Television journalism, crime news and sourcing practices: Findings from Argentina

This paper presents the results of a research project on the new modes of production of television crime news. The enquiry involved monitoring television newscasts of the five major channels in Buenos Aires City and interviews with news workers. We analyze the news content, the ways of narrating and...

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Autores: Calzado, Mercedes, Lio, Vanesa
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:Argentina
Institución:Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación
Repositorio:Memoria Académica (UNLP-FAHCE)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar:snrd:Jpr16328
Acceso en línea:https://www.memoria.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/art_revistas/pr.16328/pr.16328.pdf
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Ciencias sociales
Crime news
Media
Television
Newscast
Argentina
Notícias policiais
Mídia
Televisão
Telejornais
Descripción
Sumario:This paper presents the results of a research project on the new modes of production of television crime news. The enquiry involved monitoring television newscasts of the five major channels in Buenos Aires City and interviews with news workers. We analyze the news content, the ways of narrating and enunciating crime news on television, the role played by the police in the structure of the news, the emergence of new sources of information and the production routines of crime news. Our findings suggest that most of the newscasts on television give prominence to crime news within their agendas and that its production and presentation has changed as the result of the spread of digital technologies as sources of information.