News production theory and practice

This paper considers notions of agency, interaction and power in business news journalism. In the first part, we present a bird’s eye view access theory as it is reflected selected sociological anthropological literature on ethnography production. Next, show how these theoretical can be applied to study press releases particularly linguistic pragmatic analysis specific social textual practices that surround their transformation into reports. Drawing fieldwork data collected at desk major Flemish quality newspaper, an innovative methodology combining newsroom computer-assisted writing process which documents reporter discovers story, introduces newsroom, writes reflects it. doing so, put individual journalist’s center stage, zoom ways he interacts with sources conceptualize terms his dependence releases. Following Beeman & Peterson (2001), argue favor journalism ‘interpretive practice’ production entextualization involving multiple actors who struggle over authority, ownership control.