Journalism and the Invasion of Grenada 30 Years On: A Retrospective

The 1983 United States-led invasion of Grenada represents an important case study of journalism in the front line because it marked a changing point in the relationship between journalists and the US administration. The exclusion of news organisations and independent journalists at the time can be conceived of as a test in trying new forms of information management. The tensions experienced between journalists, government and military officers signalled the need to design alternative solutions to the problem of information coverage in wartime

Capturing Saddam Hussein: How the full story got away, and what conflict journalism can learn from it

The capture of Saddam Hussein in December 2003 was reported with a sense of triumph which must have greatly satisfied the United States forces occupying Iraq. This was the victory they had been looking for; the seminal moment which signalled that the invasion had been a success. But the reporting of that event was also a missed opportunity: an example of incomplete story telling. In this article, I use my personal experience of reporting on the event for the BBC as a starting point to examine what it, and the way it was covered, tell us about the omissions which are frequently a feature of conflict reporting. The article argues that the way in which reporters had to work in Iraq then meant that they did not convey all of the event’s wider implications, and suggests how that might be improved

Virtual Reality, 360⁰ Video, and Journalism Studies: Conceptual Approaches to Immersive Technologies

A growing number of newsrooms are experimenting with Virtual Reality (VR) and other immersive storytelling techniques, typically supported by technology companies that see journalism as a potential vehicle for taking VR mainstream. The resulting pieces have been wide-ranging in topic, style, and scope, but all introduce new complexities to journalistic norms and practices. To date, however, journalism studies scholars have conducted relatively little research into these immersive technologies. This essay proposes three conceptual approaches to examining VR journalism: Actor-Network Theory, normative theory, and a sociological perspective on journalistic work

The Work of Cultural Intermediaries and the Enduring Distance between Production and Consumption

This article raises some critical questions about cultural intermediaries as both a descriptive label and analytic concept. In doing so, it has two main aims. First, it seeks to provide some clarification, critique and suggestions that will assist in the elaboration of this idea and offer possible lines of enquiry for further research. Second, it is argued that whilst studying the work of cultural intermediaries can provide a number of insights, such an approach provides only a partial account of the practices that continue to proliferate in the space between production and consumption. Indeed, in significant ways, a focus on cultural intermediaries reproduces rather than bridges the distance between production and consumption. The paper focuses on three distinct issues. First, some questions are raised about the presumed special significance of cultural intermediaries within the production/consumption relations of contemporary capitalism. Second, how 'creative' and active cultural intermediaries are within processes of cultural production is discussed. Third, specific strategies of inclusion/exclusion adopted by this occupational grouping are highlighted in order to suggest that access to work providing 'symbolic goods and services' is by no means as fluid or open as is sometimes claimed

Journalists at work - revisited

Članek obravnava pomen enega izmed najustvarjalnejših del Jeremy Tunstalla - knjige Journalists at Work, ki je prvič izšla leta 1971. To je bilo prva pomembna družboslovna študija novinarjev v Veliki Britaniji. Tunstall je raziskavo začel leta 1965, ko ni bilo še niti ene študije britanskega novinarstva. Njegova študija je proučevala specializirane odbiralce novic v nacionalnih dnevnikih in zajela okrog petnajst odstotkov novinarjev teh časopisov oz. dva odstotka vseh britanskih novinarjev. Članek obravnava tri vidike Tunstallove študije: novičarske organizacije in njihove cilje, odnos medijev do virov ter novinarsko profesijo, poleg tega pa še kotekst in metodološko zasnovo raziskave.This article takes the opportunity to look in more detail at one of Jeremy Tunstall\u27s seminal works - Journalists at Work published in 1971. It was the first major social science study of specialist journalists in the UK. Tunstallbegan the research in 1965 at a time when no single social science study of British journalism existed. Tunstall\u27s study of British journalism set out to investigate specialist news gatherers on national newspapers constituting approximately fifteen per cent of the personnel in those organisations and representing about two percent of all British journalists. Three aspects of Tunstall\u27s study are discussed: news organisations and their goals, the source-media relationship, and the occupation of journalism in addition to some comments about the context and the methodology of the research

News: A Reader

The oxford readers in Media and Communication bring together vital scholarship and views, on important and pervasive issues andproblems facing media organizations, industries and processes. The material, draw from a range of sourcee, isprganized around key themes, social concerns and public debates. An introduction by the volume editor discusses the otems chosen and the questions with which the deal. These accessible, well structured readers will be the key texts for students on media and cultural studies, communication,journalism and public policy courses, as well as general readers interestedin a world in which the communications revolution is transforming society itself

Fighting the war against crime: television, police and audience

This article analyses the origins of the popular BBC TV crime programme, Crimewatch UK, and the initial constraints that have shaped its subsequent evolution. Crimewatch's selection criteria put it firmly in the camp of popular journalism and relate closely to the need to hold a large audience. The programme has broken new ground in British television's co-operation with the police: the production team is given an unusual measure of access to the details of cases under investigation. Furthermore, in drawing upon the vogue for audience participation Crimewatch UK has sought to bring about a new relationship between the police and the viewing public by its attempt to mobilize public responses. This shift has now been emulated by other programmes in the new genre such as Crimestoppers and Crime Monthly

Reporting Crime: The Media Politics of Criminal Justice

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Relating news analysis and public opinion: applying a communications method as a 'tool' to aid interpretation of survey results

This article documents the methodological steps taken to use news analysis as a ‘tool’ for retrieving systematic information on political events to be used in the interpretation of findings from surveys on public opinion. The approach uses the selection function of mass media in producing ‘news’ as a proxy to identify the ‘political climate’ of a specific country at a specific time. This information on ‘political climate’ can be used to control whether ‘exceptional’ political events occurred during the period of fieldwork for surveys on public opinion that may have unduly biased the findings. Such a tool is especially useful for cross-national comparative survey research that is also longitudinal and the project described here was conducted within the framework of the European Social Survey (ESS). The specific news analysis method used to develop the tool draws inspiration from ‘claims-making analysis’