Broadcasting National Election Returns, 1952–1976

Bohn, Thomas W.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1980.tb02026.x

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“…Estimates for 2015 and 2017 suggest that the average audience for the duration of BBC1’s election night coverage was over 4 million, about 4 times that of ITV and more than 10 times that of Sky (Press Gazette, 2017; The Guardian , 2015). Comparing rival broadcasts would enable fuller consideration of the narratives that emerge from election night, including from the competition between them – an issue that has repeatedly been highlighted in US studies (Bohn, 1980; Frankovic, 2003; Marriot, 2007). However, in the UK case, rivalry between the broadcasters to be the first to call an election has never been as intense as it is in the US, as underlined by the recent practice of the three main UK broadcasters pooling their resources to produce a joint exit poll.…”

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The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017

Wilks‐Heeg

Andersen

2020

Political Studies

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This article examines the role of results forecasts and exit polls in BBC general election night broadcasts from 1955 to 2017. Despite the substantial role played by academics in results programmes, in devising forecasts and analysing results as they emerge, academic literature on election night broadcasts is scant. This article charts the development of election night forecasting over time and its implications for the structure and content of election night broadcasts. It draws on a unique new data set of verbatim transcripts of the first hour of every BBC election night broadcast from 1955–2017 to quantify the attention paid to forecasts and exit polls and assess how they frame discussion of the likely outcome and its potential political consequences. The article concludes that the function of election night broadcasts as ‘the first draft of psephology’ merits closer attention for both the political narratives and the academic research agendas they generate.

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The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017

Wilks‐Heeg

Andersen

2020

Political Studies

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“…When the American television network CBS UNIVAC computer was first used for the preparation of the forecast results of presidential elections during a live broadcast on the night of vote counting (1952). The computer dealt with the task by selecting Dwight D. Eisenhower, who was elected by American citizens (Bohn, 1980;Hermida & Young, 2019;Lepore, 2020). The basis of this type of activity was laid in the 1990s, when hypertext, an interactive, multimedia environment, invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee was introduced to the technology of media production.…”

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Digital journalism as a new type of media activity

Shelefontiuk

2021

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The relevance of the study is caused by the continuous transformation and innovations of the digital environment, the undefined categorical apparatus of digital journalism, and national peculiarities of the process of creating online journalistic discourse. The main purpose of the study is to identify the conceptual features of digital journalism and to highlight the communication specificity of the designated type of media. Based on the studies of R. Salaverría, it is proposed to understand under digital journalism all types of journalism performed with the help of digital technologies, that is changeable social journalistic practice focused on a heterogeneous mass audience, presented in specific but at the same time changeable genres and formats. Thus, there are debates on the application of the terms ‘cyberjournalism’, ‘online journalism’, ‘multimedia journalism’, ‘computational journalism’, ‘algorithmic journalism’, ‘data-driven journalism’, and others to this type of media activity. The main research method applied in this study is discourse analysis, which made it possible to understand the problems of a modern digital environment, to trace the genesis of digital journalism, to carry out typological analysis of the existing digital media system, to determine the specifics of media products and audience participation in digital creation and consumption of news. The novelty of the study lies in an attempt to introduce a systematic definition of ‘digital journalism’ into the scientific discourse, to pay attention to such features as uncertainty and variability, a transformation of the traditional categorical apparatus, changing roles and functions of participants in the communicative process. The results of the study clarify the subject-object and structural characteristics of modern journalism as well as determine the organizational and technological transformations of digital media production.

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Digital Journalism

Salaverría¹

2019

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies

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Since the 1990s, digital journalism as a form of journalism that researches, produces, and publishes news solely with digital technologies has expanded rapidly. In addition to defining this model of journalism, this entry explains the global dimension that digital journalism has reached, as well as its history, typology of media, storytelling formats, ethical aspects, and future economic and technological challenges.

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Broadcasting National Election Returns, 1952–1976

Cited by 13 publications

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The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017

The Only (Other) Poll That Matters? Exit Polls and Election Night Forecasts in BBC General Election Results Broadcasts, 1955–2017

Digital journalism as a new type of media activity

Digital Journalism

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