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.

The aim of this article is to grasp professional journalists’ point of view: the journalists’ self-understanding and their conceptualisation of newswork. The article presents an analysis of journalists’ everyday language, in particular of their everyday metaphors, and what these metaphors show about the given suppositions behind the journalists’ conceptualisation of newswork. This analysis is an explication of an important part of these professional practitioners’ tacit expert knowledge and the conclusion is that several different metaphors – and thus different conceptualisations of newswork – coexist. These results provide an opportunity to nuance previous research as it demonstrates how the journalists’ multi-layered conceptions of newswork are not mutually exclusive but rather co-present in the journalists’ consciousness. Furthermore, the analysis creates an opportunity for journalists to gain a more nuanced insight into their routinised linguistic practice, and thereby makes it possible to discuss and reflect upon this knowledge.

When people interact in institutional settings, they frequently invoke procedure. Professionals invoke procedure in order to set or negotiate the frame for the interaction: how it can, will, should or usually does proceed. This paper identifies an instance of invoking procedure (InP) by five criteria: a participant projects a forthcoming action or series of events, and accounts for the projection; the account conveys institutional reasoning (e.g. purpose, conditions) for projecting the forthcoming action(s), and often invokes membership categories, tacit norms and rules. Through a conversation analytic study, we outline a typology on the functions of invoking procedure and what is accomplished in situ. Our analyses show six local functions of InP in institutional talk-in-interaction: (1) announcing procedure, (2) forcing procedure, (3) negotiating procedure, (4) dealing with criticism of procedure, (5) distancing oneself from procedure, and (6) leaving procedure. Overall, invoking procedure appears to be an important feature of institutional interaction used by professionals in order to deal with asymmetries, negotiate procedure and orient to membership competence acquisition and socialization practices.

In the present article, we investigate socialization practices in the newsroom. The analyses demonstrate how journalist trainees are socialized into this particular professional culture and community of practice. Theoretically, we combine traditional news ethnography with linguistic anthropology, conversation analysis, and theories of profession in order to investigate and interpret social and cultural (re)production in the routinized practice in the newsroom. The units of analysis are interactions between journalist trainees and their editors concerning ideas for news stories. These interactions play a key role in the socialization process as important loci for learning about the craft because of the constant reinforcement of competent practice which takes place here. Thus, these interactions are important sites for cultural production and reproduction that support the building of professional vision.

In this ethnographic study we examine how journalism interns present ideas at morning meetings in the professional environment of a media organization. We analyse not only the idea presentation at the meeting itself, but also how editors treat the idea presentation, and how the interns perceive the situation of presenting idea. We discuss the implications for innovation and creativity in the newsroom. The aim of the research is to gain insight into the socialization of journalism students in order to discuss and improve the academic and craft education of the students.