Elimination of Ideas and Professional Socialisation

Lessons learned at newsroom meetings

Bibliographic Data

ID12909167
AuthorsGitte Gravengaard (Russian State Agrarian Correspondence University, corresponding author), Lene Rimestad (World Federation of Science Journalists)
Year2011
Volume6
Issue4
Pages465-481
Publication date2011-12-13
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-2786 • E-ISSN: 1751-2794
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/17512786.2011.642243
OpenAlexW1588663926
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited60

This article investigates and interprets social and cultural production and reproduction as we turn our attention to an important part of routinised practice in the newsroom: the early newsroom meetings. These meetings are essential sites for the building of the craft ethos and professional vision. Our aim is to study how this building of expertise takes place at meetings with a particular focus on the decision-making process concerning ideas for new news stories. In order to do this, we perform linguistic analysis of news production practices, as we investigate how the journalists' ideas for potential news stories are eliminated by the editor at the daily newsroom meetings. The elimination of ideas for news stories are not just eliminations; they are also corrections of culturally undesirable behaviour producing and reproducing the proper perception of an important object of knowledge—what constitutes “a good news story”—in this community of practice

Engineering ethics · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Engineering · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Psychology · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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