SOCIOL 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Toronto Star
12 Feb 2014
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They do not want to waste time and money. Conventions emerged instead of letting journalists look for news stories, conventions for news gathering were established. These conventions for news gathering tell journalists where to look for news each day. They learn them through the process of professional socialization. First of all, they learn things in journalism school a lot of journalists go to school and spend two to four years learning how to do their work. They also learn conventions in the workplace. Hall, interview politicians and the journalist will also get information from the media relations staff at city hall. Robert a. hackett and richard gruneau (the missing news: filters and blind spots in. Canada"s press: research questions, what news filters are shaping canada"s press. Blind spots: publicly-significant information about the world that systematically gets omitted from the news: research methodology, use of interviews. Interviews were done entirely with journalists who worked in media outlets in toronto: survey questionnaire.
