MDSA01H3 Lecture 3: MDSAchpt3
Document Summary
Informational bias the journalistic predisposition that governs how a story is structured and told; four informational biases are dramatized, personalized, fragmented, and authority-disorder. Journalistic beats the places and institutions where new is regularly expected to occur. News the media product produced by the organization structures and practices of journalism. New agencies corporations that produce and sell stories to other new providers or non-profit cooperatives, which work with large media companies to generate news centrally and distribute it locally. Objectivity the reporting of facts in an impartial manner. Organizational culture the set(s) or norms and customs, artifacts and events, and values and assumptions that emerge as a consequence of organizational members communicative practices. Organizations a system (network) of ordered relationships and coordinated activities directed toward specific goals. Press release a strategically prepared written or recorded statement produced for news organizations to announce something that claims to be news worthy.
