Immediacy, Convenience or Engagement? An analysis of 24-hour news channels in the UK

Lewis, Justin; Cushion, Stephen; Thomas, James

doi:10.1080/14616700500250362

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“…This might be a story that focused on the latest parliamentary controversy or explored the circumstances of a recent crime. We found that this kind of analysis was by far the most common on UK news (examples were found on 40% of the news items on the BBC Ten O'Clock News and on around 10% to 15% of news items on the British news channels; Lewis et al, 2005a).…”

Section: Implication Of Citizenship In the Broader Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This might involve the use of historical context, regional or international comparisons or simply some discussion of why the news story mattered. This might mean allowing citizens more space to develop the political agenda or looking at a crime in its wider context, considering who was at risk and how this compared with other risks that they might face (Lewis et al, 2005a). This kind of context may be much more useful to most viewers, but is rarely provided.…”

Section: Implication Of Citizenship In the Broader Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

“…We now have the contemporary spectacle of news channels competing with each other to be the 'first with breaking news', a struggle which is generally of little interest to anyone outside journalism, since the difference between news channels is rarely more than a few minutes and most 'breaking news' stories are hardly matters of great urgency. Indeed, form has superseded content, and the ability to brand something as 'breaking news' often defines its presence, while most of what is called 'breaking news' is either predictable or routine (Lewis et al, 2005a). If we were being uncharitable, it is what we might call 'the schlock of the new'.…”

Section: Informing Citizenship As a News Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

“…But the point here has more to do with perspective than with form. In a recent study of news channels (Lewis et al, 2005a), we attempted to distinguish between two very different ways of providing context and analysis in broadcast news: one which spoke only to the already-informed citizen, and one which addressed a broader notion of citizenship.…”

Section: Implication Of Citizenship In the Broader Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

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News and the empowerment of citizens

Lewis¹

2006

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article argues that we need to take the democratic promise of news seriously and find ways to advance that promise. It begins by considering both the importance of news to democratic citizenship, and its failure to deliver in ways that do not compound social inequalities. It argues against more optimistic accounts of the state of democratic citizenship, but finds that the notion of public service journalism often lapses into a class-specific discourse for the information-rich. Meanwhile, current news values are contradictory and incoherent, allowing us space to build upon the democratic ideals in journalistic philosophy. The article then argues that citizenship should be brought from the margins of news to its centre. This means implicating citizenship into the news’s mode of address, of going beyond the narrow narratives of current news values and addressing broad citizenship concerns.

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Section: Implication Of Citizenship In the Broader Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implication Of Citizenship In the Broader Landscapementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Informing Citizenship As a News Valuementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Implication Of Citizenship In the Broader Landscapementioning

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News and the empowerment of citizens

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2006

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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“…live, continuous coverage of events has been conducted by Lewis, Cushion and Thomas (2005) in their study of 24 hour news channels in the UK. Such channels have led to a shift, they claim, in the raison d'etre of journalism away from the scoop to immediacy, 'the thirst for "breaking news" '(2005: 466).…”

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The intermediate time of news consumption

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Downey

2017

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Many accounts of contemporary mediated communication of various kinds emphasise speed, immediacy and simultaneity as overriding temporal characteristics, and accounts of journalism are no exception. Acceleration in journalistic practice and the associated changes in news content and its communication have a variety of consequences. In the most extreme accounts, this produces ever-shallower news content while the immediacy of its delivery collapses deliberative time for its interpretation. This article attempts to challenge some of the assumptions on which these assertions are based by taking an alternative starting point in analysing news time and temporality: the news audience. We argue that many accounts which emphasise the paralysing effects of fast communication and the acceleration of news in particular fail to acknowledge the complexities of news consumption, instead pessimistically reading off the effects of speed from communications technologies themselves. We go on to consider the value of social scientific audience research characterisation of practices of consuming the news in contemporary culture and suggest that these need to be accompanied by ethnographic approaches to the audience which engage with the ways in which meaning is produced from the resources that journalism provides in everyday lived contexts.

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Immediacy, Convenience or Engagement? An analysis of 24-hour news channels in the UK

Cited by 53 publications

References 3 publications

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News and the empowerment of citizens

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