Television Reporters and Producers as Journalists.

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Conrad; Becker, Lee B.
Titel	Television Reporters and Producers as Journalists.
Quelle	(1988), (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Broadcast Industry; Comparative Analysis; News Media; News Reporting; Popular Culture; Television; Television Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Nachrichtenwesen; News report; Reportage; Popkultur; Fernsehen; Fernsehtechnik
Abstract	According to a new myth in the television broadcasting industry, the producer has become the representative of the show business side of news production, while the reporter has remained the protector of the more noble goals of journalism in the television newsroom. To explore the dimensions of this myth, a study examined data, available from a national sample of television reporters and news producers, to determine the differences between these two groups of broadcast journalists in terms of professional training, motivations for pursuing careers in broadcast journalism, their career plans, and the manner in which they would handle a hypothetical news decision. Subjects, 512 reporters (out of a sample of 793) and 126 producers (out of a sample of 199), randomly selected, were asked about their attitudes towards television news and for demographic information. Results showed that producers were less critical than reporters of their stations' newscasts and that producers were also likely to have pursued television news careers for more pragmatic and less idealistic reasons than reporters. However, there was little evidence that reporters are fighting for the journalistic integrity of television news against producers who are interested only in the show-business aspects of television. (Thirty-eight notes and six tables of data are included.) (MS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC