthy, raising fundamental questions about the role of news images. This behind-the-scenes account shares many photographs, including images that were censored from the news. It also explores in-depth interviews with industry leaders who admit to self-censorship and industry censorship. It engages impassioned controversies over bearing witness, protecting privacy, and other sensitive topics.

Evaluating organisational ethics in Spanish news media

Journalism ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 1142-1162 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Luengo ◽  
Carlos Maciá-Barber ◽  
José Luis Requejo-Alemán
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
News Media ◽  
Ethical Standards ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Organisational Ethics ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Journalistic Ethics ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

Drawing from 420 surveys addressed to news media practitioners, 30 in-depth interviews with media executives and 6 focus groups, this article focuses on the institutional dimensions of ethics in journalism and explores the way in which ethical standards are perceived by journalists and other representative groups involved in Spanish news media. The data show that participants ascribe moral obligations to journalistic institutions. Interviewees emphasise the predominance of market-driven interests over ethical values as one of the main threats to journalism. However, differences between the perceptions of journalists and media executives reveal that the latter believe that journalistic ethics pertain to individual journalists.

scholarly journals Cameroonians in Oslo, Diaspora, and Uses of the Media

2009 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Mainsah
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Public Discourse ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Media ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Diasporic Identities ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

Abstract In this study a series of in-depth interviews were conducted with Cameroonians living in Oslo in order to analyze the role of media in the way they constructed their identities. The article showed how through the use of email and Cameroonian websites transnational social networks were strengthened, and ethnic identities were maintained. It examined the role of public discourse in the host country’s mass media in the way Cameroonians negotiated their relationship with the host country. It also showed how the popularity of Anglo-American audiovisual products indicated a willingness to embrace global popular culture. This article’s main argument was that the construction of diasporic identities involved a multi-directional gaze; looking inward to the local context of the host country, backwards to the home country, and all around to the global context, and that the media played a major role in all these processes.

Exploring the blurred nature of strategic linkages across the BSC

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 486-515 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Francioli ◽  
Lino Cinquini
Keyword(s):  
Balanced Scorecard ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Human Actors ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
The Way

Purpose – The research aims at addressing the way in which linkages based on qualitative causality could be preferred in designing a balanced scorecard (BSC), by applying a cost-benefit judgment with respect to the complexity of defining strong, statistically reliable cause-and-effect relations among performance measures. Design/methodology/approach – The authors review the way in which cause-and-effect relations across the BSC have been developed based on a case study of BSC implemented in an Italian bank collecting data by in-depth interviews and company’s internal archives. Findings – The research reveals how the ambiguity, or “blurred nature”, of strategic linkages is recognized in the empirical setting of an bank, facing a highly uncertain and complex environment and how the orthodox tools of strategy maps and explicit cause-and-effect linkages prescribed by the theoretical literature are avoided by the human actors. Despite these omissions, the BSC is nevertheless effective. As the case shows, it generated a “democracy” where individuals and departments communicate, commit and collaborate in an effort to implement strategy. The research also shows the role of the BSC in heightening the importance and awareness of performance evaluation among the actors. Practical implications – The research provides practitioners with insights into how to design and manage cause-and-effect relationships in BSC. In particular, evidence is provided that finality linkages in BSC may be successful in use and predictive capabilities, according with expectations and purposes of the organization’s “climate of control”, in a context in which the cost-benefit philosophy in implementing BSC is followed. Originality/value – The paper addresses an issue of practical relevance in the implementation of BSC showing a discrepancy between theoretical and practical meaning of causality. Besides the research highlights, the extent to which linkages across the BSC perspectives (and related measures and variables) can only be based on individual assumptions about the means to an end and based on qualitative assertions (finality).

Manufacturing consent? The role of the international news on the Korean Peninsula

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 265-281 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miri Moon
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
International News ◽  
International Conflicts ◽  
News Frames ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Foreign Correspondents ◽  
Propaganda Model ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article attempts to investigate the applicability of the Propaganda Model (PM) elaborated by Herman and Chomsky within the context of the conflict between South and North Korea. Coupled with the identification of dominant news frames, this study draws on in-depth interviews with foreign correspondents in Seoul to explore journalistic practices in covering conflicts in the Korean Peninsula. The findings show that a conflict frame and a human interest frame were prominent in national and international news, respectively. This article further discusses the role of the international news media in reporting on international conflicts from sociological and geopolitical perspectives.

Gatekeeping, ideological affinity and journalistic translation

Journalism ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 146488492091729
Author(s):  
Roberto A Valdeón
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Research Question ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
News Production ◽  
Translational Activity ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

This article studies the role of translation as a first-level gatekeeping mechanism in news production. Contrary to previous views that translation was secondary for the selection and dissemination of news events, it is posited that the translational activity reflects the decisions made by news media, particularly, in the case of services in languages aimed at non-native audiences. The article is structured as follows. First, it surveys the concepts of gatekeeping and ideological affinity with regard to news translation. Then a research question concerning the reporting of the Catalan secessionist crisis in Spain is presented. This will serve to examine how translation functions as a gatekeeping mechanism. The corpus selected for the analysis comprises the Spanish articles and English versions posted by El País in the 3 months prior and the 3 months posterior to the simultaneous appointments of Spain’s new Prime Minister and of the new editor of El País. This coincidence constitutes a unique opportunity to delve into the relationship between translation and gatekeeping. The findings show that the ideological affinity between the political leader and the editor may have prompted a significant change in the way the Catalan crisis was reported, particularly in the translated versions.

