The Construction of Environmental News
eBook - ePub

The Construction of Environmental News

A Study of Scottish Journalism

  1. 200 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Construction of Environmental News

A Study of Scottish Journalism

About this book

First published in 1999, this volume is drawn from a 1992-1996 study and seeks to explain the news process used to identify a newsworthy issue and its application to understanding the construction of environmental news. Drawing upon information retrieval and dissemination via journalists, newspapers, television and radio stations, Fiona Campbell examines the co-existence of two extreme, different professions for a common aim. She argues that environmental information is pluralistic and complex, holding information meanings inherent in it, and that environmental news is a version of interpreted environmental information.

Campbell discusses the idea that information changes as journalists gather, interpret and disseminate environmental information. A model is included, which describes the flow of environmental information in the media and shows that journalists retrieve information from a complex range of sources and repackage it in a simplified format. Campbell investigates the ways in which reporters routines their work procedures and how they apply the rules implicit in the news process. It examines the techniques used by journalists to evaluate news potential in environmental issues, the practices used to gather information and the methods employed to construct the news.

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Information

Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781138342583
eBook ISBN
9780429800818

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figure
  7. List of Table
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. List of Abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. A Note on Methodology
  12. 1 News and Information
  13. 2 News Construction Model
  14. 3 Subject Specialists
  15. 4 The Journalistic Rules for Constructing News
  16. 5 The Editorial Rules
  17. 6 News Evaluation
  18. 7 Operational Rules
  19. 8 Constructional/Interpretive Rules
  20. Conclusions
  21. Appendix I Case Scenarios
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index