The Social Production of News

Women's absenteeism in the popular press: Evidence for a gender-specific absence culture

“…In terms of simplified explanations of absenteeism, links to gender should prove a useful pathway, with a strong emphasis on stereotypes. According to Fowler (1991) and Hall et al (1978), the social categories that newspapers use are very broad. The result is that news stories often gloss over complexity in the pursuit of familiarity and end up perpetuating stereotypes (Fowler, 1991).…”

Dismantling the Deadlock: Australian Muslim Women’s Fightback against the Rise of Right-Wing Media

“…While the principle of journalism may be sound, there are deep problems in its processes. This includes the tendency to be directed by elite sources, first identified by Stuart Hall in Policing the Crisis (Hall et al 1978) and still too evident today in the way right-wing commentary has been given air-play. Furthermore, in the US and the UK, alarm bells are ringing about growing elitism in the journalistic cadre (McGill 2016;McNeil 2020;Ruddick 2017).…”

Not Necessarily Not the News: Gatekeeping, Remediation, and The Daily Show

“…TDS can act as bouncer and pare down some of the news that has made it to the News that day, but as the Jackson example shows, it is formally confined by considerations of genre and generic success. Therefore, post‐ TDS remediation, it still holds true that indexing (or primary definition in Hall's parlance) “sets the limit for all subsequent discussion by framing what the problem is” (Hall et al 650). Logistics also cement TDS 's dependence.…”