News talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter.
Cotter, Colleen| Call Number | 070.43 |
| Author | Cotter, Colleen, author. |
| Title | News talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter. |
| Physical Description | 1 online resource (xiii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | pt. I. The process and practice of everyday journalism. An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language : Contradictory perceptions about news media behaviors ; The ethnographic advantage ; Exploring news and news language from the perspective of the practitioner ; Influences on media language and discourse ; Characteristics and tendencies of media language ; Conclusion: process and practice, underexplored dimensions -- Craft and community: reading the ways of journalists : Articulating primary values ; The craft ethos ; The community factor ; Conclusion: locating and understanding news priorities -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit : "Ways of speaking" ; Socialization into news culture ; Loci of learning ; Conclusion: the apprentice model and journalistic practice. pt. IV. Decoding the discourse. The impact of the news process on media language : Delivering the news ; Coherence of the text ; Linguists as "experts" in news stories -- Appendices : 1. Story samples ; 2. Outline guide for the analysis of news media language ; 3. SPJ code of ethics. pt. III. Constructing the story: texts and contexts. Story design and the dictates of the "lead" : Principles of newswriting ; Story design ; The lead ; Conclusion" the importance of craft -- "Boilerplate": simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning : News discourse rules and boilerplate ; Features of boilerplate ; Implications of boilerplate ; Conclusion: responsibility and "neutral" text production -- Style and standardization in news language : Background: language standardization ; Language standardization in the news context ; Journalists and language: complaints, values, and injunctions ; Changes and innovations in news style ; Conclusion: language awareness and journalistic identity. pt. II. Conceptualizing the news. News values and their significance in text and practice : Determining "newsworthiness" ; News values govern journalistic practice ; News judgment and "instinct" ; Similarity and variation ; Conclusion: the role of news values -- The "story meeting": deciding what's fit to print : What happens at a story meeting: The Oakland Tribune ; Role of news values in story meetings ; Other news-community values ; Boundaries and norms of professional behavior ; Conclusion: news priorities in relation to practice -- The interaction-based nature of journalism : Interaction through practice ; The supremacy of the local ; Loci of interaction ; The pseudo-relationship between news media and community ; Conclusion: identifying interaction in the journalistic context. |
| Summary | Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort a story that was prepared with the most determined effort to be fair and accurate. Using insights from both linguistics and journalism, News Talk is a remarkable picture of a hidden world and its working practices on both sides of the Atlantic. It will interest those involved in language study, media and communication studies and those who want to understand how media shape our language and our view of the world. |
| Subject | Journalism Language. REPORTERS AND REPORTING. |
| Multimedia |
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| Summary | Written by a former news reporter and editor, News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media, showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes, revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Tracing news stories from start to finish, she shows how the actions of journalists and editors - and the limitations of news writing formulas - may distort a story that was prepared with the most determined effort to be fair and accurate. Using insights from both linguistics and journalism, News Talk is a remarkable picture of a hidden world and its working practices on both sides of the Atlantic. It will interest those involved in language study, media and communication studies and those who want to understand how media shape our language and our view of the world. |
| Notes | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
| Contents | pt. I. The process and practice of everyday journalism. An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language : Contradictory perceptions about news media behaviors ; The ethnographic advantage ; Exploring news and news language from the perspective of the practitioner ; Influences on media language and discourse ; Characteristics and tendencies of media language ; Conclusion: process and practice, underexplored dimensions -- Craft and community: reading the ways of journalists : Articulating primary values ; The craft ethos ; The community factor ; Conclusion: locating and understanding news priorities -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit : "Ways of speaking" ; Socialization into news culture ; Loci of learning ; Conclusion: the apprentice model and journalistic practice. pt. IV. Decoding the discourse. The impact of the news process on media language : Delivering the news ; Coherence of the text ; Linguists as "experts" in news stories -- Appendices : 1. Story samples ; 2. Outline guide for the analysis of news media language ; 3. SPJ code of ethics. pt. III. Constructing the story: texts and contexts. Story design and the dictates of the "lead" : Principles of newswriting ; Story design ; The lead ; Conclusion" the importance of craft -- "Boilerplate": simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning : News discourse rules and boilerplate ; Features of boilerplate ; Implications of boilerplate ; Conclusion: responsibility and "neutral" text production -- Style and standardization in news language : Background: language standardization ; Language standardization in the news context ; Journalists and language: complaints, values, and injunctions ; Changes and innovations in news style ; Conclusion: language awareness and journalistic identity. pt. II. Conceptualizing the news. News values and their significance in text and practice : Determining "newsworthiness" ; News values govern journalistic practice ; News judgment and "instinct" ; Similarity and variation ; Conclusion: the role of news values -- The "story meeting": deciding what's fit to print : What happens at a story meeting: The Oakland Tribune ; Role of news values in story meetings ; Other news-community values ; Boundaries and norms of professional behavior ; Conclusion: news priorities in relation to practice -- The interaction-based nature of journalism : Interaction through practice ; The supremacy of the local ; Loci of interaction ; The pseudo-relationship between news media and community ; Conclusion: identifying interaction in the journalistic context. |
| Subject | Journalism Language. REPORTERS AND REPORTING. |
| Multimedia |