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This document is an interview between Jack Woodward, a football commentator, and Kath Woodward, a sociologist. They discuss their personal experiences as fans of football and the reasons behind their support for their respective teams. Jack shares his memories of attending matches with his father and the excitement of being a fan and commentator. Kath reflects on her late introduction to soccer and the influence of her husband and children in her support for Sheffield Wednesday. They also discuss the thrill of being at live matches and the intensity of fandom. The conversation highlights the emotional attachments and sense of belonging that come with being a football fan. The text discusses the growing popularity and positive direction of women's soccer, highlighting the increasing role models and respect for female players. It also explores the impact of different factors, such as investment and skill development, on creating fandom. The conversation touches on the differences between men's and women's soccer, the joy and escapism that sports provide, and the emotional highs and lows experienced by fans. The importance of being present at games and the unique energy and atmosphere created by fans is also emphasized. [Extracted from the article]

Several studies exploring the sociology of news have identified and established a range of factors that influence journalism and shape media narratives. However, little has been known regarding the narrative construction in the English language broadcast media in India. Therefore, this study investigated the relationship between (re)emerging right-wing nationalism and English language television journalism in India. A qualitative thematic discourse analysis was conducted on the monologues on Republic TV and Times Now's primetime debates during the India–China border conflict, 2020. The study reports a major shift in the nature of TV journalism in India: far from being passive observers of right-wing nationalist ideology in the 1990s, TV journalists in contemporary India are acting as active participants in propagating them. The study complements existing works on sociology of news by demonstrating how journalism is shaped by dominant political sentiments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This project investigates the ethical frameworks in place for Pakistani television news journalists reporting cases of domestic violence. It also examines the provision and structure of training for Pakistani media professionals to support accurate and balanced reporting of such violence. The research comprised in-depth semi-structured interviews with a small group of television journalists. The findings reveal that there was no formalized code of ethics guiding how journalists represent incidents of this crime, its victims, or perpetrators. Moreover, it was revealed that due to a paucity of formal professional development opportunities, journalists negotiate the challenges of reporting domestic violence on-the-job, resulting in instances of irresponsible reporting practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the mid 1970s Black women, and Black feminists in particular, were increasingly visible on television, as they took positions as broadcast journalists and news anchors; starred in dramas and situation comedies, such as Good Times ; and appeared as experts on an array of public affairs programs, including shows developed by Black Power leaders and feminists. This essay examines this rise and the constraints on it by analyzing Black feminists' television activism and their appearances on three programs in the 1970s: two feminist public affairs programs that both aired on PBS stations, Woman (1973–1977) and Woman Alive! (1974, 1975, 1977); and For You Black Woman (1977–1985), a syndicated talk show which was not directly linked to any political movement but was pioneering because it was the first talk show and "public service" program addressed to Black women. Feminist programs— Woman and Woman Alive!— asserted a sisterhood based on gender oppression and encouraged Black women to join it, but they did not consistently address the intersection of race and gender. On the other hand, although For You Black Woman was a more conventional talk show for women, as it focused more on parenting, beauty, and fashion, not feminist or Black Power politics, the show tailored these topics to Black women, discussed race and gender in the distinctive experiences of Black women, and created space for Black women to be experts on a variety of topics. The least explicitly politically program of this triad, For You Black Woman provided a potent political space for Black feminism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Neurotoxin procedures have been increasing in popularity since they were approved for cosmetic use in 2002, with predominately women being treated. Our objectives were to determine likelihood of neurotoxin treatment in television journalists based on demographics and social media popularity. Likelihood of neurotoxin treatment was determined from by grading forehead and glabellar rhytides in videos using a standardized scale. A greater percentage of women vs. men were "likely/highly likely" to have had glabellar (23% vs. 17%, respectively) and forehead neurotoxins (42% vs. 13%, respectively) neurotoxins (both P < 0.05). A greater proportion of anchors vs. non-anchors were "likely/highly likely" to have had glabellar neurotoxins (37% vs. 11%; P < 0.05). In sum, we found that women broadcasters are more likely to pursue neurotoxin treatments compared to male broadcasters and uncovered potential gender-based aesthetic treatment biases in the media industry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to understand how the disinformation about the pandemic context has been affecting the productive routines of journalists from TV Paraíba, an affiliate of Rede Globo in Campina Grande - PB. To carry out this analysis, we bring essential studies on disinformation (WARDLE; DERAKHSHAN, 2017) and post-truth (D'ANCONA, 2018), in addition to taking scholars such as Wolf (1999) and Vizeu (1999) as a guideline. The methodology used was the Case Study, through semi-structured interviews with a qualitative approach. We found that, in the clipping adopted in this work, the level of tension between journalists grew in the face of the responsibility and need for an even more cautious investigation of the facts in an even more restricted time in the face of the urgency and perishability of data related to the pandemic. In addition, it was found that the professional journalist strengthens his pedagogical role before the population, since these professionals are one of those responsible for denying the misleading information that circulates among society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores how the main Spanish newsrooms structure news production in the digital convergence from a quantitative approach. The data come from a nationwide survey applied to 30 editors-in-chief of Spain's leading newspapers, radios, televisions, and digital natives. We study the newsroom size, news sections weight, freelancers, news agencies, and gender with multivariable analysis. We found that the gender gap has been overcome, and women are mostly in newsrooms (61%). Despite progress, women continue to have higher levels of unemployment and keep facing a glass ceiling in accessing the top positions. They just account for only 6.6% of the editors-in-chief in the sample. Likewise, we found a correlation between female journalists and the Society news section size. Findings suggest a specific news production organization by analyzing newsroom journalistic practice. Politics (23%) is the main news section and in decreasing order of importance: Society (18.5%), Business (16.5%), Sport (16.5%), International (14%) and Culture (11.5%). The average newsroom has between 101 and 300 journalists, with less than 20% freelancers. The media industry demands a polyvalent journalist. Skills, abilities, and competencies that different professionals previously developed now converge in a single professional with a polyvalent and multitasking profile. We found that it is a widespread journalistic practice in most TV outlets for reporters to work for several daily editions of newscasts (midday and night) and even provide news content for other organization shows. Journalists no longer work for a specific section, not even for a news show, but they now work for the entire organization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the use of interpersonal touch by television reporters in their interactions with sources — mainly residents and government officials — before Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico. We used a qualitative approach, which allowed four functions to emerge inductively but aligned with concepts from haptics and journalistic roles research. The functions — engagement and participation, empathy and caring, easing tension, and collective empowerment are described in relation to the literature on touch across cultures. Implications for the emotional turn in journalism are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Technological developments in communication technologies have revealed the digitalization of journalism and the transmission of news to different audiences through many channels. Artificial intelligence technologies, which will be shown as an example at this point, have also affected journalism and paved the way for the emergence of new news formats. In this context, in this study, robot journalism was analyzed through videos uploaded to YouTube, a news sharing platform, by exemplifying the robot announcers. In the study, in which the content analysis method was used, the attitudes of different users towards the relationship between artificial intelligence and news were analyzed in the light of the comments received by a male and female robot newscaster, that has been loaded videos in Turkish and English. It has been seen that the comments obtained as a result of the research differ depending on the gender of the robot announcer, the sexist discourse against the female robot announcer is dominant, artificial intelligence technologies are thought to bring the end of many professions, and most of the users do not have a positive opinion against the use of artificial intelligence in the news. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A unique collaboration between West German television journalists and the Israeli journalist Vera Elyashiv led to the production of the documentary film Mit den Augen einer Israeli: Beobachtungen in der Bundesrepublik (1962, Through the Eyes of an Israeli: Observations on the German Federal Republic). I argue that this hitherto neglected film conveys an exceptional image of West Germany toward the end of the Adenauer era that challenges the concept of "the new Germany." This article explores the film in the historical-political context of its production and screening, focusing on Elyashiv's decision to maintain the ambiguity of her biography as a Holocaust survivor while formulating an indictment of contemporary German society and its political leadership. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With the aim of understanding solidities and disturbances in journalism as a belief system, the study investigates how television journalists in Slovenia have been re-articulating their roles against normative principles, professional ideals, and media performance during the COVID-19 lockdown. As procedures and forms of television news production were importantly re-configured, analysis of qualitative interviews with editors and journalists reveals eclecticism in journalistic roles, re-articulated in the connections between journalism, power and the public, leading to contradictory assessments with respect to journalism's autonomy and responsibility. While the salience of the dominant monitorial role, referring to the journalistic provision of "objective" news and the surveillance of power on behalf of the public, was initially evident, deeper analysis showed not only a variety and disagreement concerning, but also paradoxes in, perceptions that resemble facilitative and collaborative roles. These findings reflect a particular manifestation of historical contradictions in Slovenian journalism's relationship to power and the public during the public safety crisis and the many social contingencies during the lockdown. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resultant social distancing measures offer a compelling context through which to understand the changing relationship between journalism and place. Through an ethnography of news making at a major Indonesian news broadcaster, this study explored the material settings of news making during the pandemic and the consequences of the place-based realignments on journalistic practice, professionalism, and authority. Four main findings emerged. First, we found that as far as broadcast journalists are concerned there are no alternatives to the newsroom; making news in the newsroom was synonymous with their professional journalistic identity. A second finding is to highlight the key role of place in shaping press-source relations. In our case, the loss of physical proximity to government sources had major consequences for power relations between journalists and authorities. Third, certain news objects held particular meaning for journalists, and that when disrupted, can have deleterious consequences for their professional identity. Finally, our study witnessed an important shift in journalistic routines that favoured the live field report over pre-recorded packages or in-depth analysis. Findings are discussed in the context of ongoing debates about journalistic routines, identities, and the "material turn" in journalism studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This document discusses the importance of maintaining integrity and authenticity in scientific research and publication. It draws parallels between the battle for freedom of the press during McCarthyism and the ongoing efforts of medical journals to ensure the validity of the papers they publish. The document highlights the role of peer review in maintaining quality and discusses the limitations of the process. The author concludes by announcing their departure as editor in chief of Climacteric and expressing gratitude to those who have supported them. [Extracted from the article]

Research indicates that TV news journalists' ongoing exposure to trauma can result in psychopathology. However, we currently know little about potential differences in trauma exposure between individuals in varying journalistic roles. The aim of this study is to contextualize the existing knowledge of psychological outcomes for TV news journalists and to complement current deductive trends in literature by asking: How do TV news journalists of differing roles and responsibilities experience unique factors that ultimately influence their trauma exposure? Individuals in journalistic roles that experience differences in their exposure to trauma compared to other roles, may be at risk of elevated psychopathology or in need of greater support to prevent distress. A social constructivist approach was adopted and in-depth interviews were conducted with 21 Australian TV news camera-operators and reporters. Analysis was conducted according to a systematic and transparent thematic analysis. The findings suggest that TV news camera operators and reporters experience differences in: (1) experiences of industry culture within organizational hierarchy, (2) role expectations of physical proximity to trauma, and (3) social visibility during trauma exposure. By considering role-based differences, this study recommends resources and support necessary for reporters and camera operators. The present findings inform news organizations providing support for their staff, and news consumers of the circumstances under which news workers perform roles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigates television weather forecasters' role in leading discussions about climate change. It focuses on Miami, a city that has become a symbol of climate change's effects in local, national and international imaginations. Most studies of climate change communication focus on the transmission of information from one group to another, such as from scientists to the lay public, but they do not capture the ways that climate knowledge can become part of everyday community life. This paper uses the case of TV weather reporters, or weathercasters, in Miami to investigate their roles as both participants in and instigators of 'community