Choosing the News : How Newspaper Editors Define Newsworthy and Decide on Front Page Stories

ISBN-13: 9783639080308 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 160 str.

Elaine Gale

Opis

We often see a newspaper s front page and wonderabout the choices that were made to elevate a certainstory above another. Why does Britney Spears end upon the cover and above-the-fold while news of local,national or international importance is buriedinside? Why do newspaper editors choose the news thatthey do? In this book, Dr. Elaine Gale, a formerjournalist with a ten-year career in the newspaperbusiness, dissects exactly why newspaper editors makethe choices they do in assembling a daily newspaper.This book presents her findings from observing andrecording over thirty newsroom meetings at a majormetropolitan daily newspaper in the United Stateswhere top editors of the paper gathered togethertwice a day to discuss the next day s paper. Theeditors engaged in daily choices about what wasnewsworthy and what wasn t. Gale examines the themesthat emerged in their decision-making as she listenedto and transcribed the talk in the newsroom meetings.She shares both what goes through an editor s mindgenerally when planning the next day's paper, andalso the specific recipe for cooking up the frontpage as revealed during the talk in the dailyeditors meetings.

O autorze

Elaine Gale, PhD in Human Communication from University of Denver
and MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, is an
assistant professor at California State University, Sacramento,
and a freelance writer. She was a religion reporter for the Los
Angeles Times and an advice columnist and pop culture reporter at
the Minneapolis Star Tribune.