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Journalism is traditionally described as reports concerning new and factual events (e.g. Kunelius, 1996: 17). However, very few pages would remain of the average newspaper if this was the whole truth. Take news reports on the attack in New York, 11 September 2001, for instance. No doubt, this was not only news as 'discourse on discourse' (despite the tremendous symbolic and cinematic qualities of the attack). This was a real-world event. Yet television reports strongly relied upon comments and analysis from experts and pundits, which were generated by the reporters' questions. Therefore, I argue, news content revolves around the practice of quoting: the (co-)construction, selection, editing and representation of comments, explanations, interpretations, speculations, praise and blame, among others. In short, news items are, to a large extent, 'talked into being' (see Boden, 1990: 149).In this article I will analyse quotes in relation to the general news story. The analysis explores and elaborates on four highly typical features: monological versus dialogical narrative frames, reformulations and narrative shifts. My exploration is guided by methods and theories derived from research on spoken discourse. Similar approaches have been fruitfully applied to written texts by Clayman (1990) and Kroon (2001). The analysis is based on a one-week sample of seven conventional Nordic morning papers (15-21 November 1999). The newspapers are: Berlinske Tidende, Politiken (both Denmark), Helsingin Sanomat, Hufvudstadsbladet (Finland), Aftenposten (Norway), Dagens Nyheter and Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden). I have focused on the 'lead story' in every newspaper. The narrative properties of a quoteA general look at the front-page quotes in the data gives a kind of 'snapshot' of public discourse that, to a large extent, still prevails in Scandinavia and many other western countries. There are quarrelling politicians, blaming and counter-blaming 'them' and praising 'us'. There is the European Union 'sharpening its voice' in relation to Russia, and fighting against market restraints in order to promote

This article is a detailed discourse analytic study about the transformation of three social research reports into television news, above all through the reporter–source interview. The focus is on how questions are used to probe responses and explanations and how these are either omitted from or incorporated into the final news stories. By this unique research design the interactional conduct of the reporter–source interview as well as some aspects of question design applied in the interview are described. It is argued that both the interviews as well as the editing of the news stories are guided by ‘narrative relevance’, i.e. the reporter’s preliminary idea of what the emerging story should/could look like, rather than by the actual outcome of the interviews.

Traditional media are being surpassed by Internet media content, which can be accessed by multiple Internet-enabled devices, when and where ever, often even during night-time. The constant availability and widespread use of these streaming media or video-on-demand services have led to changes in media consumption and usage patterns and video viewing behaviour. This study explores the temporal media consumption patterns of different video-on-demand services in Finland by analysing search engine queries, with the aim to investigate when prime-time for these services occurs. The data for this study were obtained from Google Trends, between 30 September and 1 December 2017. Results show that there are clear and recurring temporal patterns for video-on-demand service interest and media consumption in Finland. Popularity in Google searches for the different video-on-demand services start to rise in the evening and peak during night-time and clear troughs are visible during the morning hours and during the day. These strong diurnal characteristics point to a strong media behaviour and makes it easy to predict trends. It is evident that peaks in primetime for streaming media services are visible at night-time and have replaced the television set prime-time. These findings on behavioural patterns and habits might have new and disruptive implications in the post-television era, both on an individual and societal level.

The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of research in online video on newspapers’ websites. The article identifies a number of relevant issues in production and business models and presents research results concerning the production and consumption of online news videos. Advertising in relation to online news videos is also examined.