Sourcing the news : key issues in journalism--an innovative study of the Israeli press /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Reich, Zvi
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, [2009]
Series:Hampton Press communication series. Mass communications and journalism.
Subjects:
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.