Carey L Higgins-Dobney
Biographic Data
| ID | 4908567 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carey L Higgins-Dobney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carey L |
| FAMILY NAME | Higgins-Dobney |
| SIGNATURE | HIGGINS-DOBNEY C L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2091-9690 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting News Work
Make Slot not Art
Journalism is considered a creative industry, but newsroom workers can only incorporate creativity into their stories if they have the time, tools and support for such endeavors. The structural conditions of capitalism, however, often leave workers without creative opportunities as ownership focuses on increased output and income expectations over storytelling. Instead, many workers find "one more thing" continually being added to their workloads…
News Work
By virtue of their licenses, local television stations in the United States must serve in the public interest of their communities. Because many stations’ ownership is by corporate conglomerates, however, that public interest is often considered secondary to revenue maximization. Labor is exploited to meet this goal, with technology deployed in newsrooms to consolidate job descriptions, replace human labor with computers, and add sales-ready cont…
The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism
On the February 11, 2013, days before the Oscars, Rhythm & Hues—the visual effects (VFX) company that made The Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012), nominated for Best Picture and Best Visual Effects—announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 1 Ordinarily, the bankruptcy of a VFX house is such a common occurrence that this event would hardly cause a ripple in the wider visual effects community. On this occasion though, in an irony not lost on anyone within the indus…
The growth of TV news, the demise of the journalism profession
In response to the dearth of critical literature on the transformation of local news ownership structure and the impacts of technological reorganization of news production on the television profession and local communities, we analyze the consolidation of local news and the paradox of expanded news hours in times of shrinking staffs and less-trusting audiences. Focused on Portland, Oregon, characterized as one of America’s most civically active c…
The growth of TV news, the demise of the journalism profession
In response to the dearth of critical literature on the transformation of local news ownership structure and the impacts of technological reorganization of news production on the television profession and local communities, we analyze the consolidation of local news and the paradox of expanded news hours in times of shrinking staffs and less-trusting audiences. Focused on Portland, Oregon, characterized as one of America’s most civically active c…
News Work
By virtue of their licenses, local television stations in the United States must serve in the public interest of their communities. Because many stations’ ownership is by corporate conglomerates, however, that public interest is often considered secondary to revenue maximization. Labor is exploited to meet this goal, with technology deployed in newsrooms to consolidate job descriptions, replace human labor with computers, and add sales-ready cont…
Make Slot not Art
Journalism is considered a creative industry, but newsroom workers can only incorporate creativity into their stories if they have the time, tools and support for such endeavors. The structural conditions of capitalism, however, often leave workers without creative opportunities as ownership focuses on increased output and income expectations over storytelling. Instead, many workers find "one more thing" continually being added to their workloads…
The growth of TV news, the demise of the journalism profession
In response to the dearth of critical literature on the transformation of local news ownership structure and the impacts of technological reorganization of news production on the television profession and local communities, we analyze the consolidation of local news and the paradox of expanded news hours in times of shrinking staffs and less-trusting audiences. Focused on Portland, Oregon, characterized as one of America’s most civically active c…
The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism
On the February 11, 2013, days before the Oscars, Rhythm & Hues—the visual effects (VFX) company that made The Life of Pi (Ang Lee, 2012), nominated for Best Picture and Best Visual Effects—announced Chapter 11 bankruptcy. 1 Ordinarily, the bankruptcy of a VFX house is such a common occurrence that this event would hardly cause a ripple in the wider visual effects community. On this occasion though, in an irony not lost on anyone within the indus…
News Work
By virtue of their licenses, local television stations in the United States must serve in the public interest of their communities. Because many stations’ ownership is by corporate conglomerates, however, that public interest is often considered secondary to revenue maximization. Labor is exploited to meet this goal, with technology deployed in newsrooms to consolidate job descriptions, replace human labor with computers, and add sales-ready cont…
Make Slot not Art
Journalism is considered a creative industry, but newsroom workers can only incorporate creativity into their stories if they have the time, tools and support for such endeavors. The structural conditions of capitalism, however, often leave workers without creative opportunities as ownership focuses on increased output and income expectations over storytelling. Instead, many workers find "one more thing" continually being added to their workloads…
Revisiting News Work
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