ritual'. I combine James Carey's concepts of communication as transmission and ritual with Candis Callison's description of climate change vernaculars to show that ritual and community-building are just as important in facilitating the acceptance of talking about climate change as the broadcasting of scientific concepts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper identifies three main aspects of emotional engagement in journalistic news practice and outlines moments of tension between journalistic principles and (imagined) audience expectations. It investigates the relationship between emotionally (dis)engaging elements featured in television news coverage, and the rationale behind their deployment by journalists. In doing this, the article aims to address both journalism content and production dimension. It combines two qualitative approaches. This comprises semi-structured interviews conducted with around 50 journalists across both countries, supported by a close reading of TV news. The study is set within a cross-national comparative framework of two very different television cultures – the United Kingdom and India, where debates about emotional engagement contrasts a strongly regulated public service television market in the UK standing against highly competitive commercial 24-hour news programmes in India. The study presents how journalists imagine news programmes today. By highlighting journalistic practices outside of the normative model of Anglo-American journalism, this paper also seeks to include a de-Westernizing perspective within journalism studies. The paper will show that despite defending "classical" professional principles and news values, journalists across borders consider engagement and emotionalizing elements as indispensable in linking to audiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyses media coverage of the explosion in Beirut on August 4, 2020. It questions the national and transnational dimensions of television production in France and Russia. The article describes the logic of the construction of the news that proves to be transnational : the transnational format of the newspaper, the similar device, the choice of images. Television is therefore subject to a transnational model of news construction. But the treatment of the Lebanese event gradually become nationally oriented. The presence of national figures proves it. The newscaster plays a crucial role in media construction. It is comparable from one national context to another. But the figure of the presenter also reveals the national perception of the media. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through textual analysis of Facebook comments on the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation's (ZBC) page, ZBC-TV News Online and Twitter hashtag, #RIPJudithMakwanya, the study explores how ordinary people remembered the station's veteran broadcaster upon her death in 2019. This was combined with interviews to understand journalists' reactions to the commentary. The study argues that digital platforms now allow press criticism on a public forum, enabling citizens to form their own interpretive communities and police each other. However, political economy factors undermine press criticism's effectiveness in shaping journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Moderating, managing a political debate, and presenting the results of the electoral count are today's new challenges for informants on television. The new ways of consumption and content generation by audiences themselves, as well as the grow-ing importance of social networks’ disseminating role, are changing formats and channels which enrich TV frameworks, promote innovation and help receivers to un-derstand and analyze TV data in a new light. New technologies have broadened the range of possibilities on the television scene. Constantly evolving tools allow the production of virtual content improving the visu-alization and understanding of data. These new resources also serve as support for journalists in information broadcasting, who use digital methods that reinforce mul-timodal communication. In recent years, Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR) and 360-degree Video have landed in the Spanish media to promote information of a different nature. In the specific case of political information on television, Augmented Reality offers the opportunity to represent and virtually show those elements that are not present on the television scene, surpassing the limits of the physical world. This paper analyzes the application and potential of Augmented Reality in televised electoral debates in Spain, specifically during the scrutiny day of the general elec-tions of November 10, 2019 (10- N). This analysis shows how the political debate was forged in the new television sphere of five networks -Antena 3, La Sexta, TVE, Telemadrid and TV3- between 7:30 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., and its symbiosis with new technological tools to capture the audience at a time of maximum competitiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background: Journalists covering traumatic news events can develop symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). However, they may also experience perceived post-traumatic growth (PTG). The outcome may be affected by whether work-related traumatic stress has a degree of personal risk. Objective: To investigate the relationship between PTSD symptoms and PTG among journalists who experienced work-related trauma and to examine whether positive associations