Argumentation in the newsroom / Marta Zampa, Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zampa, Marta, author.

Series:

Argumentation in context ; Volume 13.

Argumentation in Context (AIC), 1877-6884 ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Journalism--Language.

Journalism.

Mass media and language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam, [Netherlands] ; Philadelphia, [Pennsylvania] : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017.

Summary:

The news we see daily is selected from among alternatives by journalists. Argumentation in the Newsroom uses ethnographic data from Swiss television and print newsrooms, to shed light on how journalists make decisions regarding the selection and presentation of news items in their daily professional practice.

Contents:

Intro

Argumentation in the Newsroom

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Epigraph

Table of contents

List of figures

List of tables

Acknowledgements

1. Newsmaking as an argumentative context

1.1 Newsroom decision-making

2. Newsmaking

2.1 Discourse analysis

2.2 Sociology

2.2.1 The gatekeeping theory

2.2.2 Newsmaking as routine work

2.3 Media linguistics

3. Argumentation theory

3.1 An overview of the discipline

3.2 Extended Pragma-Dialectics

3.3 On endoxa and enthymemes

3.4 The Argumentum Model of Topics

4. News values

4.1 News values: What we already know, and what still needs to be ascertained

4.2 News values as endoxa of newsmaking: A working hypothesis

5. Context

5.1 Studies on the context of argumentative practices

5.1.1 The pragma-dialectical notion of the activity type

5.1.2 The model of communication context

5.2 The argumentative dimension of activity types

5.3 The Swiss media landscape

5.3.1 The interaction field SRG SSR

5.3.1.1 Tagesschau

5.3.1.2 10vor10

5.3.1.3 Téléjournal

5.3.2 The interaction field Corriere del Ticino

6. Building a corpus

6.1 Progression Analysis

6.2 Corpus and data collection

6.3 Selecting cases for an argumentative analysis of newsroom practices: a rationale

6.3.1 Cases selected - and now what?

7. Case studies

7.1 The editorial conference

7.1.1 Deliberative argumentative discussions in editorial conferences

7.1.2 Evaluative argumentative discussions in editorial conferences

7.1.3 Differences related to the medium

7.1.4 Broadcasting an item on a possible snowfall: The SNOW case

7.1.4.1 Should we broadcast an item on snow?

7.1.4.2 Subordinated issues

7.1.5 Choosing the front-page picture news: the LITF case.

7.1.6 Evaluating choices in a previous issue: the MALI case

7.1.7 Criticizing an established practice: the FORM case

7.2 The cutter-journalist discussion

7.2.1 Plane crash in Indonesia: the YOGI case

7.2.1.1 Who filmed the accident?

7.2.1.2 Are we allowed to say that this video was shot by a passenger?

7.2.1.3 Is the text "at risk of his life he switched on the camera" a journalistically adequate account of the event?

7.2.1.4 Is this video allowed by Téléjournal?

7.3 Collective decision-making and evaluation: What did we find out?

8. Case studies

8.1 Arguing with oneself in the literature

8.2 Annual results of BPS Suisse and UBS: the BANK case

8.2.1 Formulating a good title

8.2.2 Numbers are at the core of financial news

8.3 Irony as a means to convey a message indirectly: the RUMS case

8.4 Individual decision-making and evaluation: what did we find out?

9. Case studies

9.1 Editorials

9.2 Commenting on a speech by David Cameron: the CAME case

9.2.1 Cameron's argumentation

9.2.2 The journalist's argumentation

9.2.3 The journalist's reflection on his writing choices

9.2.3.1 The journalist arguing with himself - live

9.3 Writing an editorial on a confused event: the RAID case

9.3.1 Israel seems to be best prepared to face a collapse of Al-Assad's regime

9.3.2 There is also a humanitarian red alert

9.3.3 The journalist's reflection on his writing choices

9.4 News products: what did we find out?

10. Findings and conclusions

10.1 Empirical findings

10.2 Results of the analysis

10.2.1 Rethinking gatekeeping and news values

10.2.2 Theoretical outcomes for argumentation theory

10.2.3 Newsmakers as an argumentative community

10.3 Coda: possible future development of the research

10.3.1 Designing argumentation in the newsroom.

10.3.2 Integrating argumentation in journalistic training

References

Subject index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.