Media Organizations and Professionals

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Media Organizations and Professionals

• The organization of work
• Occupational roles and professional
  socialization
• Hits, stars and decision making

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Media Organizations and Professionals
What is newsworthy?

1. Timely
2. Topical
3. Prominence
4. Proximate
5. Human Interest
6. Conflict
7. Novel/Deviant

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Media Organizations and Professionals
News and Documentary as signifying systems

• News as observer and reporter
• The myth of reality
• The myth of objectivity/neutrality
• Production techniques
• The myth of experts
• Statistics, more statistics and damned lies

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Media Organizations and Professionals