“There are two different stories to tell” : collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists

Perrin, Daniel

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023

Publication type:	Article in scientific journal
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	“There are two different stories to tell” : collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists
Authors:	Perrin, Daniel
DOI:	10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023
Published in:	Journal of Pragmatics
Volume(Issue):	43
Issue:	7
Page(s):	1865
Pages to:	1875
Issue Date:	2011
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Elsevier
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Amsterdam
ISSN:	0378-2166
Language:	English
Subjects:	Collaborative writing; Realist social theory; Newswriting; Writing strategy
Subject (DDC):	070: News media, journalism and publishing
Abstract:	What do journalists do when they negotiate their work, solve their problems, and produce their multimodal news items? This article outlines a theoretical framework for analyzing newswriting processes as a societal, organizational and individual activity and applies it to a case study drawn from a large ethnographic research project. The project combines realist social theory, domain theory, grounded theory, and progression analysis. Ethnographic interviews with stakeholders, video recordings of workplace conversations, and keystroke logs of writing processes in the newsroom are triangulated within this framework. We investigate how the Swiss public broadcasting company should, actually does, and could promote public understanding in Switzerland while operating between the poles of a political mandate and competitive market forces. The overall findings show that the knowledge of how to bridge the gap between the broadcasting company’s public mandate and market forces cannot be identified in the executive suites, but in the newsrooms. The case study presented in this article illustrates how an experienced professional journalist recognized a critical situation of collaborative text-picture production and overcame an apparently intractable conflict with his emergent solution. This tacit knowledge – the situated, implicit and individual strategies and practices of certain experienced players – can be made available to the corporation as explicit organizational knowledge.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/5030
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Applied Media Studies (IAM)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Perrin, D. (2011). “There are two different stories to tell” : collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists. Journal of Pragmatics, 43(7), 1865–1875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023

Perrin, D. (2011) ‘“There are two different stories to tell” : collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists’, Journal of Pragmatics, 43(7), pp. 1865–1875. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023.

D. Perrin, ““There are two different stories to tell” : collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists,” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 43, no. 7, pp. 1865–1875, 2011, doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023.

PERRIN, Daniel, 2011. “There are two different stories to tell” : collaborative text-picture production strategies of TV journalists. Journal of Pragmatics. 2011. Bd. 43, Nr. 7, S. 1865–1875. DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023

Perrin, Daniel. 2011. ““There Are Two Different Stories to Tell” : Collaborative Text-Picture Production Strategies of TV Journalists.” Journal of Pragmatics 43 (7): 1865–75. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023.

Perrin, Daniel. ““There Are Two Different Stories to Tell” : Collaborative Text-Picture Production Strategies of TV Journalists.” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 43, no. 7, 2011, pp. 1865–75, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.023.