would exist between exposure to personal risk and PTG. Method: A web-based survey measuring post-traumatic stress symptoms and post-traumatic growth was completed by print and broadcast journalists (N = 69) working for UK-based media organizations. An open-ended question asked participants how media organizations can help to promote growth after work-related trauma. Results: The findings show a significant relationship between PTSD symptoms and PTG (p = 0.04). Journalists working in war-zones had significantly more PTSD symptoms (p <.001) and PTG scores (p <.001) than those who did not. Journalists who described their worst, work-related trauma as having a degree of personal, life-threatening risk, also reported higher levels of PTG than those who did not (p <.001). This was consistent across all PTG subscales. Conclusions: This study, the first to examine PTSD symptoms, personal risk and post-traumatic growth within journalists, suggests those working in conflict areas experience significantly higher levels of post-traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth, than those who do not. Those who experience personal risk also had high PTG levels. Media companies can help develop PTG by recognizing when personal risk plays a role in covering demanding assignments. Participants suggested organizations also needed to allow sufficient time for reflection and meaning-making for all those working in hostile environments. • This is the first study examining PTSD and post-traumatic growth (PTG) in UK journalists experiencing work-related trauma with personal risk. • Those in war zones showed more PTSD symptoms and higher PTG. • Journalists called for time and support to reflect after traumatic events. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this research is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on the work of journalists in the city of Loja. The approach used is qualitative, it allows a deep analysis of the subjective and intersubjective meanings that are part of the realities of journalistic work. The study sample is intentional, it is made up of 10 journalists, including 5 radio communicators and 5 television reporters linked to the different media in the city. The instruments used for data collection were: the website of the Information and Communication Council of Ecuador (CORDICOM), semi-structured interview and digital tracking of the data disseminated on their personal social networks of the participating journalists. The results show that in emergency contexts: a) the use of virtual platforms is essential for remote work, b) distancing due to Covid-19 affects journalistic work, but it is not the only cause c) due to health crisis, journalists and reporters are concerned about job uncertainty, the risk to their health and the emotional impacts of coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Gwen Ifill (1955–2016) was a dedicated viewer of The Huntley-Brinkley Report during her formative years, often witnessing footage of the Civil Rights Movement—images that her father would supplement with his own accounts of participating in marches. She felt an early pull towards journalism and writing, but didn't anticipate a career in television. Ifill went on to work at NBC News, PBS NewsHour, and PBS's Washington Week—at the latter as the program's first female African-American moderator. Hers was a valued voice in television journalism, silenced too soon by her untimely passing at the age of sixty-one. Karen Herman conducted the interview on October 20, 2011, in Washington, D.C. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the response of European Public Service Media to the crisis caused by Covid-19, especially the impact of the pandemic on Europe's major public broadcasters, with a particular focus on technical and professional constraints, alterations in audience volume and habits, production strategies, type of broadcast content and journalists' routines. The research is based on public information from the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and 19 in-depth, structured interviews with a convenience sample of innovation and strategy managers from public broadcasters in Austria (ORF), Belgium (VRT and RTBF), Denmark (DR), Finland (YLE), France (France TV), Germany (ARD and ZDF), Great Britain (BBC), Ireland (RTÉ), Italy (RAI), Netherlands (NPO), Portugal (RTP), Spain (RTVE), Sweden (SVT), Switzerland (RTS) and the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). The results indicate that the corporate projection of PSM was increased by emphasising their role as essential services and their defence of the values that characterise them. The pandemic forced the adaptation of programme production from technical standards to an emotional approach, accelerating a formal hybridisation with native online contents. Dependence on software grew and newsmaking processes were altered towards 'remote journalism'. Changes are drawn that may be maintained in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I report the results of in‐depth interviews with 30 Muslim women working in the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting Organization (IRIB), illuminating the challenges that women negotiate and their aspirations in a male‐dominant work environment. Two main challenges were identified: (a) the gender‐unequal stratification of work positions and opportunities, and (b) the complexity of work‐required physical proximity and observance of religious codes of conduct. Although some participants seemed resigned to the power of the gender order that privileged men