Sourcing the news : key issues in journalism--an innovative study of the Israeli press /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cresskill, N.J. :
Hampton Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Hampton Press communication series. Mass communications and journalism.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: all change?
- A period of changes
- The newspapers
- Growth of newspapers
- Book structures
- Studying source work and news work
- Reporters as the optimal link in the news chain
- Reporters as problematical witnesses of their own work
- Established methods and news work
- Reconstruction interviews
- Course of the interviews
- Findings and calculations
- Obtaining news data as a two-phase process
- The characteristics of news phases
- The two-phase process and literature
- The two-phase process and journalistic practice
- Who initiates the news?
- Initiative and reporter-source relations
- The process model
- Technology as an indicator for initiative
- Conclusion: news initiative and the public interest
- The sources of news
- The number of sources
- Established sources
- Various types of sources
- The lure of senior sources
- The lure of spokespersons
- Leaks: the [ab] normal disclosure
- What makes a leak?
- The methodological dilemma
- New technologies, old practices
- Do technologies matter?
- The journalistic "specialization" of technologies
- Different species of reporters
- Format and news work practices
- News beats and journalistic work
- Three "midi-cultures"
- Conclusion: stability in the midst of change
- Stability and news production
- The significance of news practices
- News reporting and efficiency
- Epistemologies of news reporting
- Comparability and representativeness
- Three required steps.