Title: Correspondents’ Perceptions and Interactions with DC Sources
Abstract: This chapter explains how social relations between politicians and correspondents shape what is on the news and, more specifically, how the relationship between correspondents and their sources matters for how a politician is portrayed in the news. As an element of transnational journalism culture, the cognitive aspect and practice of news gathering evolves as a first component of understanding the source-reporter relationship in DC. At a cognitive level, journalistic cultures are expressed through the perception and interpretation of sources. In the DC case, the cognitive level examines how the cultural background of US and foreign correspondents influences their perceptions of politicians' credibility and newsworthiness. What are the patterns of how journalists perceive politicians? How do their cultural backgrounds influence the perception of politicians' credibility? This might be less a question of journalistic culture and more of culture per se. Donsbach (1987) recognized that subjective factors such as culture also matter for the news content that media professionals produce. Journalists' perceptions materialize in their work and in their methods of reporting through professional performance (Hanitzsch, 2007a). Here again, personal characteristics might influence their professional performance, such as the journalists' foreign status limiting their access to White House press conferences. However, subjective factors such as cultural background are becoming part of their journalism culture, shaping their daily job duties.Keywords21st CenturyCultural CapitalNews SourceNews ContentPress FreedomThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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