INTERVIEWS AS COMMUNICATIVE RESOURCES IN NEWS AND CURRENT AFFAIRS BROADCASTS
- 22 January 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journalism Studies
- Vol. 11 (1), 20-35
- https://doi.org/10.1080/14616700903119826
Abstract
This study quantitatively establishes the centrality and importance of interviews in news and current affairs broadcasts. We show how segments of interviews (from soundbites to longer recorded, or live, question-and-answer interactions) are deployed as communicative resources in the construction and presentation of news in various ways. The data allow for a cross-national comparison between the United Kingdom and Sweden which points to differences in practice between the countries. We argue that our findings may be used critically to examine various conceptualisations of broadcast interviews in general and political interviews in particular. We also show how journalists outnumber politicians as interviewees in the news, a finding that is in need of further exploration from a range of perspectives. We also believe that our study provides solid ground on which to base future critical studies of the authority of journalism, dialogical and soundbite journalism, and the alleged fragmentisation of news.Keywords
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