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News Gathering and Reporting
Chapter 13
© 2009, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
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CHAPTER OUTLINE
• Deciding What is News
• News Reporting in the Digital Age
• Categories Of News and Reporting
• The News Flow
• The Wire Services
• Media Differences in News Coverage
• Readership and Viewership
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DECIDING WHAT IS NEWS
• Timeliness
• Proximity
• Prominence
• Consequence
• Human Interest
• Economics
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NEWS REPORTING IN THE DIGITAL AGE
• The digital revolution has changed reporting.
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More Sources of News
• Internet increased number of news sources– General news sites– News aggregators– Specialized news sites
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Blogs
• Represent another source of news
• Can have an agenda setting effect
• Can provide check on traditional media
• Provide additional outlet for reporters
• Make it possible for everyone to be a reporter
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Citizen Journalism
• Ordinary citizens become amateur reporters
• Facilitated by digital and cell phone video cameras, high speed Internet access
• Traditional media encourage citizen journalism
• News organizations no longer monopolize what’s reported and how
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Hyperlocal News
• Coverage of stories of interest to very small community– Single ZIP code– Interest group in defined area
• Most hyperlocal news appears on web sites
• Publishers hope will draw in people who don’t generally consume news
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The Converged Journalist
• Has skills of print journalist and video journalist
• Backpack journalists
• Mobile journalists (mojos)
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New Tools
• Internet allows reporters to access wide variety of information while at their desks– Must learn how to use these tools– Computer-assisted reporting
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CATEGORIES OF NEWS AND REPORTING
• News can be broken down into broad categories
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Hard News
• Traditional fact-oriented journalism– Who, what, where, when, why, how
• Print media– Inverted pyramid format– Lead
• Broadcast media– Square format
• Online media– Varied writing styles
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Soft News
• Features– Wide range of topics– Human interest
• Inverted pyramid style
• More common on TV than radio
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Investigative Reports
• Significant information about matters of public importance
• Non-routine methods
• Longer than typical news item
• Bloggers
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THE NEWS FLOW
• Many gatekeepers in print and broadcast news
• Online reporting may have fewer gatekeepers
• Bloggers
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Print Media
• Sources of print news– Staff reports & wire services
• Other contributing sources, less important
• Staff– City editor
• Beat reporters• General assignment reporters
– Copy desk– Managing editor & assistant managing editor– All are gatekeepers
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Broadcast Media
• Sources of broadcast news– Local reporters & wire services
• Syndicated news services• Network feeds
• Staff– News director– Executive producer & producers– Assignment editor– Reporters and anchors (most reporters are general
assignment reporters)– Camera crews, sound editors, writers, etc– All are gatekeepers
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Online Media
• News flow and production process similar to traditional media– Top executives– Editors– Staff members– Reporters
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THE WIRE SERVICES
• Two biggest wire services– AP: Associated Press– UPI: United Press International
• Wire services provide most of the news about what’s going on outside the local community
• Other wire services compete with AP & UPI
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MEDIA DIFFERENCES IN NEWS COVERAGE
• Print, broadcast, and online media all have strengths and weaknesses
• All play crucial role in informing the public
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Words and Pictures
• Print & online news are organized in space; TV stories organized in time– TV covers fewer stories and in less detail
• TV better at transmitting experience or impressions; print & online better at facts, information, lengthy analysis
• Newspapers & online have more permanence; can cover complex stories better
• TV has strong visual dimension, but visual is also important to print & online
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Print, Online, and Broadcast Journalists
• Appearance and personality of reporters are more important in TV than in print and online– TV newscasters can become stars– Print & online reporters are more anonymous
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Similarities Among the News Media
• Print, broadcast, and online journalists share basic values and journalistic principles– Honesty– Accuracy– Balance– Objectivity– Maintaining credibility
• Credibility is key in keeping public’s trust
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READERSHIP AND VIEWERSHIP
• Audiences for news have been shrinking and getting older
• Except for Internet, exposure to all sources of news has decreased
• Audience has become less likely to trust the media