Live Reporting in Television News: Breaking News or Black Holes?

Tuggle, C. A.; Huffman, Suzanne

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“…Tuggle and Huffman (2001) suggest that emphasis on live shots to "punch up" a newscast and inject it with energy is replacing consideration of the newsworthiness of a story. They question whether the public is well served when time and resources are routed away from "more meaningful reporting" (p. 343).…”

Section: Selected Normative Researchmentioning

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Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms

Singer¹

2006

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged NewsroomsJane B. SingerThe author gratefully thanks Kappa Tau Alpha, the national journalism honor society, for support of this research through a Chapter Adviser Research Grant. ABSTRACT:As media companies test and implement newsroom "convergence," growing numbers of journalists are producing content not only for their own employer but also for other media outlets with which that employer has a business relationship. This article, based on case studies in four converged news markets, explores journalists' perceptions of normative pressures in this new media environment, particularly in relation to the overarching concept of public service. The findings suggest that although journalists do not see convergence itself as posing significant ethical problems, they do raise concerns related to specific components of public service, including a devotion to accuracy, an avoidance of sensationalism, and independence from economic pressures.

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Section: Selected Normative Researchmentioning

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Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms

Singer¹

2006

Journal of Mass Media Ethics

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“…Some research has shown that, regardless of market size, many stations provide live reporting of various news events without any apparent journalistic justification (Tuggle & Huffman, 2001); hence, we sought to determine to what extent live news reporting was a part of such continuous weather coverage (RQ1) and whether or not the nature of the live reporting was a ''donut,'' as in previous studies (Tuggle & Huffman, 2001), or straight live with no videotape used (RQ2).…”

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“…However, both reporters and news directors agreed that allowing live vans and/ or satellite trucks to ''sit out back'' was a poor utilization of resources. The survey results laid the foundations for a content analysis of newscasts from 24 stations airing more stories containing a live element than standard reporter packages (Tuggle & Huffman, 2001). The analysis demonstrated that in nearly two-thirds of the ''live'' stories, the only live element was a ''donut'': that is, the reporter did a live introduction and a wrap-up of an otherwise pre-recorded story before ''tossing back'' to the anchor.…”

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Conceptualizing Continuous Coverage: A Strategic Model for Wall-to-Wall Local Television Weather Broadcasts

Daniels¹,

Loggins²

2007

Journal of Applied Communication Research

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The 2005 hurricane season provided unprecedented opportunities for local television stations to serve the public interest in live, often commercial-free, coverage of severe weather. In this examination of four local television stations' coverage of four Atlantic hurricanes in two Southeastern markets, observed patterns of behavior culminated in the development of the Local Weather Continuous Coverage Model. The study showed that unlike their cable news counterparts, local television news continuous coverage prioritizes weather personnel over live, on-the-scene news reporting. Of all the weather tools used, radar was the most frequently used, followed by watch and warning graphics.The 2005 hurricane season began as one of the most active in history and never seemed to let up. Even late in the year, forecasters were predicting that Gamma, the 24th storm of the busiest hurricane season on record, could threaten south Florida. These hurricanes and similar natural disasters prompted local news operations and their meteorologists to spring into action. Some reporters have documented stories of hurricane coverage assignments that, while planned for 72 hours, ended up lasting as long as 11 days (Powers, Meyer, & Ryan, 2005), whereas others have made local newspaper headlines for challenging local officials on behalf of viewers (McDaniel, 2005). One newspaper writer received 1,212 notes via email when he asked readers ''Did TV news go overboard covering Hurricane Rita?'' (Hoffman, 2005, p. 11).

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“…In a new subgenre of the package, the "donut" (cf. Tuggle and Huffman 2001), the correspondent can be seen live at the beginning and the end of the package. This subgenre accentuates the immediacy of the reporting and implies very strongly that the information given could change at any time.…”

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16 Producing genres: Pattern variation and genre development

Berkenkotter¹,

Luginbühl²

2014

Handbook of Writing and Text Production

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: Genres rely on conventionalized patterns of language use, yet at the same time they are not static, ontological entities, but rather socially situated, dynamic and changing artifacts. In this chapter, we discuss genres as cultural artifacts, constituting and reflecting situational and cultural change. We further argue that the values and norms of any discourse community have to be balanced and matched, thus demanding a display on a symbolic level. Genre choice and genre form, i.e. genre style can therefore be seen as key sites for the analysis of culture.Analyzing television news genres from the 20th and 21st century as well as asylum case histories from the 19th and 20th century, we show how a genre's form, its variation and change can be related to "news cultures" and changing paradigms in psychiatry. We argue that genre change depends on the discourse community's perception and interpretation of contextual factors and therefore cannot be deduced or predicted from changes of contextual factors alone. As genres and genre change themselves are part of this context, genre change itself can induce cultural change. We then discuss different forms of change and turn to genres in new media, showing how the opportunities of watching new genres arise, and discussing the challenge of separating the technological medium from the different genres realized within. We conclude with a summary of the controversial issues pertaining to the initiation of genre change, the role of the individual in this change and finally, the evidence for the emergence of new genres. Two examples from two domainsThe definition of genre -be it in the "North American school" (cf. Bazerman 1994 ;Berkenkotter and Huckin 1995;Miller 1984 ), the "Sidney school" (cf. Halliday and Martin 1993; Martin, Christy, and Rothery 1987;Martin 1993) the "British ESP School" (cf. Swales 1990Swales , 2004 Bhatia 2004 : 10, 22-23) or in the " Textlinguistik " of German Studies (cf. Heinemann and Heinemann 2002: 129-132; Hausendorf and Kesselheim 2008: 29, 176-185) -is based on the observation that communicative settings and communicative goals are related to certain conventions of language use. As genres include habitualized and conventionalized patterns of language use they enable and facilitate communicative actions. Genres seem for language users to be fixed, almost ontological entities, they seem to emerge as categories out of their own form and content (Mittell 2004). Nevertheless it is common sense in the mentioned new genre theory that genres are not static, essentialistic entities, but are recurrent, socially situated, Brought to you by | Universitaetsbibliothek Basel Authenticated Download Date | 12/18/17 1:00 PM

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Live Reporting in Television News: Breaking News or Black Holes?

Cited by 26 publications

References 4 publications

Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms

Partnerships and Public Service: Normative Issues for Journalists in Converged Newsrooms

Conceptualizing Continuous Coverage: A Strategic Model for Wall-to-Wall Local Television Weather Broadcasts

16 Producing genres: Pattern variation and genre development

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