Elaine Gale

Choosing the News

How Newspaper Editors Define Newsworthy and Decide on Front Page Stories

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

We often see a newspaper s front page and wonder
about the choices that were made to elevate a certain
story above another. Why does Britney Spears end up
on the cover and above-the-fold while news of local,
national or international importance is buried
inside? Why do newspaper editors choose the news that
they do? In this book, Dr. Elaine Gale, a former
journalist with a ten-year career in the newspaper
business, dissects exactly why newspaper editors make
the choices they do in assembling a daily newspaper.
This book presents her findings from observing and
recording over thirty newsroom meetings at a major
metropolitan daily newspaper in the United States
where top editors of the paper gathered together
twice a day to discuss the next day s paper. The
editors engaged in daily choices about what was
newsworthy and what wasn t. Gale examines the themes
that emerged in their decision-making as she listened
to and transcribed the talk in the newsroom meetings.
She shares both what goes through an editor s mind
generally when planning the next day's paper, and
also the specific recipe for cooking up the front
page as revealed during the talk in the daily
editors meetings.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783639080308
• ISBN-10: 3639080300
• Artikelnr.: 25951153

Autorenporträt

Elaine Gale, PhD in Human Communication from University of Denver
and MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University, is an
assistant professor at California State University, Sacramento,
and a freelance writer. She was a religion reporter for the Los
Angeles Times and an advice columnist and pop culture reporter at
the Minneapolis Star Tribune.