and focused on performing their professional duties, others actively struggled with gender discrimination to prove themselves as equally competent as men and transform the work culture. Overall, the results highlight these women's agency in accepting and contesting dominant gendered norms, structures, and practices. The enactment of such agency also shows that the gender order is not immutable, but is relational and dynamic, and thus open to change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article addresses the phenomenon of "celebrification" in the construction of the digital identity of Ecuadorian television journalists on digital platforms, specifically on Instagram. From the main contributions of celebrity studies and political marketing, three variables have been identified that allow the recognition and understanding of celebrification. These features are used to perform an analysis of the contents of the accounts of six journalists during three months of the year 2019. The results show the characteristics of the "celebraficated" content as part of the digital identity of the journalists analyzed and their relationship with the classic paradigms of journalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyses the transnational production processes of foreign correspondence in the Cold War. It examines the double role of foreign correspondents as reporters and Cold War political agents. Recent scholarship has explored the activities of Western correspondents reporting from the Communist world. Little is known, however, about Eastern bloc correspondents in the West. Drawing on the rarely studied files on East German foreign correspondents held by the Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv, the article problematizes the image of GDR journalists as obedient intelligence officers and highlights the dilemmas of journalists deployed to defend national interests. Focusing on the Nordic countries in the mid1970s, the article provides detailed insights into the politics and practices of East German foreign correspondence before the digital revolution. The article thus shows the benefits of going beyond the traditional focus on media content to analyse the daily practices as well as the political and symbolic significance of journalism. It contributes to the growing historical research on foreign correspondents and the media in East Germany and beyond. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we analyzed speeches delivered by five women newscasters on the following television stations in Paraná: BAND, RIC, Rede Massa and RPC; based on the theoreticians of the work universe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, from Discourse Analysis, Michel Foucault and from gender discussions, Helena Hirata, in order to understand if there is a common profile of women journalists, seeking to delimit reasons that can contribute to the establishment of an identity constructed from the convergent speeches of the interviewees. From the data collected, we found that the presence of women in the news media is concrete and substantive, since they star in programs at prime times. However, there are many factors that make it difficult to ascend to positions of prestige or visibility, such as Management or Direction. Motherhood, the aesthetic standard, and the ideological constructions in which society is based, were reported to be responsible for hindering the work trajectory. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this study is to explore how local broadcast news stations use user-generated content (UGC), and what opinions producers at these stations have toward UGC. Studying local news stations' use of UGC is important because it offers insight into the challenging ethical, legal, commercial and professional issues that broadcasters must consider when deciding whether and how to use UGC in general or certain types of UGC in particular. To conduct its analysis, this article builds its theoretical foundation using theories from the field of journalistic boundary work. The study relies on exploratory data from a Qualtrics survey, which was both administered in person and sent via email to news directors and producers at local broadcast news stations in the United States. Findings reveal that local broadcasters enjoy a uniquely high degree of flexibility to engage in boundary work, particularly through their ability to distinguish between the roles UGC can play within the more professional platform of newscasts and the more participatory online platform. Participants also reported following high ethical standards for using UGC. These findings suggest that local broadcast journalists can play a unique and exemplary role in shaping the boundaries between professional and amateur content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Larry Foley NINE: A Journal of Baseball History and Culture, Volume 28, Numbers 1-2, Fall-Spring 2019-2020, pp. 45-48 (Article) Published by University of Nebraska Press DOI: For additional information about this article [ Access provided at 25 Feb 2021 04:29 GMT from Ebsco Publishing ] https://doi.org/10.1353/nin.2019.0011 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/781935 Larry Foley They were the summers of my dreams - and I dream of them still. And I'll never drink another Shasta cola without thinking of that spring day when a baseball Hall of Famer saved my friend and me from heatstroke. We made our way back to the bench and the three of us enjoyed our sparkling Shasta's, shooting the breeze with the baseball legend. [Extracted from the article]