Mediatization and the Language of Journalism

Hout, Tom Van; Burger, Peter

doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190212896.013.9

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“…Werner, 2016Werner, , 2019. Overall, by way of a case study, the present analysis was intended (i) to provide an insight into current mediatized journalistic language (Van Hout & Burger, 2017), and (ii) to highlight the potential of a combined media-linguistic approach toward political reporting through a from of CMC. Therefore, it may also inform the wider discussion in neighboring fields, such as communication and (digital) journalism studies.…”

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Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Michael¹,

Werner²

2021

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Live text (LT) has emerged as a web-native CMC alternative to traditional forms of live broadcasting. Through a combined content and corpus-based discourse analysis of the LT coverage of a major political event (the 2020 US presidential debates), the present study tests (i) how current LTs emphasize transparency and accountability, and (ii) how they are a form of journalistic communication that normalizes professional norms of objectivity in hybrid media settings. Political LT emerges as multi-layered and multi-authored discourse that places strong emphasis on accountability and disclosure transparency by updating and linking information, while maintaining the journalistic gatekeeping/gatewatching function. Linguistically, it is characterized by an informal tone but also by a continuation of traditional news media practices as regards objectivity, as instantiated by the salience of debate topics and political terms and -unlike the more widely studied sports LT -by a clear delineation of information from opinion and contextualization.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Michael¹,

Werner²

2021

Preprint

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“…The news articles were analyzed based on the guidelines outlined in the Manual on Proper Writing (MMP), which consists of seventeen (17) sections/rules on spelling and writing in the Filipino language. The researcher only utilized ten (10) sections/rules from the MMP in analyzing the news articles written by tabloid writers. The following 10 writing rules of the MMP were selected for the following reasons: 1.…”

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Filipino in Periodismo: Analyzing the Common Practices of Tabloid Writers in News Writing Using Filipino Language

Luza

2023

IJMRA

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This study is about the Filipino language in the field of journalism. The issue of spelling and guidelines in writing poses a great challenge to the National Language, which is why this study focuses on spelling in Filipino in writing news articles in tabloids. Using the Structuralism and Formalism concepts, 60 news articles from six (6) tabloids were analyzed based on the guidelines set in the Manwal sa Masinop na Pagsulat (MMP) (Manual on Proper Writing) by the Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF)) to determine the spelling and writing techniques used in tabloid news articles. In order to achieve the main objective of this paper, the researcher considered these steps: first, the news articles were analyzed through coding analysis based on the existing guidelines in the MMP; second, organized the coded data according to the MMP rules; lastly, six journalists were interviewed to determine the foundations of their practices in using Filipino language when writing news articles. In the researcher's analysis, it was found that almost all of the corpora used in tabloids conform to the guidelines recommended by the KWF's MMP. Although there are some words that do not fully conform to the guidelines, particularly those related to consonant clusters, substitution of E with I, O with U, and the use of hyphens. In the interviews conducted, it was revealed that the bases of the six journalists in using Filipino in writing news articles in tabloids is based on the readers' knowledge and familiarity in selecting and spelling words. Even tabloid editors still have the final decision on whether or not to accept the selected spellings of words. After getting the result, it is recommended to have a set of guidelines that all writers should follow to promote uniformity and standardization in writing in Filipino. This way, readers, especially students, will have a better understanding of proper spelling and writing in Filipino.

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“…Firstly, one might wonder how language is entextualized as it travels across "boundaries of time, texts, contexts, media" (Jaffe, 2009, p. 573), and in this case specifically across boundaries of media, science and politics. Secondly, it is interesting to see how media outlets and journalists deal with this mediatization in the context of ongoing challenges, such as commercial pressure, large information flows, and loss of authority (Van Hout & Burger, 2015). Recently, studies have shown how these challenges have prompted innovations and a new sense of reflexivity in newsrooms around the world, in which journalists critically rethink how they should navigate these challenges and what journalism means within this complex context (Carlson, 2016;Mast et al, 2019).…”

Section: The Relationship Between Media Science and Politicsmentioning

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Reflexivity and Negotiation in Collaborative Journalism on air Quality

Verkest

2021

Journalism Studies

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This paper sheds new light on collaborative journalism and investigates how this innovative newsroom practice affects the news production process and product. More particularly, we focus on a collaborative project on air pollution involving a newspaper, university, and environmental government agency and examine how journalists and professionals within the fields of science and policy-making interact within this collaboration. We draw on linguistic ethnographic fieldwork behind the scenes of the collaborative project as well as a comparative multimodal discourse analysis of news items produced within the collaboration and similar news items produced a year earlier outside the collaboration. In our study, we analyse how the act of collaborating blurs boundaries between the traditional professional identities for the three categories of actors involved and urges them to reflect on their own and each other's discursive practices. Our study demonstrates the added value of a linguistically sensitive analysis of both the discursive processes behind the scenes of the news production process as well as the news product itself, in revealing how innovative newsroom practices like collaboration between journalists and expert sources shape the (language of) news.

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Mediatization and the Language of Journalism

Cited by 8 publications

References 71 publications

Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Live Text Coverage of Political Events : Combining Content and Corpus-based Discourse Analysis

Filipino in Periodismo: Analyzing the Common Practices of Tabloid Writers in News Writing Using Filipino Language

Reflexivity and Negotiation in Collaborative Journalism on air Quality

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