scholarly journals The Role of Language Ideology in Translating News Media: The Case of the Syrian War

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Andree Affeich
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Language Ideology ◽  
Online News ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The objective of this study is to examine the role of ideology in translating news media, and the representation of language in the media. The framing approach and the framing of realities through the process of translation will be examined whereby ‘changes’ are made for ideological purposes in response to the attempts of the group of receptors and to ‘the norms’ of those receptors. The impact of language ideology on translation and the way in which translation serves cultural, political, religious or literary concepts continues to grow nowadays. Ideology is affecting the translation of the source texts in many types of discourses, among them the journalistic discourse which constitutes the subject of this study. How does ideology work? How is ideology conveyed through the translation of news media? What is its role and impact on the target texts? How does ideology influence the choices of translators? These are some of the questions which will be dealt with throughout this paper. The representation of language in media will be also studied with a particular attention to be given to the use of lexical choices that show how ideology appears in the source texts and the target texts, and to the validity and legitimacy of language which carries an ideological stamp. For the purpose of this study, a corpus of online news articles in English highlighting the war in Syria will be used in parallel with the translation of this corpus into Arabic by two opposite media outlets: the pro-regime and the anti-regime.

scholarly journals Chatbots on the Rise: A New Narrative in Journalism

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Veglis ◽  
Theodora A. Maniou
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
News Media ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Professional Practices ◽  
Ethical Concerns ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Theoretical Overview ◽  
The Way

With the advent of Web 2.0, new forms of journalism arose, paving the way for the implementation of computational and automatization processes in all aspects of mass communication. As such, chatbots have already been adapted in the news media platforms bringing forward a series of issues and effects upon journalistic narrative, content and professional practices. This paper presents the role of chatbots and their characteristics, discusses the application of different types of chatbots in the news media and presents a theoretical overview of the advantages and disadvantages regarding their adaptation in journalism, as well as key ethical concerns connected to the emergence of this new journalistic narrative.

scholarly journals ‘Words that work?’ Practices of constructive journalism in a local Caribbean context

Journalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 600-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanne Rotmeijer
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Online News ◽  
Social Stability ◽  
Dutch Caribbean ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Cultural Constraints ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Constructive Journalism

This article addresses practices of constructive journalism in the local, postcolonial context of St. Maarten, an autonomous Dutch Caribbean island. Building on extensive fieldwork at print and online news media outlets on the island and 14 in-depth interviews with reporters, editors, and news bloggers, this article shows that constructive journalism practices are widespread in St. Maarten. These are based on ideals of contributing to economic development, engagement and belonging, and social stability. The fieldwork, however, also revealed skepticism toward constructive journalism practices because of local political, economic, and socio-cultural constraints. This skepticism parallels broader critiques on active and involved forms of journalism, throwing up questions about the meaning and feasibility of a ‘constructive’ role of journalists in young, postcolonial democracies. This article argues that local constraints on St. Maarten journalism undermine the normative underpinnings of constructive journalism and calls for more disruptive journalism to serve the local community.

Women's Stories of Depression: A Constructivist Approach

2000 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Rapmund ◽  
Cora Moore
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Constructivist Approach ◽  
Special Child ◽  
African Context ◽  
Women's Stories ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Epistemological Framework ◽  
The Way

The purpose of this study was to allow depressed women to tell their stories about depression. The epistemological framework was that of constructivism. The study involved a series of in-depth interviews with three depressed women with young children. Their stories provide an alternative reality to the traditional way of viewing depression. The major themes that emerged from the participants' stories seemed to be linked to the way in which they found themselves being pulled in opposite directions, ending up in a ‘no-win situation’, with the ‘stuckness’ maintaining the depression. The recurring themes centre around: Divided loyalties; failure to meet expectations; control; competence versus incompetence; love and rejection experienced by the ‘special child’; rootedness versus alienation; confrontation versus avoidance of issues and problems and; the role of support. The themes identified in this study may be helpful to those who work with depressed women in both a Western and African context.

MANUSCRIPT EVIDENCE FOR ALPHABET-SWITCHING IN THE WORKS OF CICERO: COMMON NOUNS AND ADJECTIVES

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 498-516
Author(s):  
Neil O'Sullivan
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Consistent Pattern ◽  
Current Interest ◽  
Reliable Transmission ◽  
Accurate Record ◽  
The Way

Of the hundreds of Greek common nouns and adjectives preserved in our MSS of Cicero, about three dozen are found written in the Latin alphabet as well as in the Greek. So we find, alongside συμπάθεια, also sympathia, and ἱστορικός as well as historicus. This sort of variation has been termed alphabet-switching; it has received little attention in connection with Cicero, even though it is relevant to subjects of current interest such as his bilingualism and the role of code-switching and loanwords in his works. Rather than addressing these issues directly, this discussion sets out information about the way in which the words are written in our surviving MSS of Cicero and takes further some recent work on the presentation of Greek words in Latin texts. It argues that, for the most part, coherent patterns and explanations can be found in the alphabetic choices exhibited by them, or at least by the earliest of them when there is conflict in the paradosis, and that this coherence is evidence for a generally reliable transmission of Cicero's original choices. While a lack of coherence might indicate unreliable transmission, or even an indifference on Cicero's part, a consistent pattern can only really be explained as an accurate record of coherent alphabet choice made by Cicero when writing Greek words.

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