Satellite News Gathering and News Department Operations

Cleland, Gladys L.; Ostroff, David H.

doi:10.1177/107769908806500417

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“…C. Smith's (1984) research found that 86% of news directors believe technology influences news content. However, stations with satellite newsgathering (SNG) capability created more work for newsgathering personnel (Cleland & Ostroff, 1988). News workers complained that technology was being used as a gimmick, at times overriding news judgments (Berkowitz, 1991).…”

Section: Newsgathering and Technologymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Past research has established that technology played a key role in TV newsgathering (e.g., Berkowitz, 1991;Cleland & Ostroff, 1988;Davie & Lee, 1993;Fahmy & Smith, 2003;Johnsen, 2004;Lacy, Atwater, Qin, & Powers, 1988;Smith, 1984;Wallace, 2009). Johnsen (2004) deemed the technology as a success and proposed that digital technologies may alter news producing organizations, especially how videojournalism may have changed the newsgathering process.…”

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Audience Preferences in Determining Quality News Production of Backpack Journalism

Gee

2018

Electronic News

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The focus of the study centered on television (TV) newsgathering techniques and if the techniques delineated the quality of journalistic presentation. College students ( N = 493) were surveyed on preferences of production quality criteria associated with news stories produced by traditional two-person crews and backpack journalists (BPJs). Respondents were shown eight randomly selected videotaped news stories from a TV market that employed both traditional two-person news crews and BPJs. Each news story was judged on perceptions of pacing, camera composition, lighting, voice narration, interviews selected, and script production.

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Section: Newsgathering and Technologymentioning

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Section: Defining Qualitymentioning

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Audience Preferences in Determining Quality News Production of Backpack Journalism

Gee

2018

Electronic News

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“…At a time when television stations were beginning to discern how to take advantage of satellite trucks to expand their news coverage (''SNG Technology, '' 1986), one of the contemporaneous studies of the technology drew on qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the practices of a Florida station (Cleland & Ostroff, 1988). A Jacksonville television station participated in a cooperative with stations in Orlando, and Miami.…”

Section: Sng and Live Reporting Researchmentioning

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“…A Jacksonville television station participated in a cooperative with stations in Orlando, and Miami. 1 On the basis of interviews, participant observation, and content analysis, Cleland and Ostroff (1988) determined that the stations in this satellite news consortium faced the loss of some editorial control of news content. Additionally, reporters and photographers were subject to greater demands, including the need for greater knowledge and sophistication to explain an event to a statewide or national audience.…”

Section: Sng and Live Reporting Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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“…The race to be the first news station to report from the scene (see Carey, 1986: 195) has led to complaints from viewers that such coverage is often both intrusive and inaccurate (Wittstock, 1991). It is argued that going live may give the story greater importance than it warrants, thus skewing the news agenda (Morris and Nydahl, 1983), while researchers argue that live reporting inflates story length (Cleland and Ostroff, 1988) and that decisions based on economic considerations rather than journalistic values keep reporters on the scene longer than necessary (Tuggle, 1991). At the same time, live reporting may make it difficult for journalists to gather information and to assimilate it into a coherent account (Dunsmore, 1996;Seib, 1997).…”

Section: Reporting Livementioning

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The proximity paradox

Huxford

2007

Journalism

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This article explores a paradox in the way journalism employs proximity in the news. Even while the practice of on-the-spot reportage has continued to increase, research offered here suggests that very little `live' reporting meets the criteria for this term. Rather, presentational devices that create the illusion of this — including digital techniques that generate a form of `virtual proximity' — have helped to produce the sense of `placelessness' that many analysts perceive in modern media. It is proposed that location in news discourse has been recodified to encompass meanings well beyond geographic significance, becoming part of journalism's bid to illustrate and embody abstract issues, being absorbed into the role a news event plays within narrative, and working as a signifier of `eyewitness' or `expert' to promote journalism's cultural authority.

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Satellite News Gathering and News Department Operations

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Audience Preferences in Determining Quality News Production of Backpack Journalism

Audience Preferences in Determining Quality News Production of Backpack Journalism

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

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