Beyond the Broadcast Interview

Specialized forms of interviewing in the making of television news

Bibliographic Data

ID12658692
AuthorsMats Ekström (0000-0001-8004-4975, Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Åsa Kroon Lundell
Year2010
Volume12
Issue2
Pages172-187
Publication date2010-08-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-670X • E-ISSN: 1469-9699
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1461670x.2010.493328
OpenAlexW1524499555
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited29

Based on a mixed-method approach, this article aims at exploring the specialized forms of interviewing that are used as resources in television broadcast news production. Interviews are analysed as functionally specialized forms of interaction (cf. Heritage, 1985) with various functions in different phases of the news production. We assume that interviews are organized and carried out as communicative activities oriented towards specific tasks, identities and contexts of interaction. In contrast to established definitions of the archetypical on-air news interview, we argue that broadcast interviewing is only partially produced for an “overhearing audience” (Heritage, 1985). Taking into account the entire process of producing and presenting news, journalism harbours a multitude of interviewing practices and activities which remain invisible if only the taped and transcribed broadcast talk is analysed. Our study clearly indicates that news interviews contain more diversified and hybrid activities of communication than have been described in previous research

Broadcast journalism · Broadcast television systems · Interview · Journalism · Media studies · Multitude · Political science · Process (computing · Public relations · Qualitative research · Semi-structured interview · Social science · Sociology · Telecommunications · Anthropology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Media Studies and Communication

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