Product Description

Providing eight detailed ethnographies of eight different news production settings, this book bridges the gap between journalistic theory and practice in an invaluable real-life account of reporting in the context of contemporary newsrooms.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #110580 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 208 pages

Review
'The book is written in clear and accessible language and includes a wide range of references ... this book is recommended for the media library and for the teacher's shelf. It will provide stimulating material for getting students interested in news.' - Media Education Association

From the Back Cover

Journalists often say they act out of instinct and experience. Yet how do we reconcile this with academic discussions of the effects of ownership, advertising, news frames, and other institutional and cultural constraints on news production?

News Production: Theory and Practice bridges this gap between journalistic theory and practice. The book assesses existing sociological theories of journalism and changes to news production through case studies of news production settings and interviews with journalists, thus providing both students and working professionals with an invaluable real-life account of reporting in the context of the contemporary newsroom.

Chapters cover practical and theoretical concerns including:

Reporting

Propaganda

Meeting Deadlines

Target Audiences

Ethics and Values

Sources

Images

News Production: Theory and Practice is key reading for journalism students and those wanting to break into the industry.

Sarah Niblock trained at Birkenhead News and Liverpool Echo. She also wrote for Cosmopolitan and Company for several years. Sarah is the author of Inside Journalism (Routledge, 1996) and numerous other academic works on journalism and visual culture. She currently leads the Masters programme in journalism at Brunel University.

David Machin works in the Department of Media and Communications at Leicester University. He is author of The Anglo American Media Connection (1999), Ethnographic Research for Media Studies (2002) and a range of journal publications focussed issues of journalism and media production.

 

Media Studies/Journalism Studies

About the Author
Leicester University, UK